Job Title: Health & Safety Officer
About the Role:
The successful candidate will be responsible for embedding a best practice safety culture within the organisation, aligned to its needs. This includes anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling workplace hazards with key stakeholders.
Main Responsibilities:
* Embed a best practice safety culture that is aligned to the organisational needs
* Anticipate, recognise, evaluate and control workplace hazards with all key stakeholders
* Evaluate the capacity of the organisational safety culture to make things go right
* Address safety hazards in an efficient and effective manner
* Build close working relationships with all key stakeholders by ensuring a just safety culture
* Promote 'Zero Harm' as an espoused organisational safety value
* Champion an interdependent organisational safety culture
* Achieve annual Key Performance Indicators on safety
* Deliver targeted safety induction onboarding for new employees
* Engage colleagues to drive continuous safety improvement
* Promote safety competency at all levels by targeted learning interventions
* Ensure emergency preparedness and response continuously meets the needs of the organisation
* Establish highest standards of safety practices for contractors and visitors on site
* Facilitate timely accident and incident investigations with key stakeholders and ensure lessons learned are acted upon
* Conduct audits/inspections as per ISO certification and ensure ongoing compliance
* Deputise for Safety Manager as required
* Support site Health and Safety committees
Requirements:
* Degree in Safety or Professional Diploma in Safety desired and/or a desire to obtain the required qualifications
* Chartered Member of IOSH or working towards Chartered Status
* Minimum of 3 years' experience of having direct or indirect responsibility for health and safety within a manufacturing environment
* Practical experience with ISO standard
* Competency to design and deliver safety training at all levels within an organisation
* Theoretical and practical experience of supporting safe behaviour programmes
* Motivated to work in a high performing organisation