Safety Risk Manager

As Safety Risk Manager, you will manage a pool of Risk Specialists who will deliver a Safety Service focusing on the day-to-day delivery of safety activities - incidents, accidents, audits, risk assessments and control measures in response to planned and emerging safety challenges. You will have a focus on either occupational or operational safety, in line with the Chief Operating Officer (COO) or Chief Customer Officer (CFO) business model and deploy specialists with appropriate expertise to each area.

You will be responsible for translating the requirements from the annual safety plans into clear deliverables with actions and timelines with the resources contained within the Risk Specialists pool. You will be performing a people management role and setting performance tasks/goals, building capability ensuring that activities are delivered as well as being a key interface in the wider Safety team and working closely with the Safety Business Partner to update on plan, progress against plans/projects.

You will partner with the senior management teams of the Directorates, ensuring that there is an appropriate and robust Safety plan that reflects both the risk register and specific needs, and that this plan is monitored, amended, and delivered by the Safety & Health Specialist functions. You will have a focus on either Trains (in line with COO structure) or Customer (in line with CCO structure) but will identify and collaborate over shared risks as required.

You will also provide insight focused Safety and Health advice and reflect business needs, challenges, and priorities back into the wider Safety & Health function. You will provide your area of the business with a single point of contact.

Key deliverables

• Daily review of all output from incident / accident reporting (including Zero Harm reports, Daily Control Logs, BTP / External Stakeholder Daily Reports etc.) and allocating commensurate resource to investigate or assign investigations
• Development of lead specialisms within the team (Driver competencies, Dispatch competencies, Occupational Competencies including: COSHH, Fire, Fatigue, First Aid, Construction Design Management etc)
• Ensuring all Risk Specialists have adequateTNAs and Personal Development Plans that allow risk specialists to be developed in order for the Safety directorate to better respond to needs of the business
  • Design, develop, and resource Safety responses consistent with Directorates requirements / incidents
  • Ensure that the Zero Harm app is the key tool for performance reporting and is promoted and applied across the business
  • Lead the identification of recommendations from investigations to avoid recurrence where practicable or minimise future hazards and risks
  • Engage with internal staff and external stakeholders, to ensure risks are mitigated to ALARP and Directorates fully understand their responsibilities to ensure legal compliance and drive a positive health, safety, and well being culture
  • To raise emerging risks and ensure that any emerging risks are inputted into the overall management of the risk register via the Leadership team
  • Deliver regular updates via key meetings attendance to the stakeholders in each area on the delivery against the requirements of incidents, accidents, issues, and recommendations
  • Close working with the Safety Business Partners (CCO & COO) to ensure recourse is allocated to support the delivery of the Directorates safety plan

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