Health and Safety Co-Ordinator

Berry Recruitment are currently hiring for a Health and Safety Co-Ordinator for our client in Crediton, Devon.

About the Role:

Our client exists to deliver the best tasting healthcare products to consumers and to be the vitamin and medicated confectionary supplier of choice.

The production teams at our client cover two primary areas, manufacturing and packing which are each, in turn split into smaller departments: Sugar Boiling, Makat, Victory V, Blister lines, Bottling line and Bag in Box.

The post's primary function will be to review and update all task-based risk assessments, manual handling risk assessments and LOTO (lock out, tag out) maps, help deliver HSE projects and instructions for each production area along with updating BOS sheet, near miss data, safety concern cards and ensure trending is escalated to relevant departments. Ensuring procedure are in place and implemented, hazards assessments are conducted, accidents caused by unsafe acts and conditions are reduced and energy and waste are driven down.

You will also be point of contact for access request for system like CCTV and swipe access information along with keeping the legal register up to date.

The role will be based primarily within the factory GMP area with a large portion of time expected to be spent at the manufacturing/packing lines engaging with multiple operators and assessing hazards directly. The H&S Co-Ordinator will be a key contributor to the delivery of the production team's health and safety agenda ensuring it remains a priority within our client's production areas and a safe working environment is maintained.

This role reports to a Health & Safety Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

Factory based role directly involved in supporting the Health And Safety agenda. Includes generation, reviewing and maintaining up to date Health and Safety risk management documentation for manufacturing and packing areas.

• Review, organise, update and maintain Safety Maps and Safety Stations for all production and packing areas and ensure staff in all areas are aware and trained on each map/station to ensure compliance
• Behavioural, near miss, safety concern, accident and incident tracking and trending
• Review, organise, update and maintain task-based risk assessments for all production activities and follow ups implemented to minimise or eliminate accidents, asset losses that might cause harm to one of the company's employees, contractors, visitors and the Environment. Review, organise, update and maintain manual handling risk assessments for all production areas
• Review, organise, update and maintain Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) map for all production areas and ensure staff in all areas are aware and trained on each map to ensure compliance
• Provides Health & Safety input for the plant for all new projects and change management activities. (i.e. change control, CDM)
• Participates in investigations to facilitate closure of identified non-conformances.
• Engage with Operators and Line Managers within each production area and develop good working relationships to effectively gather the necessary detail to create high quality risk management documentation as listed above.
• Liaise closely with the EHS Manager to ensure risk management documentation created by this role is aligned with client/regulatory requirements
• Comply with all appropriate client defined Quality systems, processes and procedures
• Follows up on non-conformances and develops the systems to resolve them based on RCA.
• Ensures the facility standards follow both Company and governmental/community reg's.
• Ensures re-training and coaching are taking place to drive a safety-perfect culture and to ensure Health & Safety standards and awareness are well understood throughout the plant organisation.
• Know the ethical and legal compliance responsibilities of the position; lead ethically and model compliant behaviour; maintain an environment where employees can speak up without fear of retaliation; ensure employees in area of responsibility understand the compliance responsibilities of their jobs and actively participate in the compliance program.

All duties must be carried in line with all the relevant Health, Safety and Environmental regulations, SOP's, Company Policies and guidelines relating to your employment, duties and associated tasks. These must be followed always with any & all deviations from process escalated appropriately. Any other duties considered to be reasonable by your Line Manager.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

• NEBOSH certificate or equivalent qualification in safety and environmental
• Qualification in applicable local Health & Safety legal compliance.
• Technical functional excellence in Health & Safety and demonstrated thought leadership.
• Project management skills, particularly utilising outside engineering resources.
• Demonstrated ability to build functional and business teams and create motivational environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop passion, understanding and capability for functional agenda in key reports and others in business
• Appropriate auditing experience of Health & Safety systems.
• Previous experience of creating and delivering training

Benefits:

• 28 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
• Perks to choose from, including purchasing additional holidays, dental cover
• Free perks including 24/7 mental health and GP hotline
• Paid volunteering day
• Yearly salary reviews
• Lots of opportunities for development

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.