HSE Staffing by Division/Directorate: 1 April 2004 - 1 April 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	1.4.04	1.4.05	1.4.06 (1)		1.4.07	1.4.08 (12)		1.4.09
	1.4.04	1.4.05	Inc staff responsible for rail health & safety regulation matters transferred to ORR on 1 Apr	Ex staff responsible For rail.....	1.4.07	Exc PSD	Inc PSD	1.4.09
(2) Health and Safety Commission Secretariat	-	-	5	5	5	-	-	-
(2) Board of Health and Safety Executive Secretariat	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	-
(14) Parliamentary and Secretariat Unit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Solicitors Office	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
(3) Legal Advisor’s Office	-	39	34	34	31	25	25	26
(4) (13) Resources and Planning Directorate	446	426	433	433	395	316	316	-
(13) Human Resource Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	102
(13) Planning, Finance and Procurement Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	81
(5) Communications Directorate	24	26	31	31	25	73	73	66
(10) Corporate Science and Analytical Services Directorate	86	76	88	88	73	-	-	-
(10) Chief Scientific Advisor’s Group	-	-	-	-	-	76	76	65
(11) (17) Corporate Specialist Division	-	-	-	-	-	157	157	97
(17) Pesticides Safety Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	174	-
(17) Chemical Regulations Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	236
POLICY
(6) (14) (18)Strategy Division	8	6	19	19	12	11	11	-
Policy Group	316	292	403	395	337	298	298	268
OPERATIONS
Operational Policy Division	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
(7) (15) Operational Policy & Support Group	-	79	51	51	49	40	40	-
(8) Local Authority Unit	-	-	18	18	18	14	14	-
Field Operations Directorate	1609	1623	1543	1543	1424	1207	1207	-
HM Railway Inspectorate	209	173	172	-	-	-	-	-
Hazardous Installations Directorate	605	553	548	548	536	513	513	-
Nuclear Safety Directorate	287	259	249	249	-	-	-	-
(9) Nuclear Directorate	-	-	-	-	303	296	296	-
DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE (16)
Local Authority Unit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
Field Operations Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1277
Hazardous Installations Directorate	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	501
Nuclear Directorate	-	-	-	-				316
(13) Business Services Division	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	136
Deputy Chief Executives Office	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14

TOTAL HSE STAFF	3658	3552	3594	3414	3208	3030	3204	3201
Health & Safety Laboratory	361	351	397	397	374	369	369	390
TOTAL STAFF	4019	3903	3991	3811	3582	3399	3573	3591

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.
From 1.4.2006, HSC’s Secretariat is shown separately. From 1.4.2008 shown as Board of Health and Safety Executive Secretariat following merger of HSC and HSE.
The Solicitors’ Office was renamed the Legal Advisor’s Office in January 2005. Moved out of Policy Group 1.4.2008
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.
Communications Directorate was formed in January 2004. From 1.4.2008 includes CDS (FTE 54) who moved out of RPD on that date
From 1.4.2006 Strategy Division includes HSE’s Secretariat.
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.
From 1.4.2006, Local Authority Unit is shown separately.
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.
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
Science and Technology Group (formed 1.10.2007) renamed Corporate Specialist Division 1.4.2008
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.
On 1 April 2009 RPD split to form: Human Resources Directorate (HRD) – combining Human Resources (HR) and Trade Unions (TU); Planning, Finance and Procurement Directorate (PFPD) – combining PFPD, Internal Audit (IA) and Chief Executives Office (CEO); Business Services Directorate became part of the Deputy Chief Executive’s responsibility. (see note 16)
On 1 April 2009 the HSE Secretariat became the Parliamentary Secretariat Unit (PSU) and becomes standalone.
From 1 April 2009 Operational Policy & Support Division (OPSD) is included in the Deputy Chief Executive’s Office and is directly accountable to the Deputy Chief Executive.
From 1 April 2009 the Deputy Chief Executive’s responsibility includes Operations Group (Field Operations Directorate, Hazardous Installations Directorate, Nuclear Directorate and Local Authority Unit), Deputy Chief Executives Office and Business Services Division.
Pesticides Safety Directorate and part of Corporate Specialist Division merged to form Chemical Regulations Directorate from 1.4.2009.
From 1.4.2009 Strategy Division ceases to exist.