Health & Safety Manager in Derby

With a passion for life, join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge, we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers. Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

Health and Safety Manager Location: Office based in Derby Together we can make a difference. At Getinge, we are dedicated and passionate about helping our customers save lives and ensure excellent care. A career at Getinge provides career opportunities that both inspire and challenge. Here, you can make a difference every day.

Our cultural values reflect our Passion for Life vision. We incorporate our five core values in everything we do - Passion, Collaboration, Openness, Excellence and Ownership. Getinge, a global medical devices company, are looking to recruit a H&S Manager to join our Quadralene team based at our new UK Centre of Excellence in Derby. You will have full responsibility for all H&S related matters for Quadralene and our Centre of Excellence.

Job Purpose:

• To develop, implement, monitor and improve the organisation’s H&S Policy and related procedures.
• To maintain the H&S Management System.
• To ensure the organisation is fully compliant with relevant H&S legislation.
• To provide training, guidance, advice and support to managers and employees on all things H&S related.
• To audit and monitor H&S performance against legal requirements and company expectations, making recommendations for improvement.
• To lead the accident investigation process.
• To develop and support risk assessment activities.

Environment

• To promote a legally compliant and positive Environmental culture in keeping with the ethos and objectives of the company.
• To support the continual improvement of the organisation’s environmental performance.
• Develop policies to reduce waste, pollution, energy consumption and improve sustainability.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Health and Safety

• Interpret and apply H&S regulations.
• Advise, guide and work alongside managers and employees across all departments on the interpretation and application of H&S legislation relating to their activities.
• Provide guidance and training, as necessary, throughout the organisation in order to ensure compliance with existing and emerging regulations.
• Deliver new employee inductions in order to provide an understanding of the organisation’s H&S policy and procedures.
• Perform H&S audits and inspections to ensure that compliance is assured at all locations including customer premises.
• Carry out evaluation of legal compliance audits.
• Provide guidance and training regarding effective risk management for office and field-based employees.
• Source external H&S training for employees with specific H&S roles e.g. First Aiders.
• Review and evaluate current H&S training providers.
• Review existing Risk Assessments, Method Statements and Safe Systems of Work for all activities and make recommendations for improvement.
• Review and update existing COSHH assessments and carry out new assessments for new hazardous substances.
• Carry out incident investigations and produce precise and timely reports with root cause analysis and propose control measures to help prevent recurrence.
• Report accidents to the HSE (and HSA in Ireland) and insurance company when appropriate.
• Work with the Insurance company to reduce risk.
• Manage and motivate staff in line with company policies to ensure that they are fully effective in achieving company objectives.
• Provide support to H&S committees and chair meetings.
• Carry out management review with the Senior Management team. This will include summarizing H&S data and recommending improvement programs.

Environment

• Develop, Maintain and update the Environmental policy and procedures.
• Develop and promote policies to reduce waste, pollution, energy consumption and improve sustainability.
• Provide advice and guidance regarding WEEE (and other hazardous waste) disposal arrangements.
• Define and implement effective reporting processes (replacing various existing processes where necessary) e.g. WEEE submissions in UK and Ireland.
• Deliver new employee inductions in order to provide an understanding of the organisation’s Environmental Policies.
• Provide advice to stakeholders regarding arrangements for waste removal (e.g. from warehouse).
• Investigate any environmental incidents and report to the relevant authorities as necessary.
• Keep abreast of new Environmental regulations and inform the management team of any implications for the business.

Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

• Degree within a technical discipline with post-grad EHS qualifications and a minimum of Technical membership of IOSH.
• Thorough knowledge of health and safety and environmental legislation.
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards.
• Ability to develop and implement new and improved health and safety and environmental management processes.
• Have experience in leading and coaching management and working through improvements collaboratively.
• Ability to lead change programmes, with associated business communications.
• Highly effective communicator, good interpersonal skills at all levels within a complex organisation.
• Analytical and research skills.
• Motivated, tenacious, and keen to drive for results.

About us: With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.