Departmental Safety Officer Sd22/223

2 months ago

New Haw, United Kingdom Animal and Plant Health Agency Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 331202**Salary**:

- £42,577 - £47,039- Pro-rata for job share.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- APHA - Science - Pathology & Animal Sciences Department**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- New Haw, South East England, KT15 3NBAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government. Our diverse teams of over 2,000 skilled and committed professionals come together to provide research, advice and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.

The post holder is responsible for safety technical assurance in their department, providing comprehensive and consistent technical assurance of laboratory and specialist environments and work practices including higher containment laboratory facilities and large animal post mortem facilities. They will provide scientific and technical support and input into the adoption and development of new technologies required for pathology and animal science delivery within the pathology laboratories estate and in other facilities where pathology laboratory procedures are undertaken. A proportion of the role will also focus on the delivery of pathology scientific goals within a high containment setting.

The post-holder must enable and work to ensure legal compliance in all areas of responsibility collaborating with the Biorisk team and other specialist advisors in SHaW and the Pathology and Animal Sciences Department to identify areas for improvements and to implement these and flag areas of concern or non-compliance to the senior management team in the department.

**Job description**:
**Provide technical assurance that we are working safely**

The post-holder will spend time talking to and working with staff in laboratories and specialist areas, observing procedures and verifying that staff are working according to their job descriptions, protocols and safety. This will also involve the post holder delivering scientific objectives and undertaking procedures within laboratory facilities. That equipment works as it should and identifying areas of concern or areas where shortcuts have become embedded. They will identify where protocols can be improved and work in liaison with staff and managers to implement these changes.

**Provision of advice, information, instruction, training and assessment**

The DSO will assist their department line management in providing suitable and sufficient information and instruction to staff. This will include:

- Providing relevant training information for staff to carry out their role
- Providing training for staff as necessary and where applicable (e.g. safety critical roles, such as building officer, and technical scientific training)
- Cascading information from the Health & Safety department to staff within their department
- Providing input into staff training plans through the identification and recommendation of internal and/or external training courses, ensuring relevant training is identified and provided
- Delivering two least two toolbox talks, or other suitable local training presentations are delivered to staff each year
- Ensuring staff within their remit are aware of the actions to be taken in the event of an emergency, ensuring that at least one local contingency exercise of each type is practised per year within each workgroup and that it is recorded on the appropriate system
- All local, corporate, divisional and departmental induction training is recorded (including safety committees, policies and procedures) in individuals’ training records
- Ensuring that inspections, audits, tours are booked in, recorded on safeguard and completed on time
- Representing their department at any new build, refurbishment or annual maintenance works pre-start and/or co-ordination meetings to ensure that all parties are aware of the hazards and risks associated with the work and that appropriate control measures are implemented to mitigate those risks

**Risk Assessments**

It is not the DSO’s duty to conduct/write all the risk assessments for their department, but to ensure that risk assessments are:

- Carried out before new work commences
- Reviewed and rewritten where existing assessments are inadequate or inappropriate
- Reviewed and revised, where necessary, following any change(s) to procedures, equipment, substances, premises, people or legislation, and following any accident or incident
- Not unnecessarily duplicated and where possible merge RA to provide more generic cover
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