Health and Safety Officer
Lincoln Recruitment
- Co Westmeath
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assume accountability for the health and safety of employees across sites driving improvements across all areas of production while developing processes that help promote a strong health and safety culture and reduce accidents
- Develop relationships both internally (employees) and with key external (Safety bodies, government agencies, auditors, suppliers) stakeholders and develop Health and safety polices and standards
- Lead, coach and develop teams on health and safety policies, procedures, and risk assessments
- Organise and conduct health and safety training, including induction training, refresher training and manual handling
- Develop training tools to drive awareness and implementation of health and safety initiatives
- Lead initiatives to increase and develop best practice safety solutions, ensuring that there is communication across the business and a mentality of continuous improvement
- Manage the company’s health and safety performance by creating a health and safety metrics, track and manage delivery against agreed timeline and communicate progress to internal stakeholders
- Lead health and safety incident and accident investigations to determine root cause and define preventative and corrective action
- Assist with the reduce claims and insurance cost by actively completing risk assessment, assessing workplace hazards, reducing / eliminating risks through safe working procedure
- Degree in Health and Safety or a related discipline
- 1-2 years’ H&S experience working in a manufacturing environment (desirable, but not essential)
- Membership with IOSH to at least Graduate Level (Grad IOSH)
- Manual Handling Instructor (Desirable, but not essential)
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Good organisation and leadership skills