Approx cost of an on-site H&S consultant per day/week?

[movietub]

We have a project we are costing that requires we supply our own on site H&S consultant. Every other job we have done we have had a single consultant provided by the main contractor for the whole site...

Anyone any idea how much it costs to bring one in for a few weeks? I have emailed a few agencies but I need a rough price within the next 60 mins!!!

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[vvaannmmaann]

These people mention money.
Various costs,but they seem to start at from £250 per day!
http://www.qhs-solutions.com/health.html

 

[movietub]

These people mention money.
Various costs,but they seem to start at from £250 per day!
http://www.qhs-solutions.com/health.html

I read that as £350 per day! I'm sure all the H&S consultants I have met don't take home half of that each day...

I was thinking of sticking in £1500 per 5 day week for this. Sounds a like I was about right - if I haggle a little.

 

[The Tender Writer]

You should get one ok for that price. Just make sure that they have the necessary experience and recent qualifications. There are loads of them springing up but many have no experience. Good luck

 

[movietub]

Thanks guys.

I have just sent the tender back. It's a 100k+ job so if I'm a few hundred out I can absorb it (or keep it )!

Cheers for the very rapid help - always amazes me how quickly a question gets answered on these boards.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

My invoice is on the way.

 

[The Tender Writer]

My invoice is on the way.

Mine too

 

[movietub]

My invoice is on the way.

Nice. Just so you know my cost for reading an invoice is £500 per minute.

Let me know if you would rather I ignored it

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Given what I charge,I can absorb that!

 

[SafetyOracle]

I'm a chartered H&S consultant (CMIOSH). You should very wary of employing anyone to advise you on H&S unless they are chartered. Like any other profession, you get what you pay for! After all, would you consult an unqualified doctor, dentist, accountant or solicitor?

Anyhow, sorry I didn't see your message earlier as I might have been able to help. Just for reference, H&S consultants' charges vary greatly. There are plenty of construction site safety people out there, but if you want some other expertise you'll find them less common. You might need to pay more (e.g. nuclear, bio, sewage treatment, lasers, radioactives, aeronautics, marine, petrochemicals, explosives, noise assessment, etc). Also, training delivery generally comes cheaper than task-specific advice, auditing, inspection, risk assessment, policy writing, etc. Factor in travelling costs, specialist equipment use, hotels, etc. In short, to get a realistic price, we need a little more detail!

Good luck with the project, whatever it is!

SafetyOracle

 

[movietub]

I'm a chartered H&S consultant (CMIOSH). You should very wary of employing anyone to advise you on H&S unless they are chartered. Like any other profession, you get what you pay for! After all, would you consult an unqualified doctor, dentist, accountant or solicitor?

Anyhow, sorry I didn't see your message earlier as I might have been able to help. Just for reference, H&S consultants' charges vary greatly. There are plenty of construction site safety people out there, but if you want some other expertise you'll find them less common. You might need to pay more (e.g. nuclear, bio, sewage treatment, lasers, radioactives, aeronautics, marine, petrochemicals, explosives, noise assessment, etc). Also, training delivery generally comes cheaper than task-specific advice, auditing, inspection, risk assessment, policy writing, etc. Factor in travelling costs, specialist equipment use, hotels, etc. In short, to get a realistic price, we need a little more detail!

Good luck with the project, whatever it is!

SafetyOracle

I know its very vague, sorry. It's one of those occasions when we had to get a budget price in quickly though, so we made it very clear that it would all be extremely approximate.

Closing comment was 'The breakdown of approximate prices for each element suggests that, for discussion purposes, the project has a price tag of circa £100k. However, as we move forwards this estimate could move either side of that figure by some considerable margin'.

In other words - don't ask us to price a large project with 4 hours notice

To be honest we barely need the H&S person as there is no lifting gear, no chemicals we aren't already trained to use, no ladders, no plant, no holes in the ground and only small hand and power tools which we could all make good argument we are more than competent to use. But it's for the Olympic committee so as a result each team, working in a very small area, must bring their own consultant. I imagine then there will be at least 20 consultants working within clear site of each other during the work.

Do H&S consultants respect each others turf??

 

[SafetyOracle]

I know its very vague, sorry. It's one of those occasions when we had to get a budget price in quickly though, so we made it very clear that it would all be extremely approximate.

Closing comment was 'The breakdown of approximate prices for each element suggests that, for discussion purposes, the project has a price tag of circa £100k. However, as we move forwards this estimate could move either side of that figure by some considerable margin'.

In other words - don't ask us to price a large project with 4 hours notice

To be honest we barely need the H&S person as there is no lifting gear, no chemicals we aren't already trained to use, no ladders, no plant, no holes in the ground and only small hand and power tools which we could all make good argument we are more than competent to use. But it's for the Olympic committee so as a result each team, working in a very small area, must bring their own consultant. I imagine then there will be at least 20 consultants working within clear site of each other during the work.

Do H&S consultants respect each others turf??

I can understand why some projects need contractors to engage their own H&S consultants - sometimes there are very good reasons for this. However, when they then ask you to price a job in under four hours, you wonder if they have some confused planning going on. Hey ho!

As for H&S consultants respecting each others' turf, well, despite the mocking we get in public, most of us are practicable, reasonable people. Indeed most of us have backgrounds in real engineering, science, etc so are quite used to dealing with real-world problems. As I said before, as long as you stick with CMIOSH-qualified people, you shouldn't have a problem, as we are all members of the same professional body (IOSH).

Regards

SafetyOracle