For international employers · Safety & Compliance
Falisha Manpower recruits health, safety and environment (HSE) personnel from Pakistan for contractors, operators and plant owners across the Gulf states, Türkiye, Europe and Central Asia. That can mean a single safety officer for a building site, the HSE team for an EPC package, or the fire watchers and safety stewards a shutdown needs beside every hot-work crew. Falisha operates under OEP Licence No. 4035 from the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment, so each hire follows Pakistan’s regulated emigration route, from document checks and contracts to visas and Protector of Emigrants clearance.
Safety job titles are used loosely, and the same title can describe very different jobs. On one project a “safety officer” issues permits and has the authority to stop work on a live process unit; on another the same title keeps the induction register for a housing scheme. What a candidate has actually controlled — the hazards, the size of workforce, the permits and investigations they were responsible for — tells you far more than the title or a list of course certificates. We fix the level with you first, from fire watcher to HSE manager, and search against it.
Safety certificates are easy to list on a CV, so they need checking. Where the awarding body offers a verification route, as NEBOSH and IOSH do, we confirm the certificate there before a profile reaches you. We then arrange scenario interviews and written exercises led by your own HSE manager, so you see how a candidate reasons about a real site problem, not only what courses they have completed.
Roles & specialisations
Matched to your specification and the work itself, not just a job title.
Entry-level safety personnel posted with welding, cutting and grinding crews. They check the area is clear of combustibles, keep extinguishers and fire blankets at hand, watch for sparks and smouldering during the work and for the period your hot-work permit sets afterwards, and raise the alarm. A task-specific junior role, not an HSE officer.
Junior safety staff who support supervisors at the work front: keeping barricades and access routes in place, checking PPE and housekeeping, acting as standby attendant at a confined-space entry where trained, and reporting unsafe conditions. Shutdown campaigns often need one for each crew or work front.
The daily safety presence on a construction or plant site. They carry out area inspections, deliver toolbox talks and inductions, check permits and lifting plans at the point of work, record observations and near misses, and prepare the daily and weekly HSE reports your client expects.
Experienced officers who run safety for an area, shift or subcontractor package. They direct officers and stewards, chair area safety meetings, follow up corrective actions and take charge at the scene when an incident happens.
Advisory roles, common with operators and larger contractors, centred on job safety analyses, risk assessments, procedure reviews, audits and coaching line managers, rather than patrolling a single area all day.
Usually degree-qualified, often in an engineering discipline, and working at system level: project HSE plans, hazard identification workshops, emergency response plans, safety input to design reviews and HSE statistics for the client. Employers use the title differently, so confirm whether an engineering degree is genuinely required.
Senior professionals who own the HSE management system for a project or company: legal compliance, the client and consultant interface, the audit programme, sign-off of incident investigations and leadership of the whole safety team.
Specialists for operating plants and shutdowns who run the permit office: preparing permits and isolation certificates, keeping gas-test records, spotting clashes between simultaneous activities and auditing permits in the field.
Officers who manage waste segregation and disposal records, dust, noise and spill controls, and the monitoring records required under a project’s environmental management plan, often alongside the HSE team.
Before you hire
The distinctions that decide whether a hire works on your project.
These are levels of authority, not interchangeable titles. An officer works at the work face; a supervisor runs an area and its officers; an advisor shapes risk assessments and procedures; an HSE engineer produces studies and plans; a manager owns the system and signs off investigations. Describe the decisions the person will make and who they report to, and we recruit at that level.
Construction safety revolves around work at height, excavations, lifting, scaffolding and traffic on a site that changes every week. Oil and gas adds permit-to-work, isolations, gas testing, H2S and process safety. Factories and utility plants focus on machine guarding, lockout, chemicals and routine maintenance. An officer strong in one setting needs time to adjust to another, so tell us which one your site is.
Shutdowns and large hot-work programmes can need many junior safety personnel at once. Screen them on tasks — extinguisher use, hot-work hazards, standby duties, simple reporting — instead of relabelling general labourers or lowering your requirement for officers. Keeping the two categories apart protects both.
