Health & Safety Manager

Based in the Standish area, our client is looking for an experienced Health & Safety Manager, who will be ensuring compliance with government and legal regulations through policy enforcement or adherence to legal guidelines.

The Health & Safety Manager will ensure the effectiveness of the EHS Department. To contribute to the executive decision-making processes to ensure a commitment to achieve progressively higher standards within the company and move it towards being the best in its field of activities and to be an advocate for improvement and change across all its functions and at all levels.

As the Health & Safety Manager, you will promote a positive climate in which the EHS department is seen by management, employees, neighbours, customers, and other off-site agencies as being fundamental to the company’s day to day operations. Ensuring that policies, programmes, systems, procedures and registrations are developed and maintained to meet company and regulatory environmental assurance requirements.

You will ensure current awareness with relevant environmental issues is maintained through liaison with the Chemical Industries Association and other organisations.

Health & Safety Manager Responsibilities: 

Management, Implementation and Communication of the Management Systems [45001]

Accident and incident investigations, report findings and identify countermeasures to prevent reoccurrence by RCA and Risk Management; identification of hazard and planning of action to remove or reduce

Acknowledge, Investigate, and resolve non-conformance

Implementation, communication, and Review of Audit requirements, both internal and external

Required to keep up-to-date with legislation and industry best practices and prepare, and communicate changes, highlighting any risk or operations requirements

Management of Legislation Register, ensuring of site compliance through documented checks and protocol.

Organise all required H&S training programmes for relevant site personnel.

Develop, implement, and manage regulations under the Health and Safety at work act 1974 safety programs (Confined Space Entry, LOTO, Safe Isolation of plant, Hazard Communication, Emergency Response, Fall Protection, Respiratory Protection, Hearing Conservation, etc.) to ensure compliance with applicable health and safety standards.

H&S duties around the safety complaint operations of the facility, completion, and communication of any required documentation to any third party [or interested party]

Site safety protocol including, communication and awareness to all who access the site and or restricted areas, site signage, and access is gained via suitable procedure through induction of different access requirements; staff, delivery, visitor, consultant, and contractor ensuring other staff understand their role and responsibility in the management of safe operation of the site ensuring awareness of hazard and required protocol.

Coordinate and lead the site safety committee activities.

To assist the Process Safety team in process hazard assessments (PHA), including HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, HFA, and the development of ALARP demonstrations, as required under COMAH.

Liaise with all interested parties; enforcing competent authorities on H&S matters, the Emergency Services, to arrange regular Emergency Drills to enable the testing and review of the on-site Emergency Response Plan, and development and maintenance of the off-site Emergency Response Plan with the local Emergency Planning authority.

To act as Fire Officer for the site, and to ensure site fire risk assessments are up to date and necessary control measures are implemented, monitored, and reviewed.

Report and communicate department performance, risk, and opportunity to senior management.

Manage the sites COSHH Assessment process, including carrying out of such assessments.

To carry out any reasonable requests within the work environment in the interests and support of the company that may not specifically detailed above.

Develop, implement, and manage regulations under the health and safety at work act 1974 safety programs (Confined Space Entry, LOTO, Safe Isolation of plant, Asbestos, Hazard Communication, Hazard Waste Management, Emergency Response, Fall Protection, Respiratory Protection, Hearing Conservation, etc.) to ensure compliance with applicable health and safety standards.

Health & Safety Manager Essential / Knowledge / Experience / Qualifications:

Model and promote an organisational culture that fosters safety.     

Completion and management of risk assessments including COSHH     

Ability to lead scenario training and emergency drills   

Knowledge of 45001     

Lead audits  

Essential Qualifications:

Educated to Degree Level in Relevant Subject 

NEBOSH Level 3 certificate   

IOSH Managing Safely   

Health & Safety Manager Desirable / Knowledge / Experience / Qualifications:

Good working knowledge of the chemical industry and associated                                           

Chair meetings or committees                                         

Experience of a COMAH site                                            

Experience in a similar role  

Presenting to groups including senior management         

Co-ordination of site training

Desirable qualifications:

Supervisory / Management Qualification (ILM, NEBS) 

Lead Auditor 45001, 14001 and 9001

Benefits:

Location: Standish

Hours: Monday to Friday either 8am – 4pm or 9am – 5pm        

Contract type:  Permanent (subject to 6 month’s probation period)

Salary:  £48K  Per Annum     

If you are interested in the Health & Safety Manager role, and feel you have the right skills and experience, please click the link to ‘Apply’