Senior Health and Wellness Professional

Lead the development of a positive health and safety culture in our site, ensuring compliance with standards, policies, and procedures.

This role is responsible for leading and delivering all activity related to Health & Safety. The successful candidate will have thorough knowledge of current environmental, health and safety legislation and experience in dealing with regulatory bodies.

• Work closely with all departments to build positive safety relationships and safety cultures.
• Represent the company during outside agency audits/inspections and liaise as required with the health and safety authority.
• Coordinate and maintain organizational management systems (ISO) to ensure effective management of health and safety matters.
• Plan, manage, and complete health and safety audits and inspections in compliance with the audit plan.
• Attend daily operations meetings to report on safety and the status of safety actions/audits.
• Complete daily safety walks with supervisors and operatives.
• Produce weekly and monthly reports on safety performance in the business.
• Support the PPE tendering process for specification review.
• Monitor HSE objectives and targets in-line with internal metrics.
• Champion health and safety culture through training and awareness campaigns.
• Drive risk assessment program to ensure all risk assessments, method statements, and COSHH assessments are completed in compliance with consultation and participation requirements.
• Participate in internal auditing programme, ensuring compliance with ISO 45001:2018, complete internal audits against health and safety compliance obligations of the organization.
• Develop, maintain, and drive safety observation and near miss reporting processes, ensuring that any concerns raised are documented and relevant actions taken, with results of those actions reported back to those who raised the concern.
• Ensure corrective actions from internal audits are raised, actioned, and closed out as per the corrective actions process.
• Ensure existing and incoming legislation and regulations on health and safety are documented on a compliance register, ensure that actions to ensure legal compliance are documented as part of our management system and that records demonstrating legal compliance are maintained as controlled documented information.
• Ensure all reports as required by the legislation of missed time accidents/dangerous occurrences are completed and informed to the health and safety authority within the required period and records of such are maintained as documented information.
• Complete thorough investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for all significant incidents, reportable accidents, dangerous occurrences, and major property damage.
• Maintain and make available health and safety performance data, utilize this data to establish cross-departmental targets, and objectives.
• Utilize gathered safety data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Manage an annual safety communication plan, including internal safety communications (safety meetings, toolbox talks, safety messaging in notices on screens), safety messaging to subcontractors and suppliers.
• Organize and chair health and safety meetings at least once per month, results of meetings are issued to all relevant stakeholders.
• Manage emergency preparedness and response process in consultation with operations teams using a combination of training and regular drills.
• Work with teams to ensure new employee, visitor, and contractor safety induction compliance.
• Collaborate with all teams to ensure that health and safety policies, systems, and procedures are embedded in the organization.
• Support capital projects team on the review of subcontractor health and safety.
• Monitor contractor safety performance and provide feedback to key stakeholders.
• Support planning, execution, and review of annual shutdown acting in the PSCS role on behalf of the company.
• Travel may be required on occasions to attend courses/conferences.

• BSc in Occupational Safety and Health and Welfare or other recognized safety qualification.
• At least 5 years of experience in Occupational Safety and Health and Welfare.
• Thorough knowledge of current environmental, health, and safety legislation.
• Experience in dealing with regulatory bodies.
• Internal auditing experience would be beneficial.
• Experience with ISO 45001 Standards.

• Be proactive and work on own initiative as well as a strong Team Player.
• Enthusiastic and driven individual.
• Ability to efficiently manage all environmental, health, and safety issues on site.
• Strong communication and computer skills, MS Office Suite and H&S/Quality Management Software experience desirable.