Health & Safety Advisor
Health & Safety Advisor - Bury - £32k - £35k per annum plus company benefits
Our client is a well established and successful food production company based in the Bury area; due to their continued success they are expanding their team and recruiting for an experience Health & Safety Advisor to join their existing team.
Main responsibilities of the role include:
- Drive a health & safety culture within the working environment
- Develop, implement and monitor the Environmental and Safety Management System, procedures, documentation and audit system.
- Responsible for undertaking EH&S compliance evaluations inspections and audits in line with requirements, co-ordinate outputs and liaise with site management to ensure actions are completed.
- Identify risks and carry out appropriate risk assessments in all areas.
- Produce regular reports and statistics on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
- Develop and train a team of H&S reps, meeting regularly with them to monitor progression.
- Monitor and investigate accidents/near misses and review statistics to establish underlying causes.
- Monitor, review and develop the Health & Safety and Environmental policy.
- Carry out EH&S inductions with all new starters and contractors.
The successful candidate should possess the following skills / qualifications / experience:
- IOSH managing safely
- Health & Safety Management experience
- Environmental compliance experience
- NEBOSH general certificate
- Up to date first aid certificate (essential)
- Knowledge of Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work completion
- Experience in the Health & Safety supervision of site activities
- Computer literate
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good written and verbal communication skills
Benefits include: free parking, company events, employee discounts, health and wellbeing programme and ongoing career progression.
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