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
- Maintain accurate site documentation, trackers, reports, and compliance evidence using digital systems
Requirements
- 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
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-compliance, multi-contractor environment
Desirable / nice-to-have background
- 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
- IOSH membership or higher-level H&S credentials would be useful but are not essential if site experience is strong
About the employer / environment
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
- Consultancy-led H&S or CDM support roles on client-side construction programmes
Useful adjacent sectors and environments:
- Distribution centres
- FMCG manufacturing sites
- Parcel hubs
- Industrial maintenance shutdowns
- Retail distribution or back-of-house refurbishment programmes
- Airport, rail depot, utilities, or pharmaceutical sites with live operations and strict compliance
Alternative job titles that may align well:
- 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