A NEBOSH or IOSH certificate shows that someone has studied occupational safety. It does not show that they have stopped an unsafe lift or led an investigation. Ask for evidence of responsibility — permits signed or monitored, investigations led, workforce covered — and use the interview to test judgement. For senior roles, a diploma-level qualification or chartered membership of a professional body is a reasonable marker.
Some destinations regulate who may practise as a safety professional. Abu Dhabi’s Public Health Centre registers occupational safety and health practitioners under its Qudorat programme, after verifying qualifications and assessing competency. In Saudi Arabia, an HSE Advisor trade appears on NAVTTC’s list for the Skill Verification Program, and an engineering visa title brings Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation into scope. Settle the visa occupation and any local registration at offer stage.
Your requirement
The more precise the brief, the more precise the shortlist. Anything you are unsure of, we work out with you.
Standards & qualifications
Qualifications, codes and licences candidates may hold or be assessed against — you decide which apply.
A certificate-level qualification in occupational health and safety from NEBOSH, the UK awarding body, assessed through an open-book examination and a practical risk assessment of a workplace. NEBOSH runs an online verification service; the certificate holder approves each request.
NEBOSH’s diploma for occupational health and safety management professionals, typically asked for in HSE manager and senior advisor roles. NEBOSH reports that Abu Dhabi’s Public Health Centre aligns the International Diploma with the qualification level for senior practitioner registration, and the IGC with general practitioner registration.
Managing Safely is a short IOSH course for managers and supervisors — a training certificate rather than a professional qualification. IOSH membership grades, up to chartered membership, are a separate professional standing. IOSH’s online checker can confirm membership, training and qualifications.
OSHA-authorized trainers issue 10-hour and 30-hour cards, for example in Construction or General Industry, when a student completes an Outreach course; the 30-hour course is aimed at supervisors and workers with safety responsibility. OSHA states that these cards are not a certification or licence, so read one as evidence of training completed, not of competence.
The international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. On sites run under it, officers should understand how their inspections, incident reports and corrective actions feed the system; managers may also need internal or lead auditor training.
Mandatory only for occupations Takamol has notified; NAVTTC runs it in Pakistan. An HSE Advisor trade sits under Health & Safety on the trade list NAVTTC publishes for the programme, so each Saudi visa occupation is checked against the current list before a test is booked.
Assessment
Arranged to your criteria before you interview, so you evaluate ability rather than a CV.
NEBOSH and IOSH certificates are checked through each body’s own verification route, and other safety certificates through their issuers where a route exists. OSHA Outreach cards are checked with the trainer or training organisation named on the card where possible. Anything we cannot confirm is reported to you as unconfirmed.
We look past titles to the work behind them: sites and hazards covered, workforce size, permits signed or monitored, investigations led and reports produced. Experience letters and references are followed up with former employers where possible.
Your HSE lead interviews shortlisted candidates on site situations — a scaffold tagged unsafe on the morning of a pour, a gas reading that rises during hot work, a near miss a foreman would rather not report — to test judgement, authority and how they communicate. We can propose scenario sets for each level; your panel conducts and scores the interview.
Officers and above can be set a short written task: a job safety analysis for a described activity, a toolbox talk outline, or an incident report built from a set of facts. It shows both the safety thinking and the written English your client will read.
Fire watchers and safety stewards are assessed on tasks rather than paperwork — spotting hot-work hazards in a set-up area, selecting and using the correct extinguisher, explaining confined-space standby duties and reporting what they observed. Sessions are arranged at a training facility in Pakistan, and your representative can attend or follow by video.
How it works
From your requirement to workers on site.
We agree level, setting, hazards, permit duties, qualifications, languages, headcount and dates, and identify any destination registration or Saudi skill-verification step linked to the visa occupation.
We search our candidate database and HSE network for people whose experience matches your setting — high-rise, infrastructure, operating plant or shutdown — and run fire watchers and stewards as a separate sourcing stream.
