Health and Safety Advisor

Location: West Bromwich

Salary: Circa £40k

A local metal fabrication company are now looking for a Health and Safety Advisor to join their team.

Under the support of a HSE Manager, your role as the health and safety advisor is to facilitate and support the site on HSE matters. You will work proactively with managers, supervisors and employees across all levels and help improve / sustain the HSE culture across the business.

Health and Safety Advisor - Main Responsibilities:

• Advise Management on HSE issues and ensure compliance with UK legislation.
• Monitor and report on HSE performance and collate and report monthly HSE statistics.
• Assist the HSE Manager with managing the HSE committee meetings.
• Co-ordinate risk assessment schedule and risk reduction measures.
• Undertake HSE audits, prepare action plans and track progress.
• Deliver general HSE training to all levels of employee, including at induction.
• Assist the HSE Manager in implementing the Corporate Health, Safety and Environmental Policies across the plant.
• Assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of a health & safety roadmap / action plan for the Plant
• Assist line managers to investigate accidents / incidents in a timely manner and ensure any subsequent corrective actions are identified, valid, and implemented.
• Assist line managers in implementing health & safety systems and procedures to meet specific requirements, such as accident reporting, manual handling, LOTO and control of substance hazardous to health (COSHH), in a consistent and effective manner.

Health and Safety Advisor – Person Requirements:

The ideal candidate MUST come from the Manufacturing Industry as a Health and Safety Advisor. You will also have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• Hold a NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent in Health and Safety
• Member of IOSH
• Experience working within a manufacturing ideally, Metals, Fabrication or precision machining
• Direct experience of accident and incident investigation
• Up to date and practical working knowledge of PUWER, Supply of machinery regulations, machinery directives and other engineering-based standards and legislation.

For more information please call Paul Gorton on (phone number removed).

LEAN Engineering Recruitment Ltd are acting as a 3rd party on behalf of our client.  All applications will be held on our database for current and future positions. 

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard from LER within 10 working days then your application has been unsuccessful but please feel free to contact us for an update.