Overview
The Health and Safety department primary function is to ensure there is a safe and healthy working environment for all employees, customers and visitors. This involves identifying potential hazards, implementing control measures to mitigate risks, providing training, and ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety legislation. The team also plays a crucial role in investigating accidents, promoting a positive safety culture, and developing and maintaining health and safety policies and procedures.
This is achieved by working closes with key stake holders throughout the business, including heads of departments, the people team and facilities, development and new stores teams.
Training educating and supporting our colleagues at Dunelm is key to promoting a positive safety culture within our business.
The primary objective of the Health & Safety department is to ensure a positive Health and Safety culture through the organisation fostering a safe working environment for all employees, customers and visitors. The department also ensures organisational compliance with current UK statutory regulation and liaison with regulatory authorities.
This is achieved through working closely with stakeholders at all levels across all functions of the organisation. The department helps to deliver training, perform audits, write and review documentation, host regular safety meetings, report statistics, investigate incidents and manage aspects of H&S through a Health and Safety Management System (HSG65).
The department is high functioning supporting all areas of the organisation including peer to peer support within. The department will also help nurture personal development within the institute of occupational safety and health and you will be encouraged to complete relevant Health and Safety qualifications to support the department.