Health & Safety Specialist - Improvements | Health, Safety & Environmental

To improve health & safety performance of the Client and its contractors to ultimately raise the bar in health and safety within the industry.

• Support the Health & Safety Improvements Manager; this including assisting with the Client reporting function to promote improvements in health & safety management and performance.
• Work closely with site teams, contractors and other directorates to ensure integration of the Client Target Zero culture into daily work programmes.
• Work with contractors to drive health & safety improvements and share good practice.
• Conducting assessments, supporting the contractors in the development of an improvement plan, analysing the results of the and developing programme-wide initiatives based on the findings.
• Facilitate and coordinate improvement projects to drive change in areas identified through incident investigation and H&S statistical trend analysis.
• Support Client's and the contractor community's behavioural based safety, leadership and workforce engagement programmes to drive effectiveness within the programmes.
• Assist with sharing of best practice, positive safety performance and learning from incidents (e.g. through the development of alerts; supporting construction in their bi-weekly incident review call and the development and roll out of health and safety campaigns).
• Deliver Target Zero initiatives across the area of responsibility maintaining a common approach with other health & safety teams.
• Support health and safety communications with the development of toolbox talks and alerts, and the review of photos and videos for external release as necessary.
• Conduct investigations into level 1 & 2 incidents as required.
• Support the reporting and data analysis of the team including deputising for the H&S Reporting Manager.
• Take reasonable care of your own and others' health and safety and of those who may be affected in the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working to the Client Target Zero principles.
• Co-operate with Client in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe working procedures at all times.
• Act as a role model for Client's vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment with Client's Ways of Working. Encourage and support others to do so too.
• Promote equality in the workplace and adopt appropriate behaviour when interacting with colleagues.
• Take necessary care to properly protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate information from unauthorised disclosure, modification or destruction. Never knowingly put Client's information or information systems at risk.
• Take reasonable care of your own and others' health and safety and of those who may be affected in the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working to the Client Target Zero principles.
• Co-operate with Client in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe working procedures at all times
• Act as a role model for Client's vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment with Client's Ways of Working. Encourage and support others to do so too
• Promote equality in the workplace and adopt appropriate behaviour when interacting with colleagues
• Take necessary care to properly protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate information from unauthorised disclosure, modification or destruction. Never knowingly put Client's information or information systems at risk

• Balancing a variety of priorities to ensure timely delivery in accordance with agreed deadlines.
• Developing a collaborative approach to encouraging improvements in health & safety performance.
• Winning the hearts and minds of the contractor community in order to engage them to raise the bar.
• Multiple contractor interfaces with varying levels of safety performance.

4. Person Specification

• Experience in heavy construction health & safety management (rail infrastructure project experience preferable but not essential).
• NEBOSH, or equivalent as minimum and competence in delivering H&S advice.
• Experience of various behavioural based safety, leadership and workforce engagement programmes.
• Experience of process analysing safety data and producing reports
• Experience of incident investigation
• Excellent people skills required.
• Ability to work under own initiative as well as contribute to and support Health and Safety Improvement Team objectives.