Health & Safety / Quality Officer

Smethwick, West Midlands
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Health & Safety / Quality Officer

Location: Smethwick

Up to 40K – 35 Hours Monday to Friday (would look at someone part-time)

Pension scheme

Health Care scheme

Exciting opportunity for an experienced Health & Safety / Quality Officer to join a growing team, based in Smethwick.

Health & Safety / Quality Officer Job Purpose:

Ensuring the promotion of health and safety and quality in the workplace and co-ordination of accident prevention and health and safety measures within the Company.

Creating, enacting, and updating health & safety records for the business & training / guidance for employees that ensure compliance with UK health and safety regulations and standards.

Promote health & safety compliance, providing guidance & training to employees on the importance of health and safety.

Report to management on companywide Health & Safety performance, with the aim to maintain & improve company standards for health & safety in the workplace.

Duties:

Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a working knowledge of all Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and any developments that affect the Company to ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation. Participating in continuing education to update knowledge of health and safety requirements and techniques.

Prepare Health and Safety strategies and develop internal policies in conjunction with the management team. Assisting in setting & achieving company health and safety goals, with support from the management team.

Advise the company on a range of Health & Safety areas, e.g., Risk Assessments, Welfare, fire regulations, COSHH, noise, safeguarding machinery, welding, LEV, RPE, Working at Height, LOLER, Electrical Safety, DSE and occupational diseases.

Audit production areas & workplace, carrying out regular workplace inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented, promote safe behaviour & ensuring unsafe acts are prevented. Keep records of inspection findings and produce reports for management that suggest improvements.

Carrying out the role of Fire Marshal, including fire safety inspections, fire drills etc.

Assessing risk and possible safety hazards of all aspects of operations, consider how risks could be reduced. Ensuring hazards & risk are sufficiently detailed within risk assessments, with sufficient controls in place.

Inspecting production equipment and processes to make sure they are safe, ensure equipment is installed & maintained safely. Update processes & documentation where required, and arranging for the ordering of replacement equipment to ensure safety is maintained.

Ensuring Thorough & formal inspections of plant & equipment are planned & carried out (by appropriate external companies) & records maintained (including update of H&S tracker), arranging repairs for unsafe and/or damaged equipment.

Arranging the sourcing, issue, training / fitting, inspection and replacement of PPE & RPE.

Focusing on accident & incident prevention by ensuring equipment maintenance and employee training are planned & implemented. Investigating causes of accidents and other unsafe conditions, providing guidance to prevent future accidents. Reporting RIDDOR accidents appropriately via the HSE.

Providing guidance on fulfilling obligations for First Aid, and providing direct First Aid support & assistance where required (training can be provided if needed by the company for this purpose).

Reviewing and reporting on the staff’s compliance with health and safety legislation and reporting performance or issues to management. Ensuring that required health & safety training for the team is maintained & documents are retained / training matrix updated.

Sharing information, suggestions, and observations with management team to create consistency in safety standards throughout the production team and the entire company.

Creating analytical reports of safety data, for discussion & review with management team.

Assisting with appropriate storage & disposal of hazardous substances & waste material to ensure compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental legislation.

Supporting visits from external persons / bodies regarding health & safety topics.

Health & Safety related tasks & guidance not listed above, but reasonably expected within a manufacturing environment.

Review current standards and policies, maintain control plans, devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues and concerns.

Promote methods and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills and Qualifications:

Training & Qualifications should typically include NEBOSH, IOSH or IIRSM level health & safety qualifications or equivalent, with other supporting training in areas including for example First Aid, Manual Handling, Fire Safety Awareness, DSE etc.

Skills & Awareness include Knowledge of Health & Safety Regulations (e.g., HASAWA, MHSW, RRFO fire regulations, COSHH Regulations, LEV, Noise & vibration, PUWER & safeguarding machinery, welding, PPE & RPE, Working at Height Regs, LOLER, DSE etc), Training, Education, Risk Assessment, Analysis, Auditing, Inspection, Communication, Corporate Responsibility etc.

Proven technical experience of working in manufacturing associates with production processes.

Awareness of quality management systems to the ISO9001:2015 standard.

Ability to connect and operate at all levels of the business. Influence change and drive improvement.

Able to assist during external inspections and visits.

Management of internal audits

Quality management system experience

Experience within the manufacturing sector is advantageous to ensure an embedded understanding of typical hazards & controls (machinery, forklift trucks, lifting equipment, welding processes etc), whilst also having an appreciation for production demands & challenges (work planning, material deliveries & storage, availability of personnel, maintenance) etc.