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Every industry requires health and safety expertise, and every company is looking for a specific skill-set, that's why we have a specialist recruitment team focused on Health & Safety recruitment. This allows our Health & Safety Recruiters to expertly understand the operating environments of our clients and to meet their specific needs.

From Construction expertise around large infrastructure projects to Corporate HSE roles encompassing a wide range of industries from retail to leisure, telecoms to finance - our HSEQ Recruitment Consultants are specialists and recruit at all levels, ensuring that each client and candidate receives a dedicated and well informed service.

Key specialisms include: Health and Safety Construction, CDM, Corporate HSE, Quality, Risk, Fire Engineering, Auditing and Compliance, Occupational Health & Hygiene and Wellbeing - in fact the whole spectrum of the H&S field!

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Watershed Review for Construction Health and Safety

Following the publication of Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘Building a safer future’ report, which James Brokenshire, Housing Minster described as a ‘watershed’ for construction safety, there have been calls for the report to have gone further. The review makes it clear that the current system is not fit for purpose and calls for major reform and a change of culture within construction and government. Greater clarity and accountability are required and the recommendations include the development of a single enforcement agency and a new regulatory framework with stronger oversight of duty holders to ensure they meet required standards. Safety needs to be built into the construction, refurbishment and on-going maintenance of high-rise buildings, with sanctions to address irresponsible management. However, many construction organisations have called for more radical reform, specifically, a ban on the use of combustible materials in the construction of high-rise buildings. The Construction Industry Council, RIBA and The British Safety Council have all said that they support a ban on combustible cladding, as part of a joined-up approach to tacking fire safety within high-rise buildings. The CIC goes further and recommends that the ban should not be restricted to just high rise residential buildings, but should apply to all buildings over 18 metres in height and RIBA have called for a blanket ban. Just last week, a ban came into place in Australia, NSW where they have stopped the use of aluminium composite panels with a core comprised of more than 30 percent polyethylene in external cladding. Corporations will be fined up to $1.1m AUD and individuals up to $222,000 AUD if they fail to adhere to this ruling. This is a direct result of the Grenfell Tower disaster last year and the Lacrosse tower fire in Melbourne in 2014, and we await similar legislation in the UK. Dame Hackitt’s report has set the ball rolling, it is now for the government to legislate to protect people within their homes. If you are looking to recruit for fire safety or any other role across health, safety or compliance, please contact Jack Cornick at ALLEN & YORK +44(0)1202 888 986 Here are our latest health and safety jobs