Health and Safety Co-ordinator

Purpose of the Job

Working to improve health & safety performance of the Client and its contractors to ultimately raise the bar in health and safety within the industry. The post-holder is to support the Health & Safety Team in promoting health & safety management and performance. They are to work closely with the Health and Safety Generalists to ensure integration of the Target Zero culture into daily work programmes.

Principal Accountabilities

Support the Health and Safety team in sharing good practice. This will include creating and distributing Health and Safety Alerts and Good Practice Bulletins.

Participate in Gateway Scheme assessments and assist in completion of associated reports.

Assisting with the logistics and administration for Health and Safety Initiatives such as Stepping Up Week and Have Your Say.

General administration including producing and distributing of periodic reports and look-ahead documents.

Analyse and interpret accident/incident data from our incident management database (RIVO Safeguard).

Aid in the delivery of Target Zero initiatives across the area of responsibility maintaining a common approach with other health & safety teams.

Provide review of photos and videos for external release as necessary.

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 Target Zero principles.

Co-operate in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe working procedures at all times.

Act as a role model for vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment with 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 information or information systems at risk.

Act as PA to H&S Director

Main challenges of the job

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 as well as internal stakeholders in order to engage them to raise the bar.

Multiple contractor interfaces with varying levels of safety performance.

Person Specification

Experience in construction health & safety.

Experience of producing health and safety communications.

Experience of producing health and safety reports.

Excellent people skills required.

Ability to work under own initiative as well as contribute to and support Health and Safety Team objectives.