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Hays is working with an international, employee-owned insurance group that provides insurance broking, reinsurance, and risk management services.The company operates globally, serving a wide range of clients from individuals to large corporations, and has a business model centred around employee ownership, which is reflected in its culture and growth.
Your new role
- Assist with the roll-out of the Health and Safety Strategy
- Delivering training and toolbox talks internally to staff on manual handling, ladder safety and fire marshal training any other training requirements as needed
- Assist with the investigation of accidents and incidents and liaison with the Business Continuity Manager around emergency preparedness
- Assist with the creation of risk assessments for activities and events and maintain the risk assessment library
- Support the catering teams with food safety advice and inspections (approx. 2 days work per month).
- Carrying out internal audits of premises in the UK and Ireland (approx. 1 audit a month) and follow-up visits where necessary, driving forward actions from the fire risk assessments and H&S inspections carried out by our consultant and the office safety inspections from site Health and Safety Coordinators
- Liaising with all Health and Safety Coordinators, Corporate Real Estate Services, landlords of sites and other Operations staff with regards to safety improvements and training performance improvement
- Give workstation assessment and expectant mother risk assessment advice where required and assist with the administration of the hybrid worker online DSE queries escalated from the administrators.
- Assisting with the development and review of the Health and Safety Policy and all Arrangements
- Running the Health and Safety Committee and following up actions from it
- Maintain a record of all safety management documentation to ensure it remains up to date.
What you'll need to succeed
- NEBOSH General or equivalent health and safety qualification
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with demonstrable presentation skills
- Excellent MS Office IT skills, including use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively and make decisions based on competent knowledge.
- A comprehensive knowledge of current health and safety legislation and relevant standards, food safety requirements, accident investigation, audits, inspections and creation of risk assessments.
- Proven track record of providing professional, technical and practical health and safety advice and training to a group.
What you'll get in return
In return, you will receive a wide range of company benefits as well as a generous hybrid working scheme of 1 day in the office.
What you need to do now
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