Health Safety and Environment Adviser

Role Context including; Project, Likely Timeframe of project, Work Environment and Location

• ‘Rethinking Safety through Inclusion + Wellbeing’ (I+W) is our holistic approach to physical and psychological health and safety – addressing the unique risk factors in construction. It also promotes a culture where everyone feels included, no matter what role they play. Everyone has a voice and should feel empowered to share it.
• We place our people at the heart of health and safety decision making, with a focus on understanding successful health and safety performance and the many things which go right. I+W challenges us to move beyond traditional health and safety practices and measures. I+W requires all H&S professionals to focus away from traditional practices and towards being challenging and curious and being actively involved in hosting, coaching, mentoring and engagement

Role Purpose

• To act as an adviser, facilitator and champion for Health and Safety delivery within their project/business/facility.
• To provide local advice and support necessary to assist managers and staff to fulfil their safety responsibilities to the high standards demanded by the Business.
• To facilitate and coach operational teams on I+W and the respective engagement tools, which allow the team to engage effectively with the workforce.
• To carry out relevant H&S assurance activities, providing confidence to the business that operational effectiveness of all relevant processes is being delivered.

Key Deliverables and Accountabilities

• Champion the Inclusion + Wellbeing Programme, including the three pillars.
• Support delivery of I+W across the project/business/facility and measure H&S performance against strategic deliverables.
• Challenge bureaucratic, non value adding process and paperwork and motivate teams to focus towards their ethical responsibility.
• Facilitate Fatal and Severe Risk Assessments at frequencies as established by the facility/ project, providing risk assurance.
• Facilitate collective insights/ collaborative conversations to identify, through conversation, what works and why it works and what is not working and why it is not working.
• Facilitate positive investigations/ appreciative enquiries and engage with the workforce to understand how success is created within the business and what our people need and rely upon to replicate that success.
• Facilitate reviews of work planned vs work as done, and engage with the workforce to discover what normal work is (imagined, planned, completed and disclosed).
• Regularly gather discovery feedback from the workforce and communicate it to management to allow effective I+W leadership.
• Support and influence the management team to develop the soft skills required to deliver I+W successfully, i.e. listening, openness, honesty, collaboration, willingness to learn and suspended judgement/ understanding.
• Innovate, research and promote the adoption of cutting edge, market leading products, technologies, methods and services to support the delivery of I+W.
• Support and coordinate the investigation of incidents including high potential incidents to ensure effective learning outcomes and timely closure of required actions.
• Support production of project/ establishment I+W strategy in line with the relevant Business H&S Strategy.
• Regularly promote, capture and share examples I+W in action across the business via internal media and external social networking.
• Actively facilitate and drive positive learning opportunities in the facility/ project and effectively cascade business and industry communications.
• Act as a point of contact and support for facilities/ projects when communicating with enforcement bodies. Ensure any necessary notifications to or correspondence with enforcement bodies is produced and provided in a professional and timely manner.
• Support the facility/ project in setting I+W maturity goals, inspire progress and report performance as required.
• Ensure implementation of the Health & Safety Management System including compliance with all relevant statutory provisions.
• Monitor the close out of actions raised during all assurance and inspection activities as well as those associated with incident investigations and monitor that H&S reviews and assurance checks are being completed as planned.
• Support the process by which any necessary training and coaching is identified and facilitate the delivery of any necessary training and coaching.

Technical

• Qualification at level 3 (min)
• Technical knowledge in Occupational Health risk management and wellbeing
• Technical knowledge in Environmental risk management
• Technical knowledge in Safety risk management
• Coaching / Training competence
• Assurance / Audit / Investigation competence
• Member of relevant professional body

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels and to influence various stakeholders at all levels.
• Skilled in engagement and listening in order to encourage open communications.
• Strong communication skills to confidently give constructive feedback when dealing with challenging operational situations in a professional manner
• Consults widely and involves all necessary parties in problem solving and decision making.
• Ability to review and analyse information quickly, be decisive and come to conclusions quickly
• Well developed capacity to deal sensitively with people understanding their motivation, beliefs and behaviours
• Ability to get on with people and to gain the trust and respect of operational teams and peers
• Trusts people and colleagues they work with and treats them as reliable and honest
• Embraces change and sees new ways of working as an opportunity to improve. Is creative and innovative; seeks new options and ideas
• Positive minded, looks for the positive in all situations and sees change as an improvement opportunity
• Belief and enthusiasm in doing the right thing and creating a good honest and trustworthy personal brand
• Ability to apply emotional intelligence and empathy to situations and not jump to conclusions
• Can keep emotions in check and keeps a level head in pressure situations and when faced with set backs
• Ability to plan in advance for success delivering work in a structured manner and ensuring deliverables are met in a timely manner
• Ambitious, keen to develop and likes to work to demanding goals and targets
• Is a self starter, injects energy into a project team / room and motivates and inspires teams to deliver

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