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An opportunity for a Regional Safety Partner to join a UK leading food wholesaler. Reporting to the Regional Director you'll play an essential role ensuring five of their sites are legally compliant, aligned to company Health & Safety standards and support with improving their health & safety performance by working closely with the Regional Director to drive improvements.
Furthermore, you will provide focussed support around operational risk and change projects and undertake compliance audits and support cultural change in the region to ensure risk ownership is embedded across the operations teams.
Responsibilities of the Regional Safety Partner
- Manage the development of the regional safety plan in conjunction with the Regional Director and operations teams, whilst working closely with the regional People Partner, ensuring plans are aligned to promote and support cultural improvements
- Manage the completion of company-wide risk assessments and local workplace transport assessments, providing coaching, guidance and support to operational teams on risk priorities and the suitability of controls. Develop content for safe systems of work.
- Lead root cause analysis with operations teams on serious and high potential incidents and use information available on incident trends to prioritise support and focus and use more widely to address root causes
- Manage the regional audit programme and lead site audits
- Delivery of regional H&S training Including (but not limited to) incident investigation, contractor management and risk assessment
- Develop and deliver monthly regional Health & Safety performance reviews with Regional Director which includes progress against key organisational and regional KPIs and the review of progress against the workplace transport safety improvement plan and regional safety plan
- Manage safety aspects of operational risk and change projects
- Manage safety aspects of any new site in the region, including overseeing the execution of the start-up plan and delivery and facilitation of any Health & Safety training
- Attend regional warehouse and transport forums and promote the safety culture and plan
- Lead all EHO enforcement visits in the region and manage any actions that result
- Complete collaborative safety "walk and talks" with operations team and provide coaching and support to increase the effectiveness of safety conversations
Regional Safety Partner skills and experiences:
- Professionally qualified Health & Safety Manager; NEBOSH Diploma as a minimum
- Membership of IOSH
- Experience in the management of an ISO 45001 certified system
- Highly competent in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and ideally Canva
- Ability to impact and influence at all levels, particularly at senior levels
- Highly credible presence at senior management level
- Management of change projects
- Communicate at all levels through varied media
- Skilled in health & safety management theory and application
- High level of report writing and documentation skills
The Package:
On offer is a £50 - £55,000 basic salary, £7,300 car allowance, company pension scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, private healthcare, plus excellent company benefits scheme.
