Health And Safety Lead

Health and Safety Lead

Warwick (Hybrid)

6 Month Contract

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Group Safety Strategy and Data Manager, the Group Health and Safety Lead plays a key role in implementing the group's safety strategy to enhance overall performance. This involves developing and streamlining procedures, processes, and programs to ensure risk reduction and continuous improvement. Additionally, the position offers advisory support to Business Units and Corporate Functions to ensure compliance.

The Health and Safety Lead will collaborate with other CERO teams to establish training and compliance requirements for Health and Safety practices across the group.

Key Accountabilities

• Assist in the development of Health and Safety standards, procedures, processes, and programs to drive risk reduction and Safety culture improvement.
• Deliver the group contractor management process and ensure alignment of the process with the new Health and Safety management systems, leadership guidance, and compliance for all Business Units (BU). Identify noncompliance and improvement opportunities and report findings.
• Participate in or lead investigation of serious and potentially serious incidents. Ensure findings, recommendations, and learnings are shared across the group. Work with assigned stakeholders and ensure required Health and Safety measures or requirements are utilised to prevent accidents.
• Monitor corrective action program(s) to mitigate identified high-risk operations by determining the needed course of action and working directly with the business unit in the implementation of relevant risk reduction controls.
• Liaise with BU, technical safety, and HR development of HS&W training and induction programs in line with group campaigns and operational risk management plans. Also, support competency assessment of HS&W personnel, as required.
• Support Group Health and Safety strategy deployment and conduct reviews to capture changes in the external environment for improvements.
• Lead regular legal compliance evaluations to ensure compliance with legislation.
• Lead safety visits to sites and provide feedback to the site/group on the outcome of your visits.
• Support the delivery of the Group Stand Up for Safety Campaign at field locations.
• Ensure monthly or quarterly delivery of Safety & Health Performance and Incident reporting to the Group Health and Safety Leadership team.
• Provide safety performance reports with insights for strategy improvements. Use data to develop performance reports and identify actions for safety improvement based on trends identified.
• Develop emergency response and business continuity plans to minimise disruption.
• Lead safety surveys (including the delivery of the group bi-annual safety culture survey) and work with key stakeholders to develop actions for improvements in culture and performance across the group.
• Develop Health and Safety training and induction packs for use across the group.

Knowledge, Experience and technical knowhow

• Minimum 10 years' practical experience in health, safety & environment; 3 of which must be at a leading management level position in a high-risk industrial environment.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships at all levels within the organisation and lead/mentor workgroups and individuals.
• Ability to recognise issues, analyse, formulate, influence, and implement appropriate solutions.
• Proven experience in leading serious incident/accident investigations.
• Proven in the development and facilitation of training programs.
• Experience in Contractor management in large high-risk engineering environment
• Project and program management experience
• Good verbal, written communication, good computer and IT skills, and report writing.
• Ability to deliver presentations and conduct training.
• Knowledge of Safety risk management, Incident management/investigation methodologies, and learning sharing.
• Experience in contractor management in uncontrolled work environments.
• Knowledge of Safety & Health legislative and statutory requirements and experience working in relevant market/context.
• Experience implementing safety management systems standards (including ISO 45001)

Qualifications

• Formal Health and Safety or appropriate, qualification to Diploma/bachelor's degree in Process Safety or Occupational Safety and Health (or equivalent)
• NEBOSH General Certificate or Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health
• Lead Safety Management Systems (ISO 45001) Auditor (or equivalent)
• Full Member of a Professional Safety Management institution.
• Full clean UK driving licence.

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