Health & Safety Advisor

Job Title: Health & Safety Advisor

Location: Manchester

Salary: GBP35,000 – GBP45,000

The Client

Our client is an interior fit–out and refurbishment construction business with extensive experience in delivering commercial office refurbishments. They are looking for a Health & Safety Advisor to join their team.

The Role of Health & Safety Advisor

The Health and Safety Advisor is responsible for ensuring our client has a safe and compliant work environment at all times by actively maintaining health and safety standards and minimizing risks through regular audits, updating risk assessments, and providing comprehensive health and safety support and advice to all stakeholders. They monitor and report against the Company Safety Management System and assist in ensuring that our client remains in line with both company and statutory requirements.

• Develop, review and update project and company risk assessments.
• Attend sites, carry out and issue regular health and safety audits (i–Audits).
• Review construction phase plans and associated compliance documentation for pre–contract and post–contract submission.
• Provide health and safety advice and support to the pre–contracts team, subcontractors (where necessary), and delivery teams.
• Coach and assist the Design team in their ongoing compliance with the CDM Regulations (design risk avoidance).
• Advise subcontractors on the suitability of their RAMS / SSOWs and ensure the completion of the approval process through regular audit.
• Assist the SHE Manager in the setting of Company H&S targets and objectives.
• Support the annual submission for the RoSPA safety award entry.
• Construct and deliver high–quality reports in relation to accidents and incidents (as required).
• Issue monthly accident and incident statistics to the Delivery Team and Board members using the H&S Dashboard.
• Assist Compliance Manager with ISO re–audits (bi–annually).
• Completion of Site Waste Plans for projects.
• Support Compliance Manager in the issuing and review of pre–qualification questionnaires to ensure the supply chain is meeting regulatory and company standards prior to carrying out any work on behalf of our client.

Requirements:

• NEBOSH Construction Qualification is essential.
• Background experience in health and safety within the construction industry including fit–out and built environment experience.
• High degree of knowledge and understanding of the current CDM Regulations.
• Good knowledge of safe access systems (knowledge and experience of tube and fit and mobile tower scaffolding essential).
• Experience of advising on asbestos management.
• Show up-to-date knowledge of technical developments in legislation and in risk management / health and safety issues.
• Experience in providing advice and support to business in design risk avoidance & ongoing risk management.
• Interest in providing advice and support to Pre–con team to assist with tenders and gathering pre–construction information.
• Ability to produce clear, high–quality verbal and written reports.
• Ability to plan and manage time / tasks / priorities to tight deadlines.
• Able to show knowledge, resilience, and confidence in confrontational situations.
• Able to cope with peaks and troughs in workload.
• Comfortable using a conciliatory and relationship-building approach to progress cultural change.