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Health, Safety & Compliance Manager
Location: On-site
Reports to: Managing Director / Commercial Director
Job Purpose
The Health, Safety & Compliance Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the company's Health & Safety Management System while ensuring compliance with all relevant UK legislation, customer requirements and internationally recognised standards.
The role is responsible for driving a proactive safety culture, reducing business risk, maintaining statutory compliance, supporting operational excellence, and ensuring the organisation continually improves its environmental, sustainability and governance performance.
Key Responsibilities
Health & Safety
- Lead the company's Health & Safety strategy.
- Ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
- Maintain compliance with all relevant HSE legislation.
- Develop, review and implement Health & Safety policies and procedures.
- Produce and review Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work (RAMS).
- Conduct regular workplace inspections and audits.
- Investigate accidents, incidents and near misses.
- Complete root cause investigations.
- Implement corrective and preventative actions.
- Manage accident reporting including RIDDOR where applicable.
- Maintain accident and incident statistics.
- Ensure adequate First Aid and Fire Warden provision.
- Coordinate annual Fire Risk Assessments.
- Organise fire drills and emergency planning.
- Manage COSHH assessments.
- Manage LEV inspections.
- Oversee PPE selection and compliance.
- Ensure machinery is compliant with PUWER.
- Coordinate LOLER inspections where required.
- Ensure statutory inspections remain in date.
- Manage contractor safety.
- Conduct inductions for employees, visitors and contractors.
- Maintain Health & Safety training matrix.
Compliance
Manage and maintain compliance with:
- ISO Management Systems
- FSC® Chain of Custody
- EcoVadis
- CDP Reporting
- Sedex
- SafeContractor
- CHAS
- Modern Slavery Act
- UK GDPR (where operationally required)
- Environmental legislation
- Waste Regulations
- Packaging Regulations
- PPWR requirements
- EUDR requirements (where applicable)
- Customer compliance questionnaires
- Insurance compliance requirement
Audits
Lead all compliance audits including:
- Internal audits
- Customer audits
- External certification audits
- Supplier audits
- Corrective action management
- Continuous improvement programmes
Environmental & Sustainability
- Support carbon reduction initiatives.
- Maintain Carbon Footprint reporting.
- Coordinate sustainability reporting.
- Improve waste reduction initiatives.
- Promote recycling programmes.
- Support Net Zero objectives.
- Assist with ESG reporting.
- Monitor environmental KPIs.
Training
Develop and deliver training including:
- Health & Safety induction
- Fire Safety
- Manual Handling
- COSHH
- DSE
- PPE
- Risk Assessment Awareness
- Working at Height
- Contractor Management
- Toolbox Talks
- Environmental Awareness
Documentation
Maintain company documentation including:
- Policies
- Procedures
- Risk Assessments
- Method Statements
- Emergency Plans
- Inspection records
- Training records
- Audit reports
- Compliance registers
- Legal register
- Contractor documentation
Monitoring & Reporting
Produce monthly reports covering:
- Accident statistics
- Near misses
- Lost Time Incidents
- Audit scores
- Corrective actions
- Training compliance
- Environmental performance
- Compliance status
- Outstanding actions
- Business risks
- Present reports to the Senior Leadership Team.
Supplier & Contractor Compliance
- Assess contractor competence.
- Review RAMS.
- Monitor contractor performance.
- Maintain Approved Contractor List.
- Monitor supplier compliance.
- Support responsible procurement activities.
Continuous Improvement
- Develop a positive safety culture.
- Identify business risks.
- Recommend improvements.
- Benchmark against industry best practice.
- Support Lean Manufacturing initiatives.
- Reduce accidents and compliance risks
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Zero Enforcement Notices
- Zero Prohibition Notices
- Lost Time Incident Frequency Rate
- Near Miss Reporting Rate
- Audit Completion %
- Corrective Action Closure Rate
- Training Compliance %
- Fire Drill Completion
- PPE Compliance
- Risk Assessment Review Completion
- Customer Audit Scores
- Certification Retention
- Insurance Claims Reduction
- Environmental KPI Performance
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- NEBOSH General Certificate (minimum)
- Minimum 5 years' Health & Safety experience
- Manufacturing environment experience
- Strong understanding of UK H&S legislation
- Audit experience
- Risk assessment experience
- Incident investigation experience
- Excellent report writing skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent Microsoft Office user
Desirable
- NEBOSH Diploma
- IOSH Membership
- Chartered IOSH (CMIOSH)
- ISO Internal Auditor qualification
- Environmental Management qualification
- Fire Risk Assessment qualification
- Mental Health First Aid qualification
Skills
- Leadership
- Organisation
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Investigation
- Report writing
- Data analysis
- Influencing skills
- Decision making
- Time management
- Project management
- Attention to detail
Personal Attributes
- Professional
- Approachable
- Highly organised
- Proactive
- Calm under pressure
- Positive attitude
- Ethical
- Commercially aware
- Continuous improvement mindset
Authority
The Health, Safety & Compliance Manager has authority to:
- Stop unsafe work.
- Remove unsafe equipment from service.
- Suspend contractor activities.
- Recommend disciplinary action for serious safety breaches.
- Escalate compliance risks directly to Directors.
- Implement immediate control measures where serious risks are identified.
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