Job vacancy - Health & Safety Manager

Position: Health & Safety Manager
Reference: acsRhsm
Location: Taunton
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 per annum
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Job Title: Health & Safety Manager

You will need to be proactive in your approach to providing effective Health and Safety guidance and support to the Site Director, Management team and to site operatives to ensure all employees are working in a safe environment. You will develop and maintain standards in line with the requirements of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management standard and to take the lead with all external ISO 14001 audits.

Responsibilities:

  • To maintain and further enhance the existing health and safety management system that covers the requirements of HSG65 2013 of: Plan, Do, Check, Act
  • Annual review of the Health and Safety policy
  • Developing a site health and safety action plan that covers, the site accident and ill health history, risk management and annual reviews, enhancing the current safe systems of working and annual reviews of these safe systems, reviews of the chemical risk management throughout the site
  • Statutory inspection and monitoring to ensure compliance with UK health and safety legislation
  • Measuring performance via good inspection and monitoring and also learning from accidents
  • Carrying out internal audits/inspections against the company health and safety policy and reviewing our activities to check that we have achieved our plan, and we do what we say we do
  • Ensure all personnel receive effective and relevant safety induction training and annual safety refresher training
  • To manage the security contract for the site and liaise with security contractor and their security guards

Requirements:

  • A relevant professional qualification e.g. NEBOSH Certificate
  • Experience within a Health and Safety type job role
  • Confidence with dealing with external parties such as the Health and Safety Executive, Fire and Rescue Service, Property Conversation Insurers and Employee Liability Insurers
  • Good organisational and communications skills
  • Well presented with good time keeping
  • Full Driving License and a willingness to travel to other sites

ACS are recruiting for a Health & Safety Manager. If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Health & Safety Manager, please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Health & Safety Manager. It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as a Health & Safety Manager with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Health & Safety Manager role you desire.