Health Safety and Security Coordinator

May be the possibility of Hybrid (Dependant on candidate)

Key Skills: 2 Years Safety Related Experience, Health, Safety and security qualifications desired but not essential, understanding of risk assessments, willing to occasionally travel, excellent communication skills.

My client is the rapidly growing European subsidiary of a global Film company who specialise in lighting, rigging, generators, etc. The also own film studies as well as facilitate studios for other organisations.

They seek a reliable, self-motivated individual to work as a Health, Safety and Security Coordinator as part of the H&S department. You must be able to provide clarity when delegating instructions. You need to be highly organised and disciplined. You will elevate and maintain safety and security in the companies’ culture and operation. You will be supporting processes and procedures, assisting our teams, customers and helping the Senior Manager.

Key Duties

• Provide health and safety support and guidance to Studio Operations throughout the UK and Europe.
• Support Senior Manager with contracted safety and security suppliers.
• Monitor status, implementation, and maintenance of safety systems, across multiple sites.
• Work closely with Studio Management and other shared services to develop and implement safety programs.
• Keep policies up to date, meeting regulatory compliance and guidance.
• Assist with establishing new policies and procedures as the risk landscape evolves.
• Work with incoming productions to advise on transfer of liability and information exchange, pertinent to each license agreement, variable across different sites.
• Assist in developing emergency response procedures specific to each location’s utilisation mix.
• Monitor local studio facilities teams’ compliance procedures for the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order.
• Ensure site-based risk assessments are completed and mitigations are complete or in progress for all managed studio locations.
• Develop risk registers where risk information needs to be communicated to internal and external partners.
• Manage local facilities teams’ implementation of permit to work systems and other customer and contractor controls.
• Respond to issues relating to health, safety, environment, emergency response, performance metrics, and safety management systems for operations on all sites. Including developing triage and investigation processes.
• Assist with developing safety programs for our studios as the company grows.
• Schedule and organise regular safety training and orientations.
• Clearly communicate and implement safety requirements to site and property leadership.
• Liaise with the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) and other European agencies and local Fire Authorities to ensure requirements are met and exceeded and relationships are upheld.

• Other duties as created and assigned.

Person Specification

• Health, safety, and security qualifications would be desirable.
• Willingness to learn on the job and keep striving to improve skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of safety risk assessments and mitigations.
• Mainly working at Barking & Dagenham site, but a willingness to travel to other sites occasionally.
• 2+ years of Safety related experience.
• 1+ years of management and training experience.
• Solid understanding of Health and safety requirements for the entertainment (or related) industry.
• Must have good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with common access control, CCTV, and alarm systems.

Key Skills: 2 Years Safety Related Experience, Health, Safety and security qualifications desired but not essential, understanding of risk assessments, willing to occasionally travel, excellent communication skills.