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Job Description
Health & Safety Lead responsible for ensuring a safe working environment, collaborating with site management and operations teams, and maintaining compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as primary point of contact for all Health & Safety matters and liaise with regulatory authorities as needed.
- Maintain a strong presence on-site, actively supporting and engaging with site management and operations teams on health and safety initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with the operations team to address key priorities, enhance compliance, and implement industry best practices.
- Provide regular updates on assigned KPIs, both weekly and monthly.
- Complete safety scorecards and work with site management to drive performance improvements.
- Coordinate with Site Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to manage process changes, ensuring that potential risks are identified and mitigated.
- Assist the operations team in identifying Capex needs and ensure all changes are risk assessed and managed effectively.
- Maintain and periodically test Emergency Response Plans and provisions.
- Develop and oversee the execution of approved audit programs, ensuring timely completion of all regulatory audit actions.
- Conduct Health & Safety risk assessments, implement control measures, and maintain up-to-date safety statements and risk registers.
- Organize, schedule, and execute Health & Safety audits, tracking all resulting issues and actions.
- Ensure compliance with Health & Safety training plans and monitor adherence to training requirements.
- Develop and implement Health & Safety policies and procedures that meet both legal standards and best practice guidelines.
- Adapt and respond to Health & Safety challenges in a dynamic work environment with a flexible and proactive approach.
- Promptly report and thoroughly investigate all Health & Safety accidents, incidents, and near misses.
- Identify, implement, and close out corrective and preventative actions using Continuous Improvement (CI) tools.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar Health & Safety role within an FMCG or manufacturing environment.
- A third-level qualification in a relevant field.
Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.
Skills: Health & Safety, Environmental Health & Safety, FMCG