Health and Safety Assistant

£35,000

Yate

Days - Monday - Friday

Yolk is thrilled to support this recruitment campaign for a Health and Safety Assistant. This is your chance to join a company that values a good working culture and the up skilling of their employees. If you are looking to join a company that offers personal growth and professional development this is the role for you!

This is what you'll be doing:

• Assist the review and development of various risk assessments, including PUWER, work at height, manual handling and COSHH assessments.
• Maintain the First Aid register, ensuring First Aid equipment is adequately stocked.
• Conduct HSE inductions for new starters, include company policies and procedures.
• Assist with development of, and maintain health, safety and environmental documentation to identify and respond to emerging legislation relevant to site activities.
• Implement processes and systems to improve the health, safety and environmental culture.
• Assist with all health, safety and environmental issues, ensuring that all company procedures are adhered to and communicated to relevant personnel.
• Assist with HSE accident or incident investigation and review processes, ensuring that actions are completed within timescales.
• Collation of monthly HSE KPI statistics and communication to relevant parties.
• To maintain HSE documentation, ensuring that it is reviewed, and changes communicated appropriately.
• Advise and support the management team on all health, safety and environmental issues.
• Conduct internal audits to ensure that all compliance is up to date and standards maintained. Ensure that corrective actions from these internal audits are recorded, actioned and closed.
• Source and maintain availability of PPE stocks.
• Organise internal health, safety and environmental training of personnel.
• Conduct DSE assessments.
• Support pregnancy risk assessment process.
• To perform other duties as directed by HSE Manager.

The experience you'll bring to the team:

• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent
• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent desirable
• Internal audit trained desirable
• Good Health, Safety and Environment experience.
• Use of all Microsoft applications (Word, Excel etc).
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate at all levels within the business.
• Ability to work under own initiative.

Are you up to the challenge?

If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this role apply now

*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.