Health and Safety Manager in Acton

As the Health and Safety Manager, you will play a key role in leading the health and safety efforts across the Anthro JV work packages. You will be a key figure in supporting the development and implementation of the health and safety strategy, ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, and promoting an ethos of collaboration and shared purpose across the Anthro JV activities.
Working closely with the Anthro delivery teams and client H&S teams, you will provide expert advice, support and guidance on health and safety matters, ensuring the project team adhere to the Anthro JV policies, procedures and client requirements in the delivery of the works.

Responsibilities

• Promote, champion and implement across HS2 projects and offices, the Wellbeing component of the Anthro Safe, Sustainable and Wellbeing Strategy.
• Provide support, guidance and advice on health and wellbeing matters, in-line with VVB / Anthro Management Systems and Customer/ Principal Contractor requirements.
• Conduct focused project site health and wellbeing training as required.
• Conduct health focused monitoring as required.
• Provide coaching and instruction to the Project employees and contractors with regards to health, and wellbeing.
• Provide support, guidance and advice to both office and site location on health matters, in-line with our H&S Policies and Procedures.

Safety

• Promote, champion and implement across HS2 projects and offices, the Safe component of the VVB / Anthro Safe, Sustainable and Wellbeing Strategy.
• Provide support, guidance and advice on safety matters, in-line with VVB / Anthro Integrated Management Systems (IMS).
• Provide support, guidance and advice to both office and site locations on safety matters, in-line with our IMS Policies and Procedures.
• Conduct weekly site safety inspections, ensuring any action plans implemented have been communicated with the Project Manager/s and subsequently implemented on the project site.
• Conduct procedural and management system focused audits and reviews.
• Review project site Work Package Plans, Task Briefing Sheets, method statements and risk assessments, including associated plans in line with planned work activities.
• Generate and conduct toolbox talks, generate and brief safety alerts and assist in customer/ principal contractor briefings when called upon.
• Provide coaching and instruction to VVB / Anthro health and safety advisors, VVB / Anthro Project employees and contractors with regards to safety.
• Ensure all incidents, observations and suggestions are correctly reported, where necessary investigated, and support provided to the project teams to close out and address issues raised.
• Asist in the generation, review and maintenance of project specific documentation
• Attend and provide health, safety and wellbeing input at Principal Contractor/ Customer Project safety meetings.
• Attend and provide health and safety input at Business Sector/ Project Meetings.
• Communicate to the VVB Head of Health and Safety HS2 on matters of health, safety and environment including updates on Asite (Reporting System).
• Maintain project specific Health, Safety and Environmental performance indicators including customer indicators.

Work Winning/ Project Mobilisation

• On award of contract, actively assist in mobilising contracts through:
• Producing key project documentation such as the Health and Safety Management Plan, RAMS Schedules
• Constructing project induction and training presentations
• Establishing relationships with key stakeholders such as the customer HSE Teams
• Establishing KPI Metrics and success measures.

Requirements

• In depth and demonstratable understanding of health and safety legislation.
• Working and demonstratable understanding of electrical and mechanical standards.
• Working and demonstratable understanding of industry/ customer standards linked to NWR, LUL, National highways, UKPN.
• In depth knowledge of CDM.
• Demonstrable experience of ISO 45001.
• Sound Construction Industry Knowledge.
• NEBOSH Cert.
• CSCS/ ECS card – Safety Related.
• IOSH Certified Level Membership.

Full UK driver’s license.
Good IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).