Your new company

Hays is working with an international, employee-owned insurance group that provides insurance broking, reinsurance, and risk management services.
The company operates globally, serving a wide range of clients from individuals to large corporations, and has a business model centred around employee ownership, which is reflected in its culture and growth.

Your new role

• Assist with the roll-out of the Health and Safety Strategy
• Delivering training and toolbox talks internally to staff on manual handling, ladder safety and fire marshal training any other training requirements as needed
• Assist with the investigation of accidents and incidents and liaison with the Business Continuity Manager around emergency preparedness
• Assist with the creation of risk assessments for activities and events and maintain the risk assessment library
• Support the catering teams with food safety advice and inspections (approx. 2 days work per month).
• Carrying out internal audits of premises in the UK and Ireland (approx. 1 audit a month) and follow-up visits where necessary, driving forward actions from the fire risk assessments and H&S inspections carried out by our consultant and the office safety inspections from site Health and Safety Coordinators
• Liaising with all Health and Safety Coordinators, Corporate Real Estate Services, landlords of sites and other Operations staff with regards to safety improvements and training performance improvement
• Give workstation assessment and expectant mother risk assessment advice where required and assist with the administration of the hybrid worker online DSE queries escalated from the administrators.
• Assisting with the development and review of the Health and Safety Policy and all Arrangements
• Running the Health and Safety Committee and following up actions from it
• Maintain a record of all safety management documentation to ensure it remains up to date.

What you'll need to succeed

• NEBOSH General or equivalent health and safety qualification
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with demonstrable presentation skills
• Excellent MS Office IT skills, including use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively and make decisions based on competent knowledge.
• A comprehensive knowledge of current health and safety legislation and relevant standards, food safety requirements, accident investigation, audits, inspections and creation of risk assessments.
• Proven track record of providing professional, technical and practical health and safety advice and training to a group.

What you'll get in return

In return, you will receive a wide range of company benefits as well as a generous hybrid working scheme of 1 day in the office.

What you need to do now

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