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.
