Health & Safety Practitioner - County Cavan

Health & Safety Practitioner - County Cavan.

The Role & Purpose:

This is an exciting role which involves working across the entire organisation and the day to day running of a busy Manufacturing Plant. The successful applicant will be responsible for administrative, audit and practical support to the Health & Safety Manager. You will work within an environmental management to ISO 45001, 9001, 14001, 17025 and 50001. The role is designed to drive compliance and continuous improvement in health and safety.

Responsibilities include assisting with:
Safety Promotion: Keeping records, sharing results, ensuring safety has a visible and tangible presence in the workplace, e.g. training, promotions, tool box talks, audits. Liaise with consultants and occupational health as required.
Fire Safety Risk: assessment with fire consultant/liaise with fire consultant on equipment and replacement/ recommendation of internal resources and training.
New products/processes: Recommendation and trials of new PPE/ Assessment of MSDS/ Assessment of new work procedures or machinery.
First Aid/Spills: Assess equipment and systems to ensure suitable training/equipment and processes.
Risk Assessments: Risk assessment / Risk review and update in line with legislation or new data. Review procedures/queries/practices and recommend measures and solutions/ Track recommendations arising from risk assessment and risk reviews/ Liaise with consultants and occupational health as required.
Safety Committee: Organise and facilitate safety committee meeting/ Regular communication and consultation with representatives/ Follow up and review issues arising.
Accident Root Cause Investigations/ Corrective and preventative action/ Identify training opportunities.
Systems Auditing/ ISO 45001/ ISO 14001
Legislation: Ensure all personnel understand their responsibilities. Review new legislation and assess compliance and actions arising.

Interested applicants should have:

Level 7/Level 8 Qualification in Occupational Health and Safety or Engineering with additional training/experience in Occupational Health and Safety Management.
Good computer skills using Microsoft Office and ability to learn new systems.

• Organized individual with attention to detail.
• Be at ease working in both factory and office environment
• High level communication and observational skills.
• Collaborative problem solver.
• Reliable.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Proactive.
• Competent communicator and keen relationship builder with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to work on own initiative, independently and as part of a team.
• Capable of handling a varied and busy role.