Health and Safety Manager

Are you an highly organised and well qualified Health and Safety professional with proven breadth and depth of H&S knowledge and experience? Want to work for a successful, forward thinking and growing organisation that can offer an informal, friendly but professional and hard working environment? If you do we may have a role for you!

We are looking for a proven health and safety professional to develop and manage our processes here at DCA continuously developing and implementing good practice in all areas of health and safety to ensure ongoing statutory compliance.

If you are successful you will work closely with the Board, the HR Manager and the Facilities Manager to develop and deliver a range of proactive and preventative health and safety initiatives.

This role reports directly to the Board, but the successful applicant will need sufficient experience and knowledge to work autonomously in areas and on tasks agreed with the Board.

Key tasks and responsibilities

The key tasks and responsibilities listed below are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post holder. This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post holder who will be expected to carry out other tasks for which they are appropriately experienced and qualified as may be required by the Board.

• Work closely with the Board to support the delivery of DCA’s business plans and to provide an efficient and effective health and safety service ensuring statutory compliance.

• Act as the first point of contact for all general H&S queries and provide professional advice and guidance, in line with DCA’s policies and procedures, to Directors, Sector Managers, Project Managers, Skill Leaders and all employees as required.

• Keep up-to-date with new health and safety developments, innovations and legislation and advise the Directors of changes required to support DCA’s H&S strategy.

• In conjunction with the Board, develop, document and implement updates and enhancements to DCA’s Health and Safety policy documents in line with the latest legislation and DCA’s business needs.

• Maintain KPIs for health and safety and use these as the basis for preparing management reports to present in person at Board Meetings on a monthly basis.

• Where agreed with the Board, take responsibility for the delivery of specific H&S related projects and new initiatives.

• Monitor and audit DCA’s activities in all areas related to health and safety against an agreed audit schedule to ensure compliance in all areas in line with DCA’s policies and procedures and implement any corrective actions.

• Create and review risk management documents such as risk assessments and SWPs, covering all aspects of DCA’s activities including, but not limited to, COSHH, fire, home and remote working and general risk assessments, as well as project, market sector or skill specific risk assessments. Propose and implement control measures and/or corrective actions as a result of these risk assessments.

• Take day to day lead responsibility for a range of health and safety areas, such as waste, accident reporting, COSHH, machine safety, fire, first aid, overseas travel and DSE.

• Monitor the amounts of hazardous waste and arrange disposal as required with the approved contractor.

• Work closely with the Facilities Manager and the appointed site fire marshals to maintain and implement DCA’s fire policy, equipment and procedures, including organising fire drills. Support weekly fire alarm testing.

• Plan and carry out training sessions in relation to H&S matters, including induction, noise awareness, handling and lifting, and SWP training. Update DCA’s Training Database with staff training records as required.

• Plan, conduct and record the ongoing health and safety employee awareness programme for all staff.

• Provide support to the Facilities Manager to ensure full health, safety and fire legislative compliance of all contractor activity on our premises, including the application of Permits to Work.

• Help to develop and maintain all elements of DCA’s health and safety Management Systems.

• Assist with the formulation of the annual H&S budget and manage spend against the budget accordingly.

• Liaise with outside organisations and advisors, including co-operation with them during annual external H&S audits.

• Purchase, issue and record the distribution of appropriate PPE to staff.

• Approve COSHH related purchases and maintain safety data sheets (SDS) in line with DCA’s COSHH policy.

• Maintain and review records of all machine and equipment servicing and maintenance.

• Arrange and record external inspections and staff surveillance exercises as agreed with the Board or legally required (eg LEV, noise, air quality, occupational health surveillance).

• Maintain data shared via the staff access areas on the Company intranet.

• Maintain all the Health and Safety computer based and hard copy files and associated information.

Personal specification

The candidate should ideally have or be:

· Extensive knowledge of effective health and safety management systems and UK health and safety legislation.

· Motivated by change and driven by achieving results.

· Extensive senior level experience within health and safety including experience of implementing new and creative solutions to maximise performance.

· Experience of communicating effectively both verbally and in writing at a senior/board level.

· Proven ability in delivering projects, objectives and services against agreed deadlines and with the agreed performance objectives.

· Proven ability to build effective working relationships.

· Ability to influence and engage with a highly qualified and technically skilled workforce.

· Ability to deliver both positive and challenging messages to all levels of staff in a manner that achieves the desired results. Be confident in the delivery of the decisions made.

· Ability to contribute new ideas and ways of working.

· Ability to plan and prioritise work in line with agreed deadlines and objectives.

· Self-motivating and able to work on own initiative.

· High level of organisational and co-ordinating skills.

· Reliable and adaptable.

· Able to produce concise and accurate records and reports with a high level of attention to detail.

· IT Literate – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

· Hold a relevant degree, or equivalent combination of qualifications and experience.

· NEBOSH qualified