Health and Safety Advisor
Location: Birmingham.
Salary / Benefits:
£45,000 - £50,000 plus car / car allowance, hybrid working & package
Company Information:
An experienced provider of infrastructure services and safety / training solutions are seeing to take on a Health & Safety Advisor to manage H&S processes, raise awareness and best practice in H&S operationally within the rail division.
The successful candidate will have:
- Previous experience of holding a similar role in the rail sector
- Confidence in interacting with staff across all departments within the Company, clients and third parties.
- Experience of working within a site-based environment on Rail/construction projects.
- Experience of internal auditing
- Hold a professional qualification ie. NEBOSH General / Construction Certificate (or equivalent)
- be a member of IOSH
- Holder of an Internal Auditing Qualification
- TopSet Investigation trained or equivalent
Desirable
- Working towards CMIOSH.
- Ideally hold NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate or equivalent
- Experience of Environmental & Social Values and Sustainability & Carbon Footprint reporting
Responsibilities of the Role:
- Act as deputy to the Head of Health & Safety in representing the company at External, Client and Stakeholder meetings.
- Build and maintain professional relationships with clients, principal contractors and industry businesses to understand safety strategies.
- Supporting the management of KPIs, identifying trends and concerns.
- Proactively managing continuous improvement strategies to strengthen understanding of how we can be better.
- Provide a single point of contact for the client to feedback on safety and competency matters
- Take ownership of developing a programme of site visits, ensuring all sites are visited/audited
- Complete accident/incident investigations to include immediate, underlying and root causes accompanied by an appropriate remedial action plan.
- Conduct regular visits to depots to carry out inspections and deliver safety awareness briefings, standdowns and training.
- Ensure all site incidents/accidents are investigated and documented with reports, statements and evidence. Attendance on site where appropriate to conduct investigations and reports etc.
- Quick resolution of any safety issues/concerns on site if possible
- Provide feedback to all stakeholders on lessons learnt from incidents and accidents
- Work closely with the Head of Health and Safety in developing the company's policies, processes and procedures
- Check that the client has safe systems and working practices and highlight any concerns to the Head of Health and Safety.
- Knowledge and understanding of delivering a Behaviour Based Safety Programme
- For further information and to apply for this role get in touch with a copy of your CV
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