Health, Safety

The Health, Safety and Environmental Lead is responsible for supporting the operations teams with implementing the safety policy and standards for the business with the end goal in keeping our employees safe and reducing accidents, as well as the environmental policy and standards. Monitoring standards on our site to establish and embed a culture of Health and Safety, and environmental awareness across the business. Demonstrate visionary leadership and strong governance, while continuously looking for opportunities to reduce accidents and improve our environmental efficiency. The Health, Safety and Environmental Lead will be responsible for communicating our plans, reporting performance, and continuously increasing awareness of safety and environmental management on our Leeming Bar site.

**General Responsibilities**
- Develop and support a culture of Health and Safety
- Responsible for Daily KPI reporting from area of responsibility.
- Lead health and safety incident and accident investigations to determine root cause and define preventative and corrective action.
- Assist with the reduce claims and insurance cost by actively completing risk assessment, assessing workplace hazards, reducing / eliminating risks through safe working procedure.
- Support the site's response to Regulatory, Corporate and Environmental Management System audits & certifications. Ensure that adequate procedures, processes, controls, and reporting are in place to enable the business to track performance against the key health, safety and environmental metrics.
- Responsible for ensuring that all paperwork is completed accurately and legibly.
- Responsible for reporting any deviations from daily plan.
- Responsible for controlling WIP stock rotation.
- Responsible for ensuring product quality meets or exceeds customer specification.
- Reporting daily shortages of employees.
- Responsible for product manufacture and quality.
- Responsible for the training of direct reports

**Pre
- Requisite Responsibilities**

Health +Safety (**Do the Right Thing)**
- Proactive approach to creating an H&S culture within team.
- Accountable for delivering H&S metrics.
- Responsible for supporting H&S on compliance and H&S system management.
- Responsible for supporting SLT on delivery of H&S strategy.
- Proactive approach to creating an H&S culture within team.
- Providing a safe and positive environment for our colleagues

Food Safety + Quality (**Bring** **Better Quality Food to Everyone Every Day)**
- Ensuring all products produced and dispatched are compliant with Food Safety Regulations
- Ensuring that all activities managed in line with external audit standards (BRC) and or customer specifications
- Taking a pro-active approach to product quality and good manufacturing practice.

Culture - **Care, Commitment, Trust**
- Operating and communicating with colleagues in a respectful and positive manner
- Pro-actively supporting colleagues in achieving personal and company goals
- Positively growing a positive working environment encompassing all pre-requisite responsibilities
- Be self-aware as a leader. Be open to change. Listen to ideas & concerns openly. Show people that you care by giving genuine feedback on ideas & concerns & rewarding if/when relevant. Communicate effectively. Always remain professional & calm. Always do the right thing. Acknowledge & address your mistakes with honesty & integrity

Continuous Improvement **(Entrepreneurial Spirit)**
- Developing teams to embrace and drive a continuous improvement culture
- To develop and improve people, yield, throughput,
- Work collaboratively to improve results on identified projects
- Reduce waste (utilities, product, packaging)