Health & Safety Advisor

OCS Recruitment Ltd

About the Client: A leading and renowned RC Frame/Groundworks subcontractor. They have a current turnover of close to £50m and work on projects to the value of £15m.

About the Role: As a Health and Safety Advisor, you will be providing guidance, support and advice to site teams, to ensure the monitoring and compliance and Health and Safety legalisations and to promote a positive safety culture. You will be responsible to drive the standards and Safemode.

* Undertake planned & unplanned inspections and audits on site.

* Produce formal reports on findings and communicate these to the project and senior management.

* Ensure items raised in the auditing process are closed out collaboratively with the site team and management.

* Promote positive safety culture and injury/illness awareness. Provide site with H&S advice and guidance.

* Complete accident / near miss reports following occurrences onsite.

* Ensure items raised as a result of the above are closed to prevent similar occurrences, including the development of education/awareness strategies and review of processes.

* Work collaboratively as a member of the health and safety department.

* General administration tasks related to the HSMS.

About the Requirements;

* You will hold a Health and Safety qualification and preferably have 2+ years experience within the construction industry.

* Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop positive working relationships.

* Be computer savvy with the ability to work onsite.

* Have strong communication skills both written and verbal; you must be able to communicate with all levels of staff.

* Be forward-thinking and across industry changes, standards and initiatives to bring to the table to continually improve systems of work and the impact of safety on site.

* Be willing to ‘chip in’ where required and assist other members of the team.

* Confident with Risk Assessments and Method Statements.

* Competent in incident & accident investigation reporting.

About the Benefits: You will be working for a leading subcontractor with a strong safety culture. You will receive excellent training and development opportunities as well as being rewarded with an excellent salary and package