Health and Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager - Southern region (from Cambridgeshire down to Essex/Kent - multi-site) - £65-£75k+package - global construction/infrastructure main contractor with an excellent reputation for Health and Safety.

Duties
• Initiate and maintain positive measures to raise standards, ensuring the company complies with OHSAS 18001 obligations, health & safety legislation and all minimum health & safety standards
• Support the monitoring of sites through the audit process, in a proactive manner to address any issues.
• Establish a system to ensure that all personnel on site, to work or to visit, have received a site induction briefing before going on site. Ensure the induction is regularly updated to reflect current site hazards/conditions.
• Ensure effective investigations take place to prevent accidents & incidents, whilst ensuring effective learning from all events are presented to the head of HSEQ for wider business distribution.
• Ensure a construction phase health & safety plan is prepared and accepted before works start and make sure the plan is continually updated.
• Introduce initiatives to improve standards and ensure safe working, whilst focusing on the proactive side of health & safety management.
• Identify, promote and where required, implement health & safety best practice.
• Participate in supporting the business with regards to tenders and pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ’s) and tender submissions, as designated by Senior Safety Manager/Preconstruction Team.
• Work with the supply chain to establish effective relationships and ensure continuous improvement in delivering safety solutions.
• In cases of difference of opinion on health & safety issues, lead negotiations to reach the best solution for the project.
• Ensure a schedule of weekly health & safety inspections is established and monitored, including operational staff, senior management and support services.
• Ensure effective assessments of the site are carried out prior to the start of any work, focusing on potential hazards e.g. services, access, ground conditions, etc.

Person Specification
• Previous experience as a Health and Safety Manager working on infrastructure projects
• NEBOSH General or NEBOSH Construction Certificate or NVQ L3 in Health and Safety as a minimum, ideally Grad/CMIOSH or working towards
• IEMA Foundation Certificate