Health & Safety Practitioner

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Key Information

Job title- Health & Safety Practitioner

Grade- MMH1

Salary- Circa £60,000- £70,000, Depending On Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Location- Predominantly Ruislip Acton and Lillie Bridge, but there would be requirement to support teams in different locations across the network

Contract Type- Permanent- London Underground

Overview of project/ role 

Logistics and Manufacturing (L&M) is TfL’s internal supplier of a range of services, employing around 1,100 people in manufacturing and overhauling a huge range of items from electronics to wheelsets and motors, alongside warehousing, operating an HGV fleet, managing access to our railway tracks overnight, and maintaining, overhauling and operating a fleet of battery powered engineering trains. Ensuring everyone gets home safely after every shift is a core value, and we’re looking for two safety practitioners to help us ensure we succeed. They will be responsible for developing, maintaining and delivering safety improvements in our day to day activity and projects/programmes to improve health and safety performance across our business.

They will collaborate with accountable colleagues across L&M, trade union representatives, and the TfL Safety Health and Environment community to develop a positive health and safety culture in across all areas to ensure compliance with legislative, regulatory and the LU SHE Management System requirements.

Experience of working in an operational and/or manufacturing environment would be a real advantage, and as an inclusive employer we would be open to discuss flexible working from day one. However we do expect these roles to be based predominantly at our depots in Acton, Ruislip and West Kensington, and this does require an element of working nights and weekends.

We are looking for candidates with a broad cross section of the Knowledge, Skills and Experience highlighted in the JD – please set out how you would apply your experience to this role in your cover letter.

Key Accountabilities

• Undertake and maintain a SHE Compliance audit for all areas within L&M
• Undertake the creation and final sign off of safe systems or work; risk assessments (incl workplace risk assessments, CoSHH assessments, Manual Handling assessments and any other risk assessments relevant L&M activities) to ensure continuous compliance with legislation, LU SHE standards and business requirements.
• Providing specialist support to L&M Management team in regards to incident response and highlighted safety issues to uphold the organisational commitment to zero injuries to our staff
• Day to day engagement with operational staff, managers and safety reps to ensure a consistent approach to safety management; to encourage reporting and ownership of health and safety issues at all levels of our business.
• Supporting for developing and delivering risk based L&M-wide Safety improvement projects and programmes to improve SHE performance and culture, ensuring strategic links to TfL’s SHE vision, standards and best practice, translating these into practical steps for the wider L&M department. Collaboration with key stakeholders to define the method and approach to SHE across the department creating an operational learning environment through coaching/training to ensure best practice is maintained throughout and where continuous improvement is driven at all levels
• Continuously review and report on SHE performance using appropriate metrics to ensure provide assurance; identify tactical opportunities and data to support improvements & evidence process confirmation in the short, medium & long term to develop innovative ways to ensure SHE practices bring value add to the business, whilst also advocating L&M colleagues to continue identifying safety improvements to assist in building a positive safety culture
• Positively represent L&M with external stakeholders by providing day to day tactical and L&M-wide input with regulators  and collaborate with SHE professionals across TfL and key stakeholders to deliver TfL's SHE vision. 
• Competently advising on use of SHE management systems & providing SHE training to ensure company requirements are met, operating within relevant safety requirements, ensuring that all are carried out to regulatory & LU standards
• Responsible for working collaboratively with operational colleagues and Trade Unions to build ownership and a positive safety culture, compliance and accountability, whilst also developing strong relationships across the business  and using coaching and mentoring to establish a culture of excellence in SHE management for L&M

  Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Essential  Knowledge of the relevant SHE legislation, standards and procedures
• Essential: Relevant SHE qualification, e.g. NEBOSH certificate minimum (Level 6 qualification is preferred)
• Essential Skills : Very strong interpersonal skills and excellent written and verbal communication
• Essential Skills: Must be highly delivery focussed, flexible and collaborative with colleagues at all levels
• Essential Experience Practical application of relevant health and safety legislation and standards in an operational environment
• Desirable Experience; working in a unionised environment and collaborating with Safety reps on a routine basis
• Essential Skills ; must hold or be willing to hold Depot Area A and basic track awareness

Desirable: 

• Strong knowledge of rail, road transport, warehousing or manufacturing environment, asset registers and systems
• Good knowledge of manufacturing and/or transport operations 
• Strong knowledge of SHE techniques (for example incident investigation, risk assessment and assurance)
• Good knowledge of TfL SHE management system, policies procedures and systems such as CYPOL, IE2 and Maximo

The closing date for applications is Friday 7th November @11:59pm We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. 
 
Benefits  
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 
Final salary pension scheme 
Free travel for you on the TfL network 
Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
29 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) 
Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
Discounted Eurostar travel