Health and Safety Manager

Purpose:

• Promote and implement the requirements of the EPC United Kingdom Limited Health & Safety, COMAH Major Accident Prevention and Process Safety Policies.
• Provide a practical 'hands on' approach to resolving health and safety challenges and issues arising from work activities on site.
• Be the EPC-UK focal point and subject matter expert for personal safety risk management.
• Provide expert HSE input into the SHE management systems and risk assessment process.
• Promote Company and personal values to develop and maintain a strong organisational safety culture.
• Positively influence others to embrace the organisational safety culture.

Principal Accountabilities:

The Health and Safety Manager will:

Assist:

• Management of the COMAH Safety Report as directed by the Head of SHEQ Northern Europe.
• Development, testing and exercising of the EPC-UK emergency response plan.
• Management and successful completion of environmental management system requirements such as EPR reporting, waste management and assigned objectives and targets.
• Review and revision of the EPC-UK SHE management system as required.
• Completion of the monthly HSE report.
• Promotion of a strong organisational safety culture where people are not afraid to speak up.

Manage:

• Organising, facilitating, and completing risk evaluation as required.
• Development and delivery of toolbox talks to the workforce.
• Creation and maintenance of policies and procedures on key risk control systems, e.g. permit to work, incident investigation, confined space etc.
• Safe outcomes, solutions, and improvements to work practices.
• Support the Head of SHE&Q Northern Europe to ensure EPC-UK engages, communicates, and co-operates with the workforce on matters relating to health, safety, and the environment.
• Corrective and preventive actions arising from incident investigations, audits etc., as required.
• Business Observation Safety System (BOSS).
• Advise the EPC-UK team on health, personal and process safety, and environmental matters. Advice to be accurate and response timely to build credibility.

Ensure:

• EPC-UK complies with all relevant legislative requirements including National, European, company standards, codes of practice, regulations, good practice, and company values as a minimum.
• Employees and contractors are aware of their statutory responsibilities and understand the requirements of the EPC-UK HSSE and MAPP.
• Continual improvement through 'sharing and learning' from events.
• Incidents, near misses, unsafe behaviours, and other non-conformances in accordance with EPC-UK Procedures.

Monitor:

• Preparation and timely submission of key performance indicators as required.
• Maintain the HSE legal registers, in conjunction with the Head of SHEQ Northern Europe, updating them as required and informing EPC-UK team of new/changes to legal requirements.
• Compliance with regulatory requirements and company procedures through regular walkabouts and inspections to ensure that HSE controls are effective.

Audit:

• Lead on or assist with the successful completion of internal and external audits.
• Review third party risk assessed method statements as required.
• Vendor submissions going through the EPC-UK approval process as required.
• Other reviews as required by the Head of SHEQ.

Qualifications/education required:

• Educated to a degree level in Health and Safety / Nebosh Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience of working in a hazardous industry at a similar level
• Experience of working on a COMAH upper tier site
• Knowledge of UK Health and Safety Regulations and their application to EPC United Kingdom Limited
• Knowledge of UK and international codes of practice in the industry sector.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental requirements associated with an upper tier COMAH installation.
• Competent in Risk Assessment and other risk identification and risk management techniques. Competent in Permit to Work
• Competent in accident investigation and Root Cause Analysis techniques.
• Knowledgeable in Process Safety and Asset Integrity.
• Trained and Competent in Audits and Inspections.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Excellent organisational skills