Health & Safety Lead - Logistics

Location: Regional role- Berkshire, Surrey, Midlands

Salary: £45k + bonus

Job responsibilities

In partnership with the Head of Safety, you will drive the safety strategy, promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Working closely with the Logistics team, you will ensure that our Health & Safety procedures are effectively implemented, upheld, and enhanced, making a real difference in the day-to-day safety of our operations.

Shape Our Safety Standards: Lead the development, review, and update of policies, procedures, and documentation, ensuring consistent implementation across the logistics operations.

Proactively Manage Risk: Ensure compliance with Health & Safety protocols, conduct thorough investigations, and update risk assessments as needed.

Be a Safety Champion: Lead by example and advocate for a positive safety culture, supporting local managers in building the right safety behaviors.

Collaborate on Key Projects: Partner with Planning Managers to assess and manage Health & Safety requirements for new projects, ensuring every initiative meets safety standards.

Provide Expert Guidance: Serve as a key advisor at Health & Safety meetings, provide legislative updates, and support senior management in resolving safety concerns.

Support Incident Reporting and Training: Encourage a proactive approach to reporting incidents, conduct internal audits, and deliver engaging safety training to ensure staff competency.

Lead in the Head of Safety's Absence: Be a confident point of contact, guiding the team and managing safety interactions with third parties.

What You'll Need: Qualifications and Skills

- NEBOSH Certificate or higher (or equivalent) and Graduate Membership of IOSH (or above). - - Additional safety training within logistics environments is highly desirable.
- Proven Leadership: Experience in leading Health & Safety management within logistics
operations.
- Analytical & Strategic Mindset: Strong commercial acumen, planning skills, and the ability
to create effective business solutions.
- Interpersonal Excellence: A collaborative team player with influential communication
skills and the confidence to drive change.
- Tech Savvy: Excellent PC skills, with the ability to analyze numerical data to inform
decisions.
- Clean, current drivers license

If this role appeals to you, you have the required level of experience, and you want to work for a collaborative and driven business, submit your CV today!

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