European EHS Advisor
Location: Finland
Salary: 45,000 – 60,000 doe plus package
The role of the European Health and Safety Advisor is to work with all site and management personnel to ensure all company policies, processes and health and safety legislation is adhered to on all sites.
Key Functions & Results Areas (Key Activities):
- Develop and conduct audits, toolbox talks and other training activities
- Develop, maintain and ensure implementation of an internal Safety Management System
- Ensure the company safety accreditations are maintained and continually improved
- Responsible for H&S training – First Aid, Manual Handling and other as appropriate
- Monitor legislative updates, ensuring necessary changes are applied promptly.
- Ensure site activities are carried out in compliance with current legislation and company health and policy and it's support documents
- Present health and safety progress updates to Line Managers on a weekly basis
- Regularly review and update Risk Assessments, Safer Operating Procedures, and
- Safety Statements, communicating any updates to sites.
- Investigate, record, and report accidents, incidents and near –misses promptly, ensuring full implementation of the company’s accident reporting procedure, including assistance with completing accident and near miss forms. This will require the ability to liaise with external bodies, such as the HSE, Auditors or clients.
- Identify new and on-going safety related training requirements, ensuring all
- mandatory training is reviewed and delivered on time
- Challenge the attitude and behaviour of site operatives, foremen, managers and sub- contractors by communicating and collaborating with them in the most engaging, though provoking and innovative manner
- Attend regular Health and Safety Meetings.
- Provide advice, information and support to personnel and operations department
- Liaising with the company insurer relating to information required in defence of claims and ensuring the required documentation if disclosed within the required timescales
- To monitor and review site performance through regular site inspections and audits. This includes Safety and Quality Audits, creating site specific risk assessments, method statements, and COSHH assessments, audits of plant and too certification, audits of harness and lanyard certification, as well as conducting noise assessments when necessary.
- To be able to deliver detailed training sessions to site staff members on Health & Safety aspects that are vital to the company, such as Permit to Work training and Health & Safety Inductions for new starters. and maintain documentary evidence of same.
- To assist with site teams when required in general supervisory and admin duties (including but not limited to – plant registers, certification records, lifting equipment registers, update lifting plans, toolbox talks, reports, liaison with client and main contractor)
- Maintain and track company safety performance and keep accurate record of the accident frequency rate and near misses
- Assist in the safety element of tender prequalification’s and applications.
Person Specification:
- Level 7 Degree in Health and Safety
- Minimum 2 Years’ experience in a Similar Role.
- Must be comfortable in carry out training, Risk Assessments, Methods Statements
- and Safety and Health Plans and other Health and Safety Reports.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with emphasis on ability to
- provide and explain reports accurately.
- Excellent IT Skills.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills and ability to manage multiple
- priorities.
- Excellent administration skills.
- Must have an innovative and engaging approach to health and safety
- Up to date with Legislation, Guidance, Advice and Compliance.
- Current driver’s licence
If this is something of interest you would be interested in, please send your CV in confidence to [email protected]