Seinior Health And Safety Specialist

Job Description

This is a great opportunity for a Health And Safety Specialist to join a pharmaceutical company based in Dublin.

Senior Health & Safety Specialist

Ensure maintenance of the safety management system ISO45001 to ensure that the policies and procedures are consistent with best safety standards and that the elements as defined below -

• Comply with regulatory requirements and reflect continuous improvement initiatives:
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities, communicate to management and review periodically
• Safety Statement review and update
• Safety policies (e.g., electricity, working at heights)
• Coordinate Risk Assessments Programme
• HSE Handbook, Site inductions, Safety SOPs, Permit Reviews
• Co-ordinate and conduct the Occupational Monitoring Programme
• Contractor Management - Process/Procedural responsibility & verification of compliance.

 

 

Audits:

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards associated with ISO45001, cGMP, ISO14001, Health & Safety Legislation, Environmental Legislation, and all site standards, policies, and procedures.
• Provide support for any external audits/inspections carried out on site (HSA/ISO 45001/Corporate).
• Carry out inspections and internal audits of the site on a regular basis. Develop the annual internal audit schedule and ensure compliance with the schedule.
• Safety Performance
• Promote the highest standards of site safety by influencing the behavioural aspects of safety

performance.

• Assess process/plant changes/new installations and participation in project teams to ensure health and safety aspects of materials and operations are considered.
• Provide technical safety input to the design and construction of new/modified facilities including impact on future maintenance requirements.
• Ensure that new processes and associated equipment modifications are assessed from a health and safety perspective through HAZOPs, HAZID's, Method Statements & Risk Assessment.
• Co-ordination and conducting site safety & behavioural tours and follow-up actions.
• Health & Safety promotion via competitions, poster campaigns, notice boards and safety weeks.
• Reporting to the Astellas management, the H&S KPI's on a monthly basis.
• Ensure all near miss, hazard spotting and first aid/ accident reports are investigated, root cause identified and corrective actions implemented in a timely manner. Collation of Statistics.
• Act as REACH co-ordinator to ensure materials are registered as required, including safety testing for new processes and co-ordination of testing programmes. Generate SDSs for AICL materials.
• Support the Senior EHS Engineer with process safety requirements / COMAH requirements for the site.

 

• Supervision of Health and Safety Specialist
• Provision of supervision and direction to the Health and Safety Specialist ensuring time is given to development, coaching and training also.
• Monitor the workload of the Health and Safety Specialist and support prioritisation of the work as required.
• Ongoing review of performance, formal annual and midyear reviews and setting of objectives.
• Reward and recognition of achievements to be carried out.

 

• Health and Safety Training Provision and Support for EHS Administrator (Training Co-ordinator)
• Provision of guidance to the EHS Administrator (training co-ordinator) to ensure all Health and Safety training requirements are met on site.
• Run training courses when required and as relevant to the Health & Safety function to support the EHS
• Administrator including induction training and ongoing training to meet statutory requirements e.g. Manual Handling, DGSA awareness, forklift training, VDU and ergonomic assessment training.

 

Interpersonal Relationships:

• Internal
• Employees at all levels within the AICL (Dublin Site)
• EHS Team
• Regular progress meetings with EHS Manager
• Supervision of the Health and Safety Specialist via regular progress meetings
• Work with remote teams in Production (incl.
• Environmental Operations), Facilities
• Engineering, Projects, Quality Departments

 

External

• External consultants and contractors
• Professional and/or Regulatory bodies in particular being
• the main point of contact with the HSA.
• Interact with the wider Health and Safety Regulatory community in all regions and HQ to align on Global and regional initiatives and projects as relevant.

 

Experience Required

• Educated to degree level in Science, Chemical Engineering (or equivalent) discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification in Health and Safety.
• Minimum 7 years health and safety experience preferably working in a manufacturing pharmaceutical environment or alternatively 4 years process engineering experience combined with minimum 4 years in a site
• health and safety role preferably in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of current Health and Safety Legislation/Regulation and current best practice.
• Proven track record of maintaining health and safety compliance in a pharmaceutical company.
• Ability to clearly communicate the health and safety requirements of activities.

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

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