HSE Staffing by Division/Directorate: 1 April 2003 – 1 April 2008

• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009

Staff in post figures are full time equivalents, rounded to the nearest whole number and include agency/temporary staff and inward secondees/loans for which HSE meets all or the majority of costs.	Staff in Post
	1.4.03	1.4.04	1.4.05	1.4.06 (1)		1.4.07	1.4.08 (13)
				Inc staff responsible for rail health & safety regulation matters transferred to ORR on 1 Apr	Exc staff responsible for rail health & safety regulation matters transferred to ORR on 1 Apr		Exc PSD	Inc PSD
(2) Health and Safety Commission Secretariat	-	-	-	5	5	5	-	-
Board of Health & Safety Executive	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4
Solicitors Office	34	33	-	-	-	-	-	-
(3) Legal Advisor’s Office	-	-	39	34	34	31	25	25
(4) Resources and Planning Directorate	496	446	426	433	433	395	316	316
(5) Communications Directorate	-	24	26	31	31	25	73	73
(11) Corporate Science and Analytical Services Directorate	-	86	76	88	88	73	-	-
Chief Scientific Advisor’s Group	-	-	-	-	-	-	76	76
(12) Corporate Specialist Division	-	-	-	-	-	-	157	157
POLICY
Health Directorate	167	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Safety Policy Directorate	114	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Strategy and Analytical Support Directorate	122	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
(6) Strategy Division	-	8	6	19	19	12	11	11
Rail Directorate	40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Policy Group	-	316	292	403	395	337	298	298
OPERATIONS
Operational Policy Division	35	35	-	-	-	-	-	-
(7) Operational Policy and Support Division	-	-	79	51	51	49	40	40
(8) Local Authority Unit	-	-	-	18	18	18	14	14
Field Operations Directorate	1712	1609	1623	1543	1543	1424	1207	1207
HM Railway Inspectorate	184	209	173	172	-	-	-	-
Hazardous Installations Directorate	615	605	553	548	548	536	513	513
Nuclear Safety Directorate	293	287	259	249	249	-	-	-
(9) Nuclear Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	303	296	296
(10) Electrical Equipment Certification Service	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
TOTAL HSE STAFF	3820	3658	3552	3594	3414	3208	3030	3030
Health and Safety Laboratory	342	361	351	397	397	374	369	369
Pesticides Safety Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	174
TOTAL STAFF	4162	4019	3903	3991	3811	3582	3399	3573

1. Figures in the first column for 1.4.2006 include staff with responsibility for rail regulation health & safety matters who transferred to the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) on that date. Inclusion will enable direct comparison with previous years’ figures.
2. From 1.4.2006, HSC’s Secretariat is shown separately.  Replaced by Board of HSE after merger 1.4.08
3. The Solicitors’ Office was renamed the Legal Advisor’s Office in January 2005. Moved out of Policy 1.4.08
4. Directorate of Information and Advisory Services section of the Resources and Planning Directorate (RPD) was reformed into Communications Delivery Service in October 2004. From 1.4.2006 the Chief Executive’s Office is included in RPD’s figures.
5. Communications Directorate was formed in January 2004.  From 1.4.08 includes CDS (FTE 54) who moved out of RPD on that date
6. From 1.4.2006 Strategy Division includes HSE’s Secretariat.
7. Operational Policy and Support Division, which replaced Operational Policy Division in January 2005, comprised Operational Policy Unit (formerly Operational Unit), Local Authority Unit and Operations Support Unit.
8. From 1.4.2006, Local Authority Unit is shown separately.
9. Nuclear Safety Directorate was renamed Nuclear Directorate (ND) on 1.04.2007 and the staff in post figure has been restated to include staff in the Office for Nuclear Security (FTE 29) and UK Safeguards Office (FTE 5) who transferred from the Dept for Trade and Industry to HSE on that date.  
10. The Electrical Equipment Certification Service ceased to operate on 1.10.2002.
11. The Corporate Science and Analytical Services Directorate was formed 1.1.2003 and combined analytical services, risk policy and science and technology into one Directorate.  Renamed Chief Scientific Advisor’s Group on 1.4.08
12. Science and Technology Group (formed 1.10.07) renamed Corporate Specialist Division 1.4.08
13. PSD (Pesticides Safety Directorate) transferred from DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) to HSE on 1 April 2008.  Figures are shown including and excluding PSD to enable direct comparison with previous years’ figures.