Junior Health & Safety Officer

The Role & Purpose:

• This is an exciting role which involves working across the entire organisation and theday to day running of a busy Manufacturing Plant. The successful applicant will be responsible for administrative, audit and practical support to the Health & Safety Officer.
• You work withing an environment management to ISO 45001, 9001, 14001,17025 and 50001.
• The role is designed to drive compliance and continuous improvement in health and safety.

Responsibilities Include assisting with:

• Health & Safety Officer
• Safety Promotion Keeping records, sharing results, ensuring safety has a visible and tangible presence in the workplace e.g.training, promotions, tool box talks, audits.
• Liaise with consultants and occupational health as required.
• Fire Safety Risk assessment with fire consultant/ Liaise with fire consultant on equipment and replacement/ recommendation of internal resources and training.
• New products/processes Recommendation and trials of new PPE/ Assessment of MSDS/Assessment of new work procedures or machinery.
• First Aid/Spills Assess equipment and systems to ensure suitable training/equipment and processes.
• Risk Assessments Risk assessment / Risk review and update in line legislation or new data.
• Review procedures/queries/practices and recommend measures and solutions/ Track recommendations arising from risk assessment and risk reviews/ Liaise with consultants and occupational health as required.
• Safety Committee Organise and facilitate safety committee meeting/ Regular communication and consultation with representatives/ Follow up and review issues arising.
• Accident Root cause Investigations/ Corrective and preventative action/ Identify training opportunities.
• Systems Auditing/ ISO 45001/ ISO 14001/ Q-Pulse
• Legislation Ensure all personnel understand their responsibilities. Review new legislation and assess compliance and actions arising.

Essential Requirements for the role:

• Level 7/Level 8 Qualification in Occupational Health and Safety or Engineering with additional training/experience in Occupational Health and Safety Management.
• Good computer skills using Microsoft Office and ability to learn new systems.