Health & Safety Officer

Health & Safety Officer

Location: Scarborough

Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per year, DoE

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8am – 4.30pm, hour for lunch

Job type: Full-time, permanent

Bridge Recruitment is helping one of our well-established clients recruit for an experienced Health & Safety Officer to join their ever-expanding team. Major part of the role is to provide advice and expertise to employees, supervisors and management in the development, implementation and maintenance of safe work practices and procedures in all operational areas and locations.

Responsibilities of the Health & Safety Officer:

• Advise Senior Management of H&S Law and updates.
• Ensure that safety procedures and working practices comply with legislative requirements and are in line with company values.
• Oversee the reporting of accidents under guidelines in compliance with RIDDOR
• To monitor and take appropriate action on accident / incident investigation, record, manage complaints and cases of ill health
• Investigating/recording incidents, accidents, complaints and cases of ill health
• Undertake risk assessments and site inspections and considering how risks could be reduced.
• Produce inspection analysis and reports to suggest improvements
• Ensuring that equipment is installed correctly/safely
• Deliver and coordinate all required training and maintain records, ensuring consistency across all sites, including the provision of First Aid and Fire Marshall services
• Chair and coordinate H&S meetings for the Scarborough site
• Assist with conducting H&S audits and oversee H&S audits by our client’s insurers
• Making presentations to groups of employees/managers
• Liaising with relevant authorities
• Always abide by and actively promote our client’s Values and Code of Ethics.
• Perform any other duties within your capabilities as requested from time to time by Management
• Foster good employee relationships with Staff and Management

ISO 45001/14001 Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the OH&S Management System confirms to the requirements of the ISO 45001 standard
• Report on the performance of the site OH&S Management System to top management (supported by UK H&S / CSR Manager)
• When requested, perform internal audits of the ISO 45001 Management System.

Requirements of the Health & Safety Officer:

• Qualified with an Occupational H&S qualification e.g., NEBOSH Certificate / Diploma
• At least 2 years’ experience in an industrial/engineering environment
• Proven ability to acquire and apply detailed legal, technical and regulatory information
• Proficient in the use of MS Office and our client’s systems
• Be able to deal efficiently and effectively with difficult situations
• Effective communicator at all levels – internal and external stakeholders
• Positive, proactive and professional approach with the ability to work effectively as part of a team and ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times
• Organisation and time management skills (priorities and multi tasks)
• Excellent analysis skills in understanding processes, tasks and operations
• Listening and ability to summarise as well as presentation skills
• Leadership and persuasive skills
• Calm, patient and assertive, with excellent negotiation skills
• Driving licence is desirable
• Willing to travel to other UK based site locations

If you feel like you meet the above criteria for the Health & Safety Officer role, then please contact Emma Paterson today! 

Emma@bridge-recruitment.co.uk