Health And Safety Advisor
4 days ago
Camborne
Job title Freelance Health & Safety Advisor Location Camborne, Cornwall | On-site Salary / rate £300 per day | Freelance contract Outside IR35 / CIS / self-employed options available About the role We’re looking for a hands-on Health & Safety Advisor to support a major internal refurbishment project within a live logistics environment in Camborne. This is a site-based freelance role working via a consultancy on a client-side project for a major global brand. You’ll take the lead on day-to-day H&S across a fast-paced, multi-contractor refurbishment programme, helping site teams maintain compliance, drive safe behaviours, and keep works progressing in a live operational setting. This role will suit someone confident on site, strong on CDM, and comfortable influencing everyone from operatives and subcontractors through to senior stakeholders. Key responsibilities • Lead health and safety activity on a live refurbishment project involving multiple contractors, • Carry out site inspections, audits, and compliance checks, then report findings and drive close-out actions, • Review and support RAMS, risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work, • Deliver toolbox talks, site briefings, and behavioural safety engagement sessions, • Support site leadership with practical H&S advice and visible on-site presence, • Liaise with contractors, consultancy teams, and client-side stakeholders to maintain standards, • Investigate incidents and near misses, then implement corrective and preventative actions, • Proven experience in a construction or refurbishment-focused Health & Safety role, • Around 7+ years’ CDM-related experience, • NEBOSH qualified, with General Certificate minimum, • Strong working knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015, • Confident reviewing RAMS, risk assessments, method statements, and site compliance documentation, • Strong IT skills, including reporting, trackers, MS Office, and digital H&S systems, • Able to influence, coach, and challenge at all levels on site, • Experience on client-side projects or within consultancy-led delivery teams, • Experience in live sites such as logistics, warehouse, industrial, manufacturing, distribution, retail, or other operational environments, • Background in internal refurbishment, fit-out, brownfield works, or phased construction in occupied buildings You’ll be joining a consultancy team supporting a major client-side refurbishment for a well-known global brand. The site is active, complex, and delivery-focused, so this role offers real autonomy and the chance to make a visible impact on standards, behaviours, and project performance. Best-Fit Candidates This role is likely to suit Health & Safety Advisors, HSE Advisors, CDM Advisors, Construction Safety Advisors, or Site Safety Advisors who have worked in: • Refurbishment and fit-out contractors, • Principal contractors delivering occupied-site works, • Industrial, warehouse, logistics, or manufacturing environments, • Facilities, building projects, or contractor management teams within live operational sites, • Distribution centres, • FMCG manufacturing sites, • Parcel hubs, • Industrial maintenance shutdowns, • Retail distribution or back-of-house refurbishment programmes, • Health & Safety Advisor, • HSE Advisor, • Site Safety Advisor, • Construction Health & Safety Advisor, • CDM Advisor, • Health and Safety Consultant, • HSEQ Advisor, • SHE Advisor, • Project H&S Advisor, • EHS Advisor