Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

• Responsibility for the co-ordination of all environment, health & safety and security matters, applicable to the Ballymacarbry and Ballymount sites.
• Promote health, safety and welfare at work.
• Recommend, implement and ensure compliance with policies and current safety and environmental legislative requirements.
• Ensure emergency preventative activities are undertaken and ensure accidents and incidents are investigated and preventative measures are implemented.
• Provide relevant EHS Training as required.
• Recommend and review health and safety policies to ensure compliance with new and existing legislation.
• Ensure environmental objectives and targets are set and achieved throughout the organisation.
• Advise and monitor the implementation of safe systems of work encompassing current legislative requirements.
• Recommend and implement safety and environmental risk assessments and determine acceptable risk levels.
• Have an active role in visits from inspectors and provide information and evidence as required.
• Recommend and implement emergency policies and ensure specific control systems meet required standards.
• Ensure accidents and incidents are investigated as per policy, make recommendations and ensure agreed corrective actions are implemented.
• Provide statistics to management and health and safety committee.
• Advise on potential health risks at work, health of employees, health promotion.
• Facilitate in carrying out training for the site.
• Ensure risk assessment and approval process of introducing new chemicals to site is completed.
• Ensuring Safety Data Sheets are up to date.
• Ensure adequate trained First Aid cover and provisions on site at all times.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive process safety management strategy (PSM) for the site.
• Manage Occupational Hygiene campaigns and engineering control improvement projects.
• Management of Environmental Licenses & certifications, reporting and renewals.
• Ensure Directors and Managers are aware of their legal requirements and identify to them and shortfalls of our safety management systems.
• Monitor, audit and review policies and procedures to ensure current legislative requirements are met and safe systems or work are being maintained.
• Ensure environmental information is available for review.
• Carry out external and internal environmental audits to ensure Pinewood meets the required standards.
• Implement and maintain the company risk assessment management system and carry out risk assessments for working procedures and operating equipment. Determine and advise on acceptable risk levels.
• Provide information to inspectors and emergency services as appropriate.
• Provide support during customer audits.
• Maintenance of first aid provisions, training and supplies.
• Collation and presentation of statistics of injury or ill health at work.
• Ensure all new starters are fully inducted to site to minimise potential safety and health risks and records of attendance to be fed back to HR.

• Formal H&S qualification, minimum degree level.
• Extensive knowledge of Health & Safety legislation.
• Extensive knowledge of Process Safety and ATEX Directives.
• Knowledge of relevant environmental legislation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to work with all levels of staff, contractors or customers.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft suite.
• Have sufficient knowledge to advise on day to day operational EHS issues and apply knowledge in a team environment with personnel from other functions and different levels of the organisation.
• Strong capability of driving safety culture in a multinational environment.

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