When do I need an OHP - when I need a diagnosis, when guidance states that I
do, and when I feel that something is outside our bounds of competency.
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> From: Dennis Macwilliam[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Dennis Macwilliam
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ?requirement for OHP
>
> Kate, your contribution to the question 'when do I need an OHP' could be
> regarded as a legitimate response in a much wider debate, but the person
> who asked the question is still waiting for an answer!
>
> We are dealing with the here and now, not what if in some time in the
> future.
>
> I have myself raised the issue about what HSE should be doing with regard
> to qualifications of OH professionals. You rightly contrasted the
> situation with a number of other jobs, I made have made similar
> comparisons
> to gas fitters [CORGI Registration scheme enforced by HSE];asbestos
> contractors [formal approval scheme operated by HSE]; first aid workers
> [formal approvals given by HSC to first aid training organisations]; fork
> lift truck training organisations [formal approvals given by HSC to
> training organisations], and so on.
>
> I agree there is much inconsistency and I wish it were not so, but it
> appears that neither you or I have the ear of those who make HSE policy!
>
> I'm not entirely clear, though, why HSE should be made responsible for
> developing more OHPs; speaking personally, I believe you could get more
> bangs for your bucks if there were more practising OHNs! but that is my
> own view and not HSE's.
>
> As you also rightly say, demand creates its own supply, and there is a
> huge, unmet demand for more OH professionals - both OHPs and OHNs. So who
> should be responsible for training them? My organisation is cutting back
> on its own training budget otherwise it will not be able to meet its own
> travel and subsistence bill for Inspectors doing their job - going out and
> inspecting and enforcing at the workplace
>
> I'm sending this response to you directly and not via the discussion
> forum,
> because this discussion group is monitored by others in HSE who do not
> approve of operational inspectors joining in - other than to spout
> official
> HSE -speak.
>
> Regards
>
> Dennis M
>
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