Senior Health & Safety Specialist

Essential Employment; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading employment agency is looking for a Senior Health & Safety Specialist in Bristol. This temporary full-time position involves leading health and safety practices for highway services, resource management for compliance, and monitoring performance. The ideal candidate will engage with stakeholders, develop policies, and ensure adherence to health and safety regulations. The role offers a competitive pay rate of £40 per hour, contributing to a positive health and safety culture within the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in health & safety regulations and practices.
• Ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Expertise in developing health & safety policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead health & safety for highway services.
• Resource management for compliance.
• Monitor and improve health & safety performance.

Skills

Health & Safety Compliance

Risk Management

Policy Development

Communication Skills

Job description

Senior Health & Safety Specialist needed in Bristol Paying £40 per hr ref 366712

Full time hours on a temporary basis

About the Role

Lead health & safety specialist for all matters relating to the highway service, ensuring all measures are considered and actions undertaken to manage risks arising from the service’s activities.

Resource manage staff to ensure compliance with health & safety procedures while promoting a positive health & safety culture.

Liaise with other StreetCare services to ensure consistency of health and safety practices across the division and provide additional resources when necessary.

Act as a competent person as required by regulation 7 of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Engage at all levels to lead on the development of service policy and procedures, set priorities, support implementation, monitor health & safety performance, and intervene where necessary to ensure statutory requirements are met and good standards are achieved.

Build a business case for required interventions, identifying resource and budget requirements, and monitoring agreed resource and budget.

Adhere to corporate health & safety policies, including reporting requirements.

Be a critical expert member of the project team for the CRSTS Highways project, ensuring documentation is developed and kept up-to-date.

Main Activities

Policy: Work with project and operational teams to proactively identify needs to develop policies and procedures, set priorities, and develop service-specific health & safety management plans.

Operational Support: Provide expert health & safety advice, implement policy, manage risk, identify trends in noncompliance, and elevate appropriately. Support line managers in managing incidents and their consequences.

Monitoring: Monitor health & safety performance, analyse trends, recommend corrective actions, and set priorities for health & safety improvement. Escalate non-compliance concerns appropriately.

Liaison: Work closely with the Corporate Health & Safety Team and external parties such as enforcement agencies, partner organizations, contractors, managers, local councillors, the general public, employees, and employee representatives, including Trade Unions.