Safety certificates are confirmed with the awarding bodies and experience letters with former employers where possible. Profiles whose responsibilities fall short of the level are set aside.
Officer-level candidates and above complete the scenario interview and written exercise; junior candidates complete the practical session.
Your HSE manager or project lead meets the candidates who came through assessment, either on a video call or in person in Pakistan, and you decide who receives an offer.
After selection we confirm the visa occupation matches the role and begin any destination-specific steps, such as the Takamol test at a NAVTTC centre where the occupation is notified, or the documents a local practitioner registration will ask for.
Candidates complete the destination medical, degrees and certificates are attested where required, the work-visa file is lodged, and emigration clearance is obtained from BEOE and the Protector of Emigrants ahead of the flight.
Safety staff are scheduled to arrive before, or together with, the crews they will cover, so they can complete site induction and learn your permit system first. For a shutdown, that means before the outage begins.
Sourcing
NEBOSH and IOSH courses are delivered through training providers in Pakistan, so many candidates have studied the same international syllabi your clients refer to, and their certificates can be confirmed with the awarding body rather than taken on trust.
Pakistan’s refineries, fertiliser and gas processing plants, power stations and large infrastructure schemes are run under contractor and operator HSE systems, so officers often learn permits, audits and incident reporting at home before working abroad. Many have also worked on Gulf projects, which we confirm from records.
Gulf sites employ many workers from Pakistan and neighbouring countries. HSE staff from Pakistan speak Urdu and often Pashto or Punjabi, which helps when toolbox talks and inductions must reach workers who are not fluent in English, while reports are still written in English for your client.
Pay & terms
The employer decides HSE pay and fixes it in the employment contract, and in practice it follows level and setting more than title. Fire watchers and stewards are paid as junior site staff; officers, supervisors, advisors and managers step up with authority and with the qualifications your client demands, and operating-plant or oil and gas experience is generally valued above general building-site experience. Rotation, shutdown overtime, and whether housing, food and transport are provided complete the package.
Client contracts often fix HSE staffing levels and minimum qualifications, so the person you recruit is part of what you deliver to your client. Budget for the level the contract actually requires: an officer-level package offered for a manager-level role tends to produce late withdrawals, while over-specifying qualifications for steward roles shrinks the pool for no benefit. We can talk the package through with you before offers go out.
Agree in writing who meets the cost of any course, local practitioner registration or skill-verification test the role needs, and write it into the employment contract that goes to the Protector of Emigrants. Unlawful recruitment fees must never be taken from candidates, whatever the level of the role.
Compliance & trust
Falisha Manpower recruits under Overseas Employment Promoter Licence No. 4035, issued by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BEOE), Government of Pakistan.
Every selected worker is processed through BEOE and Protector of Emigrants formalities before departure — the legal route for Pakistani workers taking overseas employment.
Workers are not charged unlawful fees and their passports are not retained. Terms are documented in the employment contract before travel.
You set the specification and the acceptance criteria, and you make every final hiring decision — we source, coordinate, document and mobilise.
Read our quality policy, anti-trafficking statement, or report recruitment fraud. Licence status can be checked with the BEOE.
Sectors
Destinations
Subject to active employer demand and each destination’s visa and work-permit requirements.
FAQ
References: NAVTTC: Pakistan–Saudi Arabia Skill Verification Program (trade list) · NEBOSH: Verifications · NEBOSH: Abu Dhabi OSH framework recognises NEBOSH qualifications · IOSH: Training certificate verifier · OSHA: Outreach Training Program (10-hour and 30-hour cards) · Abu Dhabi Media Office: ADPHC framework for registering OSH specialists · Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media): Engineering Professions Practice Law
Last updated 10 November 2026. General guidance for employers; destination rules change, so requirements are confirmed for each recruitment.
Send us the role, numbers, specification, destination and joining date. We will review it, confirm what the assessment must prove, and give you a realistic plan.
