Health And Safety Advisor

Location: Stevenage - Some travel to Harlow and Cambridge will be required from time to time

Salary: upto £45,000 per annum DOE

Working hours: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday (1hr lunch)

Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + BH, Flex Benefits (EMCOR UK discount scheme)

About EMCOR UK:

At EMCOR UK, we revolutionise facilities management by combining our engineering heritage and innovation capability. We prioritise people in everything we do, collaborating closely with our customers to understand all their needs, from the big picture to day-to-day operations. Our purpose is to "create a better world at work". Using our unique insight platform, "One Data World," we harness data-driven intelligence to make informed decisions, adapting our services to meet our customers’ evolving requirements. This allows us to cultivate an enhanced workplace experience for their teams whilst optimising efficiency, meticulously managing every asset, and minimising their impact on the planet. All supported by our commitment to safety, compliance, and assurance. Our partnering approach empowers our customers to shape a better future. Whether guiding their path to net zero or redeveloping their facilities for enhanced efficiency, we create better places for work whilst taking away the burden of facility operations, freeing up our customers to concentrate on their business.

Job Purpose:

As a Health & Safety Advisor you will work closely with the H&S Manager in all aspects of delivery of the Company’s Health Safety Wellbeing, Environmental and Energy Management Systems. This will include, but not limited to, undertaking audits and inspections, developing operating procedures, preparing reports and statistics, delivering presentations as well as providing advice and guidance to employees and sub-contractors.

A critical aspect of the role is the safety leadership behaviours exhibited in setting the tone for our business. Application of a Just Culture approach is essential to incident investigation and the proactive reporting of incidents in a clear and concise way to ensure accurate conclusions can be drawn to enable shared learning. In addition, to foster a leading approach to safety and wellbeing indicators, positive observations and continuous improvement methods.

Duties:

• Undertake regular positive observation inspections and audits in keeping with an agreed programme in all operating regions and act and report accordingly.
• Investigate and report on incidents, dangerous occurrences, ill health, wellbeing concerns and near misses. Identify opportunities for improvement and information sharing.
• Prepare and present leading and lagging indicator statistics relevant to the development of the safety strategy.
• Advise and assist site and office based staff on all aspects of the Company’s, Health & Safety Environmental and Energy Systems and procedures.
• Source, plan and also deliver training to employees as required to recognised/acceptable standards.
• Continual promotion of the Health and Safety ethos and culture at all levels in the Company and with sub-contractors.
• Assess competence of sub-contractors.
• Attend and contribute to Health and Safety meetings at site, regional and Company level.
• Liaise with the Client and attend meetings as instructed by the H&S Manager.
• Contribute to and develop appropriate Health and Safety, as well as environmental initiatives as required by the H&S Manager.
• Prepare and distribute regular Health and Safety alerts as required.
• Contribute to the development of operating procedures and other aspects of the Safety, Health, Environmental and Energy Management Systems.
• Carry out risk, COSHH assessments and writing of method statements whilst ensuring compliance with H&S and legal obligations
• Continuous Improvement of processes within Quality Management System
• Coordinate training for health & safety and manual handling etc

• Coordinate internal annual audits for site health & safety, catering, contractors, security and the IMS.
• Information dissemination to all sites on team talks, H&S culture board, accident/incident significant near misses
• Input data onto the Intelex system and company intranet and ensure actions completed
• Input data onto client owned reporting system and ensure actions completed
• Ensure actions from external Audit Completed
• Update H&S Training Matrix all sites
• Ensure Contractor files current all sites
• Review Generic RA, SSoW, COSHH all sites
• Review F gas register all sites
• There will be a requirement to work flexibly to deliver training sessions and carry out audits to meet company requirements.
• Willingness to assume additional responsibilities in keeping with the requirements of the post.

Who you will be:

To be successful in this role we are seeking candidates with the following skills and attributes

Skills:

• Relevant H&S, Certificate IOSH Managing Safely essential or equivalent qualification. Behavioural safety experience an advantage.
• Experience preferably in a Health and Safety/environmental/energy related role
• Experience in delivering presentations/training sessions
• Experience of Health and Safety, environmental, and energy management systems
• Auditing and Compliance experience

Other factors:

• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office and Databases
• Outstanding communication both written and verbal across all levels of internal and external interface
• Calm professional manner, but able to take firm and timely decisions