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Health & Safety Officer

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Health & Safety Officer

Birmingham

£32,000

Are you passionate about Health & Safety looking for an opportunity to take on more responsibility, take the lead and continue your personal development?

My client are looking for and Health & Safety officer to be part of the management team based in Birmingham. You will have responsibility on site with support and of the H&S Controller who over looks multiple sites.

For this i am looking for someone to be a key member of the Site Management with a hands on approach to ensure all aspects of Health & Safety on sites are adhered to.

You will need to prioritise and organise an often varying and changing workload with differing levels of pressure whilst always maintaining a positive can-do attitude.

You need to be able to travel occasionally within the UK to our other sites and customer offices.

Responsibilities:

Accidents, Incidents & Near Misses:

• Investigate wherever there is a serious risk of an accident or incident occurring and ensure the Health & Safety Controller is made aware of the issue.
• Investigate all accidents, incidents and near misses.
• Maintain statistics regarding accidents, incidents and near misses to recognise any trends.
• Complete all report paperwork and ensure reports are reviewed by appropriate department heads before filing.

Auditing and Inspections:

• Conduct inspections, surveys, safety tours or audits as agreed with the Health & Safety Controller. Ensure the results of such monitoring are publicised in an appropriate manner.
• Ensure all areas and departments are inspected and cross inspected by respective Safety Representatives.
• Results of all site safety inspections should be collated, and statistics kept to recognise any trends; items of concern should be reported to the department head and Health & Safety Controller.
• Conduct appropriate inspections including Fire Extinguisher checks, Fire Door Surveys, PPE reviews, Fire Alarm tests, Fire drills when required to comply with minimum legal requirements

Meetings:

• Ensure Health and Safety Management meetings are held and Health & Safety Committee meetings are held with management support from the Health & Safety Controller.
• Ensure appropriate minutes are documented; kept on file; and are publicised in an appropriate manner.
• Follow up Safety Items which result from the meetings with the appropriate department head and Health & Safety Controller.

COSHH: Manage all aspects of group COSHH requirements from register(s) to data sheets and Risk Assessments.

Safety Training:

• Ensure that the Health and Safety training plan is up to date and existing employees are appropriately trained as per the training matrix.
• Ensure new employees have either current appropriate certification or are trained accordingly to ensure compliance with training matrix needs.
• Ensure new employees receive the appropriate Health & Safety Induction.

Reporting:

Ensure monthly reporting is completed and sent to the Health & Safety Controller to ensure wider reporting within Eclor/Agrial.

Qualifications:

• GCSE's including Maths and English.
• Relevant equivalent (Minimum NVQ 2)
• Degree or equivalent industry experience
• IOSH or ideally NEBOSH

Experience:

• Experience of working within Food Manufacturing Health & Safety Team or Compliance or Quality Team.
• Desired experience of SAP systems

Benefits

• Salary £32,000
• Use of pool car for travel across sites
• Fuel expenses for travel between sites

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