The Site Safety & Health Specialist will support the site project management team to deliver project specific Safety & Health management, leadership, and advice at the field location. This position will create and implement safety policies, procedures, processes and plans to ensure a safe, healthy, and incident-free work site in a heavy construction, high compliance environment.
To support all site operations with health, safety, and compliance to ensure that the planned work is delivered safely and on time, and to standard.
Provide support and guidance to members of the site management and delivery team on your allocated projects and support the UK Health & Safety Manager with the implementation and development of all policies, procedures, processes, and plans.
Complete all necessary internal reporting to a high standard and lead by example when interfacing with external parties such as clients, project stakeholders, consultants, subcontractors, enforcement agencies, local planning authorities & statutory bodies. Ideally the individual should have experience of working in live substations or on new substation builds.
Job Duties
• Understand client's Health, Safety and Environmental (SHE) Policies and Processes and statutory requirements and ensure the requirements are implemented at a project and site level.
• Communicate, reinforce, and champion the client's ‘Safety First’ approach.
• Support project teams in the development of project Health & Safety construction plans and arrangements, and review to drive continual improvement.
• Monitor project risk registers to ensure design and construction risks are captured, managed, and mitigated.
• Provide project and site management with advice on the prevention of incidents.
• Lead on data collation for SHE KPI’s including any client specific measures and put in place plans to meet objectives and targets.
• Support safety by design concepts, working with construction and engineering design teams.
• Work with the H&S Manager to develop, manage, implement, and monitor conformance with the Safety, Health, and Environmental Management System.
• Establish, manage, and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including customers, clients, local authorities, enforcement agencies, impacted communities and other interested parties.
• Undertake site visits, inspections, and audits to help assure compliance to CDM and other HS&E legislation.
• Coordinate with the operational team to ensure actions are delivered. Track actions resulting from audits and inspections through to completion.
• Review and provide guidance on the preparation of safe systems of work, Risk, Assessments and Method Statements
• Undertake and/or assist with the monitoring, analysis and reporting of SHE performance. Utilise data to highlight areas for further consideration, evaluation, and intervention.
• Assist and/or manage the investigation of accidents, incidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses and other incidents.
• Prepare and deliver health & safety training/briefings.
• Promote and capture good practice and harness innovation.
• Set standards and lead by example.
• Maintain own professional development, knowledge, and competency in relation to Health, Safety and Environmental Management and responsibilities.
• Deputise for the Environmental Advisor when they are not on site.
• Assist with the onboarding of project and site personnel making sure they receive inductions and check that they have suitable competencies and provisions for their activities.
• Other duties as assigned