Health and Safety Advisor – Railway Jobs Near Me Newcastle upon Tyne

Overview

Position Title: Health and Safety Advisor

Company: Colas Rail

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• Attend internal and external meetings to discuss Health & Safety, wellbeing
• 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
• Assist in developing, communicating, and implementing OSH strategies & initiatives, with specific focus on Health & Wellbeing.
• Support the management and maintenance of accurate data from monitoring systems and for reporting progress against agreed workplace Health & Safety KPI.
• To conduct risk assessments, including health-related personal, workplace and activity risk assessments as required.

Requirements:

• Competent in assessment techniques such as fatigue, health & capability assessments.
• Experienced in Behavioural based safety, health & wellbeing techniques.
• Competent in development and delivering training and workshops for all levels of staff.
• Highly proficient in use of Office applications: Excel, Word, Visio, and PowerPoint
• Good collaborative and interpersonal working skills, good communication at all levels.
• Sentinel qualification