As a Health and Safety Manager, you will hold overall responsibility for the health and safety approach in the Environment directorate. This includes directly delivered services in waste management, street cleansing and grounds maintenance, as well as contracted services in Parking, Highways and Street Lighting.
You will work directly with senior leaders and managers to provide assurance and ensure legal compliance.
You will work closely with the Executive Director of Environment, as well as the corporate Head of Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHaW) team. You will hold responsibility for the Health and Safety Management System and delivery its strategies.
You will lead on Safety, Health and Wellbeing projects within Environment, ensuring they are reviewed regularly, and objectives are met.
2. Key accountabilities:
- Accountable for Environment Directorate health and safety performance and assurance, reporting directly to the Executive Director of Environment on compliance, risk and improvement activity.
- Act as the organisation's lead competent person for Environment, Health and Safety matters, providing authoritative advice to senior management and directors.
- Provide strategic oversight of EHS risks associated with operational service delivery and major projects.
- Lead the organisation's response to regulatory inspections, enforcement notices, prosecutions and environmental incidents.
- Hold managers within the directorate accountable for their responsibilities for health and safety duties, providing guidance and practical solutions to ensure legal compliance and best practice in line with Barnet?s management system.
- Authority to escalate significant unmanaged risks directly to the Executive Director of Environment where statutory compliance cannot be demonstrated.
- Maintain and develop accredited management systems, such as ISO 14001, and lead external accreditation audits.
- Act as key subject matter expert for implementation of a health and safety information management system.
- Provide technical health and safety expertise into contract management meetings for externally delivered services within Environment.
- Provide health and safety input into key Environment transformation projects.
- Provide leadership on the health, safety and wellbeing aspects of business and service plans.
- Undertake specific assessments on more complex or specific technical issues, where required, provide mitigation strategies and support.
- Line management of Street Scene Health and Safety Officer.
- Ensure all accidents/incidents/near misses are properly reported internally and externally where necessary, and investigated, in accordance with internal policy and legislation.
- Plan, develop and conduct workplace inspections and internal audits in line with council policy and procedures.
- Develop, deliver, co-ordinate and evaluate health, safety and wellbeing related training.
- Be responsible for delivering allocated projects.
- Make and implement recommendations to ensure compliance, best practice and safe and healthy work activities/ environment, enable corrective action to be implemented.
- Identify gaps in existing health and safety policies, and assist in researching, developing, implementing, communicating, consulting, monitoring and reviewing the new/ revised policies, procedures and safe systems.
- Implement and monitor the risk assessment and incident management system/ process across the organisation.
- To review, analyse, and interpret performance data/trends and produce statistics and reports. Findings to be communicated to Directors and senior managers identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Stay up-to-date with any changes in legislation/ new initiatives/ best practice and provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Act as the strategic lead for contractor health and safety assurance across Highways, Parking, Street Lighting and other commissioned Environment services.
- Perform related duties as assigned, within your scope of practice
- Lead investigations into significant injuries, dangerous occurrences, environmental breaches and regulatory interventions.
Professional Membership/Qualification
Chartered IOSH status.
Essential
ISO 14001 Lead Auditor qualification
Degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Experience of using and implementing project management techniques
Experience of health and safety practice in the waste industry or a related field
Up-to-date knowledge and a thorough understanding of current health and safety legislation and its application within the workplace
Ability to fully consider and provide advice on complex health and safety issues
Knowledge and understanding of key health and safety processes and incorporating sensible risk management
Working knowledge of developing an occupational health and safety management system
Experience of undertaking complex risk assessments
Ability to analyse and understand data and information, and to present the findings, identifying areas of risk, opportunities & solutions
Experience of providing guidance/advice and addressing workplace concerns within an organisation at all levels
Able to work collaboratively and build relationships
Experience of writing reports, policies, procedures and safe systems of work in an engaging style
Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating health and safety training