HSE Compliance Officer
Technical Compliance Officer/ HSE Compliance Officer
The external compliance officer
The external compliance officer advises you and your company on all compliance issues and provides technical support in the operation of your compliance management system. Their task is to inform the management and executives of the current regulations and to sensitize all employees to ensure that their work complies with the law.
It is therefore important to assign one person to deal with the topic permanently, as this is where all issues converge and are taken seriously and accurately. Even in large companies, a compliance officer usually reports directly to the management or is appointed by it. It is important that the compliance officer is actively informed about all changes to the law and adjustments or amendments to regulations and also actively undergoes further training.
For both large and small companies, external compliance officers offer additional advantages in this context, which are not to be sneezed at even in medium-sized companies. In small companies, it is often almost impossible for one person to concentrate fully on legal issues whenever changes occur. This is simply because every hand is needed in the core business.
In large companies, on the other hand, it is common for at least one employee to focus entirely on compliance, but over time this can have the effect of allowing the company's own interpretation of the law to creep in. All employees must contribute to the success of the company and are subject to the instructions of the management.
External compliance officers, on the other hand, can intervene on an ad hoc basis without diverting manpower from core areas and, for example, always point out the latest changes. They bring an outside perspective and have experience from other companies, sometimes even from other sectors.
In medium-sized companies, there is usually a good mix of an almost family-like corporate bond and strong external networking. In these structures, an external compliance officer has the advantage of scalability over an internal one. If there are many changes to requirements at the same time, they can be more involved and less involved at other times.
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Compliance - complex and important
Every company must operate compliance in order to fulfill all legal requirements and regulations, directives and ordinances. This is essential for the continued existence of every company. On the one hand, compliance protects against dangers, such as the obligation to signpost escape routes to protect employees from danger to life and limb. On the other hand, acting in accordance with the law is an effective protection against official fines and forced closures, such as a fine imposed for an administrative offense for failure to publish the balance sheet, which can quickly reach a significant amount and lead to the illiquidity of the company.
Compliance management ensures that the company really does comply with all specifications, regulations and laws. In addition to the protective effect for the company, it also quickly has an advertising effect. Customers and business partners perceive compliance measures and legal conformity as a clear sign of clean management that can be trusted, promises are kept, respectful interaction with one another is guaranteed, binding agreements, contracts and arrangements are adhered to. With this external impact, any company can become a role model.
For example, when purchasing an electrical appliance, customers receive a guarantee that this appliance will work as described for at least a specified period of time. The purchase is made on the basis of this guarantee. If individual companies did not adhere to their guarantee statements, buyers would lose confidence in the legal guarantee and sales figures would automatically fall, even for companies that comply with the law. Punishing violations of the law is therefore in everyone's interest.
Support from the Compliance Officer
Almost every medium-sized and large company needs a compliance officer, at least one. After almost every major economic scandal, laws are tightened and new controls installed. It is becoming increasingly complex for a company to always comply with the law.
Even very experienced managing directors are finding it increasingly difficult to always know and comply with all the rules on a daily basis, having been very familiar with the older rules and having worked with them for years in some cases.
Managing directors therefore need experts to advise and support them in complying with the regulations. Compliance officers are usually lawyers or business economists who have worked for the company for many years and know all the work processes inside out. They acquire the necessary knowledge through additional qualification measures and are then appointed as compliance officers. They have the task of advising the management on all decisions from a compliance perspective and thus indirectly influence all company decisions with the aim of helping the company to become more compliant.
Technical and HSE compliance officers
Depending on the size of the company and the scope of tasks and specialist areas, many companies have several compliance officers who focus on one area of compliance management and specialize in sub-areas.
In most cases, a technical compliance officer and an HSE compliance officer are jointly responsible for a company's compliance area. The technical compliance officer focuses on technical law, for example the requirements that must be met in order to operate large technical systems. The HSE Compliance Officer, on the other hand, focuses on the areas of occupational health and safety and environmental protection and thus, for example, the regulations on minimum heights and minimum widths of escape and rescue routes or minimum distances from hazardous substance storage facilities to still and flowing waters.
Our offer for Technical or HSE Compliance Officer
As an experienced engineer and lawyer, Donato Muro will be happy to support you with all questions relating to the Technical Compliance Officer and the HSE Compliance Officer. In particular, you can also consult Donato Muro on all questions relating to the external compliance officer. This offer applies to the following companies: architects' offices, engineering offices, craft businesses, construction companies, recruitment agencies, manufacturing industry and chemical or petrochemical plants and similar.
With very extensive experience in the areas of compliance, occupational safety and health and safety regulations, Donato Muro knows what is particularly important in which area and which points are almost equally important in all sectors. You can benefit from this experience by initiating the right measures in good time.
