Health & Safety Advisor

Ricoh; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative global technology business is seeking a Health & Safety Advisor to enhance workplace safety and compliance. This role involves collaborating with the Health and Safety Team to implement H&S practices, manage risk assessments, and maintain compliance with ISO 45001 standards. You will play a pivotal role in fostering a safety-first culture across the organization, ensuring that all employees are informed and engaged in health and safety practices. If you're passionate about creating a safer work environment and have a solid background in health and safety legislation, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking company.

Benefits

Car allowance

Bonus

Additional company benefits

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of H&S legislation and ISO 45001 standards.
• Experience in developing risk assessments and safe systems of work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the H&S Team to ensure compliance and drive a safety-first culture.
• Manage and implement risk assessments and safe systems of work.

Skills

Health & Safety legislation knowledge

Risk assessment development

Practical H&S solutions

Collaboration with H&S teams

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Tools

ISO 45001 management systems

SharePoint

Job description

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Role: Health & Safety Advisor
Located: Northampton (Hybrid)
Package: Competitive salary (dependent upon experience), car allowance, plus bonus and additional company benefits

About Ricoh:

Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry–leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.

Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative, enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.

What you will be doing

• To work collaboratively with the Health and Safety Team carrying out day to day H&S activities to ensure compliance of H&S practices, driving a H&S People First Culture and proactively sharing their knowledge and experiences to help improve the overall H&S at Ricoh.
• To proactively apply the IS45001 standard updating and improving the OH&S management system to reflect where RUK is as a business today and the work activities that it undertakes, this includes all policies, procedures, legal registers and all other associated documents to be reviewed and brought up to date.
• To work closely with the Health and Safety Manager to manage and implement all Risk Assessments and Safe systems of work activity to ensure they are of a good quality, completed within a reasonable timeframe and sufficient in terms of our standards.
• To manage the administration and co–ordination of all RUK H&S documentation available to all employees via the SharePoint folder on the Ricoh Intranet to ensure transparency, guidance and clarity around any Health Safety queries.
• To support the Health and Safety manager in driving a Health Safety First culture across the business, creating more consciousness around H&S practices, manager and employee responsibilities across all areas of Ricoh UK to ensure we are living safety first culture.
• To perform audits/reviews on different areas of the business to determine where H&S performance currently sits and implement corrective actions to address these areas.
• To manage the due diligence of sub–contractor information to ensure they have all documentation in place, following the recently implemented supplier assessment procedure that ensures contractors have required competence to undertake work on RUK's behalf.
• To understand the impact in retaining H&S accreditations such as ISO 45001, CHAS and Safecontractor. SSIP and escalate any areas to the Health and Safety manager where there are any H&S concerns that could impact these accreditations.

You will ideally have

• Good understanding of H&S legislation
• Previous experience with OH&S management systems (ISO45001).
• Ability to develop and implement high quality risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Confident in providing practical solutions in relation to H&S
• Qualification: NEBOSH General Certificate or higher

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non–membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.

To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee–led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs.

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