Health and Safety Authority
Healthy, safe and productive lives and enterprises.
Careers at the HSA
Grade II Inspector COMAH
Chemical Production and Storage
This role is all about ensuring safety, compliance, and innovation within chemical production and storage under the COMAH Regulations. Key Responsibilities include:
🚨 Ensuring Safety:
- Oversee compliance with national and EU safety standards.
- Conduct inspections and enforce actions to control major accident hazards.
- Investigate and report on incidents at COMAH and sub-COMAH sites.
📊 Driving Insights and Innovation:
- Analyse key trends and draft focused reports to inform future inspections.
- Contribute to policy development, legislative advancements, and technical innovations.
💡 Leadership and Collaboration:
- Lead and mentor teams, fostering a positive and productive environment.
- Collaborate with national and EU stakeholders to share expertise and insights.
📋 Operational Excellence:
- Maintain high-quality data and ensure timely completion of reports.
- Represent the Authority at EU-level meetings, shaping international safety practices.
- This is a dynamic role for individuals passionate about making a tangible impact on safety, policy, and innovation.
Grade III Inspector Investigation Unit
The work of a Grade III Inspector is varied and can involve the following non-exhaustive list of activities and tasks across all our mandates. We have several exciting opportunities for Grade III Inspector roles within our Investigation Teams. This dynamic position offers a variety of responsibilities across multiple mandates.
The Investigation Unit is responsible for examining workplace accidents, including both fatal and non-fatal incidents. Your role will involve:
- Collecting and securing evidence.
- Taking statements from witnesses.
- Interviewing suspects under caution.
Other duties may include:
- Complete inspections and investigations
- Make recommendations and prepare investigation files for onward transmission to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
- Where a decision is taken by the DPP to prosecute a duty holder, the Inspector will be required to attend and give evidence in the criminal courts.
- Assist Coroners Inquests as required.
- Contribute to the development of legislation, policy and guidance.
- Assess and prepare regulatory reports.
- Support the work of National Advisory Committees
- Represent Ireland and the Authority at national, EU, and international meetings.
- Support awareness-raising activities and maintain good communications with all stakeholders.
Why join the HSA?
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real difference, a career with the potential for enormous personal satisfaction, then why not consider a role with the Health and Safety Authority.
All staff, regardless of their specific job, work towards achieving our vision of “healthy, safe and productive lives and enterprises”. We make a difference and we’re proud of what we do. Every day brings different challenges and opportunities.
What do we do?
The Authority was established under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989, which has since been replaced by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
Additional functions have been conferred on the Authority since then under the Chemicals Act 2008 and 2010, and other legislation. In 2014, the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) was included under the Authority’s functions.
The Authority reports to the Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail under delegated authority from the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
The Authority’s main legislative role is outlined in the table.
Vision, Mission and Mandate
Vision
Healthy, safe and productive lives and enterprises.
In the longer term we want to realise a safe and healthy working life for people in Ireland and to foster an environment where businesses can grow and prosper.
We want to see human health protected by the safe use of chemicals in and out of work. We want to ensure that providers of services and products are accredited thereby enhancing the confidence of their customers and clients.
Mission
We regulate and promote work-related safety, health and welfare and the safe use of chemicals and products. We provide the national accreditation service.
Mandate
- To regulate the safety, health and welfare of people at work and those affected by work activities.
- To promote improvement in the safety, health and welfare of people at work and those affected by work activities.
- To regulate and promote the safe manufacture, use, placing on the market, trade, supply, storage and transport of chemicals.
- To act as a surveillance authority in relation to relevant single European market legislation.
- To act as the national accreditation body for Ireland.
Our Strategic Priorities
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Regulate: We will increase focus on compliance through risk based legislation, inspection, surveillance, and enforcement.
Promote: We will support, educate, and raise awareness to prevent incidents, injuries and ill health.
Influence: We will partner and collaborate to deliver our mandates and achieve our vision.
Accredit: We will deliver the National Strategy for Accreditation.
How We Work: We will continuously improve and transform the way we work through people, processes, technology and innovation.
Our Core Values
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Collaboration
We listen, consult and collaborate with employees, employers, stakeholders and partners.
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Openness
We embrace diverse perspectives while striving to be inclusive in all that we do. We encourage open and honest communication.
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Responsiveness
We adapt to changing circumstances and drive continuous improvement through innovation. We use data to inform what we do, and we evaluate and share learnings.
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Ethics
We uphold the highest professional, governance and ethical standards. We will earn trust by being accountable and delivering our services in a fair, independent and transparent manner.
Why Choose Us?
01 Meaningful Work
What we do matters and makes a real difference to the working lives of tens of thousands of employees, employers and members of the public across the country. Join a team that contributes every day to healthy, safe and productive lives and enterprises
02 L&D
Employees get to explore countless learning and development opportunities, build specialisms in specific areas, and even work alongside international experts. Our career progression and development programme puts the focus on staff, our most important resource. With such a diverse remit, you will get lots of opportunities to broaden your experience and expertise in directions you might never have considered possible
03 Flexibility
You can take advantage of the flexibility to combine on-site working and working from home. It’s time to experience the benefits of a genuine focus on work-life balance
Our Commitment to Supporting our Staff:
We are committed to embracing opportunities for blended working, to build a dynamic, agile and responsive organisation while sustaining strong standards of performance and high levels of productivity.
A healthy work-life balance is so important to us that we recognise this by offering a whole range of work-life balance options and a wide variety of special leave options.
If you enjoy cycling, we even provide access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and the Tax Saver Scheme.
Our extensive wellbeing programme includes an Employee Assistance Programme, health screening, health and nutrition advice and wellbeing talks.
We are committed to providing ongoing learning and development opportunities so that you can reach your full potential. Staff are actively encouraged to pursue further education opportunities through our Refund of Fees Scheme.
We are Committed to Diversity and Inclusion:
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As an equal opportunity employer, we’re all about ensuring committed to implement equal opportunities in all our employment policies and procedures.
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We value and welcome diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We aim to develop colleagues to enable them to make a full contribution to meeting the Authority’s objectives, and to fulfil their own potential on merit.
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Diversity and inclusion is reflected in and embedded across our employment policies and practices and is reflected in the faces we see in our workplace each day
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We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates of all backgrounds.