Health and Safety Officer

Health and Safety Officer

Bedford

£25,000

FMW41641LL

Job Purpose

This is a hands on role based in the Warehouse. The Health and Safety Administrator will also help to support managers to achieve safe working conditions, legal compliance and the development of an effective health and safety culture.

Key responsibilities:

• Assisting the Health and Safety Manager in developing, implementing, and maintaining the business health and safety policies, procedures and safe systems of work to ensure compliance with the relevant legislation and guidance.
• Assist the Health and Safety Manager to out accident and near miss investigations as required to ensure the root cause is established and any necessary preventative actions are in place to prevent a recurrence of the incident.
• Assist the Health and Safety Manager to monitor and drive implementation of corrective and preventative actions arising from health and safety activities including accident investigations, risk assessments and safety audits to ensure the recommended control measures are in place.
• Assist in monitoring health and safety performance across the organisation to support continuous improvement.
• To assist in the preparation of any necessary health and safety reports to ensure stakeholders have the relevant information in a timely manner.
• To assist the Health and Safety Manager to ensure any contractors on site provide contractor’s documentation before work commences to ensure work is carried out in a safe manner.
• Maintain and update records of safety audits, plans, and reports.
• Maintain and update accident and near miss database.
• Assist in the organisation of the company’s annual health screening program.
• Collate and file safety documentation relating to each of the sites.
• Run regular reports to pick up and identify any outstanding actions.
• Attend Health & Safety Committee Meetings as and when required to take minutes.

To apply, please e-mail in strict confidence, with a comprehensive CV, including salary details, quoting the above reference and for the attention of lesa.lynch@thepeopleco.com

Due to a high volume of responses, we cannot reply to each application individually. If you have not had a response within one week, we are sorry to say your application has not been successful on this occasion.