Senior Safety Advisor

Company: ★ HornerSalus Ltd // Event & Fire Safety Consultancy
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Location: London
Job Description:

HornerSalus Ltd has a new position available for a Senior Safety Advisor to join our leading

event and fire safety organisation in Victoria, London.

The role requires an individual with varied event experience, a proactive approach to assisting our

team and our clients with events and projects, sustained focus, and a great team-work ethic.

HornerSalus is a specialist event safety consultancy who provide expert advice and services to the

event, design, fashion, hospitality, film, and creative industries.

Based in Victoria you can expect to be working with a very friendly and supportive team along with

exposure to a wide variety of exciting projects here in London, across the UK, and overseas with

many of our projects spanning Europe and the U.S. Add to this mix a fantastic selection of award

winning clients, whom we help navigate complex safety considerations and deliver brave creative

concepts.

Here’s a snapshot of some of the projects we worked across in May and June of this year.

Events during this period saw us working across a variety of London locations and further afield

including:

Goodwood: Festival of Speed (8 events), Birmingham: NEC event, Cornwall: product launch,

Silverstone: F1, Florence: private wedding, Miami: fashion show & after party, L.A: party, Cannes:

Lions (16 events), and Peru: private event.

In total, we provided consultancy, support, site safety and specialist fire safety services to 58 live

projects over a six-week period.

Role Description

The role requires an individual with varied event experience, a proactive approach to assisting our

team and our clients with events and projects, sustained focus, and a great team-work ethic.

This is a full-time hybrid role based in the London Area, United Kingdom, with some flexibility for remote work. As a Senior Safety Advisor at HornerSalus Ltd, you role and duties will include:

The Role:

  • Assisting in, composing, and implementing solutions to H&S challenges for live events and in the workplace
  • Conducting feasibility reports, capacity studies, audits, on-site inspections, and general reporting
  • Liaison with clients, contractors, suppliers, and venues to ensure management and implementation of safety procedures
  • Production of event safety plans, risk assessments, emergency procedures, fire safety plans, crisis planning and crowd management plans
  • Production of fire risk assessments
  • Working at live events as a safety advisor
  • Attendance at client and venue meetings, event inspections, SAG meetings, table top sessions

Role requirements:

  • NEBOSH General Certificate L3 or NCRQ Certificate in Applied Health and Safety, as a minimum
  • Excellent understanding of risk assessments, event safety plans and fire safety
  • 3+ years experience in a similar safety role
  • Very good communicator with strong interpersonal skills and attention to detail
  • Very good written and spoken English language
  • Fire Safety qualification at L3 / L4
  • Proven ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise effectively
  • IT literacy and ability to present clearly and confidently to management
  • A conscientious and rule-bound individual with a strong sense of diplomacy
  • An excellent head for organisation and problem solving
  • An ability to work with sustained focus
  • Ability to treat high level information with the strictest of confidence at all times

Desired Skills & Experience:

  • L5 or 6 qualification in Health, Safety or Fire; (or working towards this)
  • Applied knowledge of live events, venues and contractors
  • Tech IOSH Accreditation, working towards CMIOSH
  • Mac computer and software knowledge

The deal:

  • A full time permanent position (upon successful completion of a probationary period)
  • A competitive salary for the right candidate;
  • Package up to £55k, depending on experience
  • Overtime earnings for site work at competitive rates
  • Pension plan
  • Performance based annual bonus scheme
  • 22 days + bank holidays + additional rota system time off at Christmas (circa 3 days)
  • Additional holiday entitlement for length of service (Up to 29 days)
  • Opportunity for progression readily available within the company
  • Opportunities for career advancement and further training

Candidates invited to interview can expect to answer competency, technical and scenario based questions to demonstrate ability, likability, and drive.

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Posted: October 15th, 2026