Health and Safety Officer

SF Recruitment have partnered with an organisation in Tamworth who are looking for a Health and Safety Officer to join them on a permanent basis. The objective of this role is to Maintain a safe working environment for all employees and promoting a positive health and safety culture in the work place.

Salary: £40-£54k
Working pattern: full time office based

This role is responsible for maintaining and promoting a health and safety culture in the workplace through implementation of guidelines established by regulatory bodies, and direction from management.

Result areas will include:

- Timely completion of regular safety reports and statistics for management review
-Evaluate and interpret results of reporting, audits, corrective actions, operations reports and key performance indicators (KPIs), ensuring mechanisms are in place to enable accurate measurement, reporting and rectification- identifying gaps for improvement and developing mitigation plane with operations to support rectification.
- Direct preparation of external ISO 14001 & 45001 and other applicable standards.
- Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of new HSE (Health, Safety and environment) legislation as well as other developments that can impact our business
- Implement and continue drive for psychological and physiological wellbeing (mental health) of all staff.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous improvements/improving working processes.
- Manage workflow of Warehouse Trainer to ensure staff are educated, trained and competent to carry out their roles and assist in reducing risk and likelihood of accidents and incidents through training and monitoring.

Key tasks will include:

- Provide health and safety courses for employees to educate them on necessary safety procedure (e.g. manual handling, MHE, Hazardous training, Fire Marshall, first aid etc.)
- Monitor work processes to identify unsafe practices or breach of safety regulations.
- Monitor and assist with the creation and coordination of the inspection and audit schedule, undertake and provide support for operational health, safety, wellbeing and environmental inspections and audits.
- Provide input and participate in the development of new and any updates to existing standards. -
- Organise safety training to induct and educate company staff
- Develop effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholders.
- Manage contractors and consultants in all aspects of health and safety education.