Health and Safety Officer, Stoke to £30,000

Health and Safety Officer, Stoke to £30,000

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Health and Safety Officer to join one of the world leading leisure brands. Due to growing they are requiring a Health and Safety Officer to be responsible for ensuring the physical safety of the staff and clients of the practice. This role requires attention to detail and common sense combined with a legalistic approach to potential hazards.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage version control and documentation within Health and Safety section of SharePoint, ensuring compliance to Quality Standards.

• Review of risk assessments and ensure they are current.

• Provide a professional, responsive and customer focused service to colleagues across the organisation, as well as external suppliers/customers for health and safety operations.

• Administration of first aid provisions and first aiders

• Prepare monthly health and safety performance and activity reports to an agreed format.

• Accident and Incident reporting.

• Arrange and participate in Health & Safety meetings across the business to ensure effective communication.

• Maintain the training records for health and safety and the creation and distribution of certificates as required.

• Complete administrative duties in relation to the management of DSE activities, driving activities and remedial actions.

• Monitor health and safety inspections and audits to ensure completion in accordance with procedure.

• Updating and control of COSHH assessments

• Carry out monthly & weekly checks of emergency lighting, fire alarm safety tests, racking, ladders, etc.

• New Starter Health & Safety inductions.

• Produce and distribute machine and HAV check sheets.

• Supervise any external maintenance visits and organise supplier quotations and approval status.

• Continuously improve the current Health and Safety process and procedures to eradicate and reduce the current risks.

• Provide an administration support function to the production department.

• Any other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Strong administrative background

• IOSH qualified or working towards a qualification.

• Knowledge and/or experience in a Health & Safety environment - DSEAR

• Some auditing experience would be advantageous.

• Numerate/literate with excellent PC skills in packages - Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook

• Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal

• Experience of online intranet systems/document control e.g. SharePoint

• Planning, Prioritising, and problem-solving skills

• Self-motivated

• Ability to work under pressure and on a variety of tasks simultaneously.

• Excellent attention to detail

• Flexible, Approachable and a team player