This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the development of UK technical positions, deliver new and expanded regulatory functions, and work with a variety of national and international organisations and experts.

You will provide expert knowledge in occupational hygiene and experience of chemicals exposure assessment to support the development of regulatory positions on chemicals and decision making in our national regulatory schemes, with a specific focus on REACH. Within this regulatory framework you will contribute to the evaluation of substances, the development of restriction proposals and the processing of applications from industry for authorisation to use selected substances of very high concern.

The work may sometimes include consumer exposure assessment, although the main aspect for this post will relate to occupational exposure assessment and control mechanisms. You will take account of exposure data and apply appropriate exposure modelling tools.

You will write up your expert opinions and be expected to explain any key decisions made internally and externally, to independent scientists, other government departments and relevant stakeholders.

You will be responsible for providing advice and guidance, and delivering training, to internal and external stakeholders on relevant aspects of risk assessment. This may be both in the specialist area of chemical exposure and occupational hygiene, and in the general REACH regulatory framework for managing the health risks posed by chemicals.

No laboratory or field work is involved in these roles; data is provided in regulatory submissions from duty holders, gathered from the literature, or generated using models. However, you will be encouraged to develop networks within the wider professional community of toxicologists.

Regulatory toxicologists in CRD responsible for the assessment of the human health hazards and risks of a range of chemicals, including general chemicals, pesticides and biocides and their formulations. These are performed to ensure these chemicals are regulated in line with legislative requirements and safety standards. Depending on the scope of their work, specialist toxicologists are located in either the Toxicology or REACH teams in CRD.

Working in one of these teams, you will be at the forefront of shaping and delivering technical assessments in the new regulatory programmes created with the UK having left the EU. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the development of UK technical positions, deliver new and expanded regulatory functions, and work with a variety of national and international organisations and experts. Depending on the post taken, this may focus on the active substances and products we regulate within the regulatory frameworks for plant protection products and biocides. Alternatively you may take a leading role in the evaluation, authorisation or restriction of chemical substances under the REACH Regulation, or hazard classification as defined by the CLP Regulation.

You will be expected to explain your decisions internally and externally, to expert committees, other
government departments and relevant stakeholders.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Head of Commercial Training to lead the Training team within our Commercial Capability Group located in Buxton, Derbyshire. – a world leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government.

HSE has set ambitious targets for growing externally sourced revenue. The Commercial Capability Group in HSE’s Science Division is responsible for identifying and securing externally funded projects. Within this group, the Head of Commercial Training role is focused on developing commercial opportunities for training to generate external revenue for HSE. Working closely with the wider commercial team and operational staff across the division, the Head of Commercial Training will act as a key link to clients and partners to understand their requirements, commercially qualify opportunities and present back appropriate training products and services to meet these requirements.

The scope of our important work requires a dedicated individual to lead the development of the Training Business, responding to market trends and opportunities, proactively developing internal and external partnerships to support training delivery whilst ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction. This is an excellent opportunity to work collaboratively across HSE and Industry to support HSE’s essential commercial activities.

For more information if you wish to apply for this role please use the link below.

The government has asked HSE to establish a new building safety regulator in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. The new regulator will oversee the safe design, construction and occupation of high-risk.

This exciting opportunity will be based in the Science Division of HSE at our state of the art Science and Research centre, in Buxton, Derbyshire.

This vacancy is for a Scientist to join our Risk and Process Safety Team in the Risk and Human Factors Capability Group. The Risk and Process safety Team carry out a range of work including assessment of safety cases in the chemical process, offshore oil and gas and gas distribution sectors; providing bespoke advice and consultancy to a range of industries; research projects; and providing technical training.

The Team’s main expertise lies in hazard identification, risk assessment and identification of suitable risk reduction measures to reduce the risk as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). The Team apply their skills to assure safe operation in a wide range of application areas such as: high rise residential buildings, energy supply including emerging green energy technologies, asset integrity, supporting development of safety case approaches. Recent research carried out by the team spans topics such as coronavirus transmission to contributing to the UK net zero carbon targets.