Health And Safety Advisor

Position: Health, Safety Advisor

Division: Rail Services

Location: Rugby Depot

Reporting to: Rail Grinding Operations Manager

Purpose of the Role

The role of the Health & Safety Advisor is to provide professional OHS assistance with a focus on workforce health & wellbeing. The post-holder will be required to be accredited in HSQE and NEBOSH qualifications. Hold Network Rail sentinel qualification (Person Track Safety) to be able to carry out staff engagements on Health & Safety on the Network Rail infrastructure to ensure Rail Grinding complies fully with Colas Rail safety Management procedures, and any contract specific client requirements. The role will support operational managers to manage any health & safety related non-compliances, and raise the overall profile of Health & Safety, wellbeing, and fatigue management beyond compliance. The role is primarily based at Rugby with some travel requirement for site visits, including working night shift with operational teams.

Key Areas of Responsibility & Accountability

1. Oversee OSH activities on behalf of the Rail Grinding Operations Manager to ensure compliance with all OHS Legislation requirements.
2. Raise the profile of safety throughout the business & support accident/incident prevention initiatives.
3. Engage with all Rail Grinding employees & Contractors to promote health, wellbeing and fatigue awareness and an overall positive OHS culture.
4. Monitor OHS performance and effectiveness for projects, ensure audit plans / targets are achieved. Undertake OHS inspections when required and co-ordinate thorough investigations into incidents and accidents.
5. Promote awareness and learning through bulletins, training, and workshops to improve staff engagement and the quality of Health & Safety management.
6. Attend internal and external meetings to discuss Health & Safety, wellbeing.
7. Ensure that all accident, incidents, and significant close-calls and near misses are reported, investigated and that all lessons learnt from investigations, surveillance and data analysis are disseminated, understood, and embedded within the rail grinding operations.
8. Assist in developing, communicating, and implementing OSH strategies & initiatives, with specific focus on Health & Wellbeing.
9. Support the management and maintenance of accurate data from monitoring systems and for reporting progress against agreed workplace Health & Safety KPI.
10. Conduct risk assessments, including health-related personal, workplace and activity risk assessments as required.
11. Contribute to the development of systems and procedures, and assurance activities as part of a whole team approach in meeting performance targets.
12. Any other reasonable duties as required from time to time, and work closely with the HSEQ team.
13. Responsible for management of the HAVS system to ensure full compliance and effective reduction of HAVS.
14. Responsible for the briefing tracker for all operational notices and health & safety updates.
15. Responsible for the Designated Person tracker.
16. Responsible for updating the heatmap.
17. Ensure that close calls and safety conversations are raised by operational staff, reminding appropriate managers to investigate and close out open close calls.
18. Arrange dust monitoring for both maintenance and operational activities of the Rail Grinders.

Person Specification

Essential

1. NEBOSH General Certificate.
2. Experienced in OHS management including understanding of legislation, issues, policies, procedures and practicalities within the infrastructure or construction industry.
3. Competent in assessment techniques such as fatigue, health & capability assessments.
4. Experienced in Behavioural based safety, health & wellbeing techniques.
5. Competent in development and delivering training and workshops for all levels of staff.
6. Highly proficient in use of Office applications: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
7. Good collaborative and interpersonal working skills, good communication at all levels.
8. Sentinel qualification.

Desirable

1. Experience of the industry, in particular Light Rail, Railway, or multi-disciplinary delivery.
2. Strong experience of working in a customer led environment.

And what do we offer?

At Colas Rail we know how important job satisfaction is for everyone to support with life at home, your health and financial well-being. We are the Winners of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy of the year for 2022/2023. In return, we offer:

1. Competitive Salary.
2. 26 days Annual Leave.
3. Industry leading Life Assurance.
4. Healthcare Cash Plan.
5. Wellbeing Employee Assistant Programme.
6. Pension Scheme.
7. Eye Care Vouchers.
8. Long Service Award.
9. Season Ticket Loan.
10. Occupational Health Service.