Health & Safety Officer Co. Kilkenny
Responsibilities
- Committed to embedding a best practice safety culture that is aligned to the organisational needs
- Anticipate, recognise, evaluate and control workplace hazards with all key stakeholders
- Ensure organisational safety culture has the capacity to make things go right
- Relentless in addressing safety hazards in an efficient and effective manner
- Build close working relationships with all key stakeholders by ensuring a just safety culture
- Resolute in promoting ‘Zero Harm’ as an espoused organisational safety value
- Champion an interdependent organisational safety culture
- Enable achievement of annual Key Performance Indicators on safety
- Deliver targeted safety induction onboarding for all new employees
- Proactively engage, challenge and influence colleagues to drive continuous safety improvement
- Promote safety competency at all levels by targeted learning interventions
- Ensure emergency preparedness and response continuously meets the needs of the organisation
- Build highest standard of safety practices for contractors and visitors on site
- Facilitate timely accident and incident investigations with key stakeholders and ensure lessons learned are acted upon
- Conduct audits/inspections as per ISO 45001 certification and ensure ongoing compliance
- Deputise for Safety Manager as required
- Support site Health and Safety committees
Requirements
- Degree in Safety or Professional Diploma in Safety desired and or a desire to obtain the required qualifications
- Chartered Member of IOSH or working towards Chartered Status
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience of having direct or indirect responsibility for health and safety within a manufacturing environment
- Practical experience with ISO 45001 standard
- Competency to design and deliver safety training at all levels within an organisation
- Theoretical and practical experience of supporting safe behaviour programmes
- Motivated to work in a high performing organisation
To apply please send CV to [email protected]