Health and Safety Apprenticeship

**Health and Safety Apprentice Job Vacancy**

Department
- Health and Safety

Reports to the Head of Health and Safety

Location: Cheadle, on-site

**Role overview/introduction**

As a health and safety apprentice you will part of the environment, health and safety team. You will work with many different people across the Klarius group to help them operate in a safe way. You will learn how to provide advice, to help assess risk, carry out visits.

**Package description**:

- Excellent career progression
- this is a great opportunity to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation
- Training and development opportunities
- learn from specialised training providers whilst completing on the job training
- Benefits
- competitive apprenticeship salary package

**Pre-entry criteria**

**Qualifications earnt**
- Working towards becoming a fully qualified safety, health and environment technician (level 3)
- The level of apprenticeship chosen is dependent upon the learners skills and experience

**Role responsibility**

You will help to develop, review and check on the implementation of safe systems of work, develop and review risk assessments, investigate incidents and present findings to management.

Sometimes you will work on your own to resolve queries, other times you will be working in a team. Over time you will develop the skills and technical understanding to show colleagues how health and safety can help the businesses operation as well as protecting staff.
- You enjoy helping people and solving problems
- You have excellent attention to detail
- You are a ‘people person’ and enjoy working with others
- You have a good grasp of Microsoft word and have an understanding of Excel

**During the Apprenticeship & Training period of employment**:
The training element of your role will build the knowledge, understanding and fundamental competence to meet the capability criteria for your substantive position:
**Upon completion of your safety, Health and Environment Technician apprenticeship, individuals will understand**:

- The moral reasons for good safety, health and environmental working practices, ensuring no harm to the people or the environment
- The statutory health, safety and environmental legislation and sources of associated guidance and information applicable to their working environment
- How SHE (safety, health, envrionment) management system works, the range of standards which a typical HSE profession would be involved with and if applicable how these are applied in their working environment
- Appropriate methods for identifying, evaluating and controlling hazards relevant to their workplace. E.g., 5 steps to Risk Assessment and involving people who are experienced in the activity.
- The range of work activities in a given situation and identify how to prioritise and scope out the hazard with the potential to cause harm and/or loss.
- The difference between occupational hygiene, health surveillance and health and wellbeing campaigns and methods for implementing these in the workplace.
- How to plan and have systems in place to manage change during an activity relevant to the working environment.
- How people think and why they make decisions which can lead to risk, how behaviours can be used, the components of a behavioural program and potential blockers to the successful implementation of a behavioural programme.
- How to plan for Safety, Health or Environmental emergencies - e.g. accidents, exposure to hazardous substances, fire, pollution.
- Theories for incident causation and prevention including behavioural considerations and implications on business risk (fines, reputation, lost work etc.).
- How to write and present a business justification e.g. cost/benefit analysis to influence managers.
- Understanding training requirements for operatives and management

**Professional Skills**

**Upon completion of their Safety, Health and Environment Technician apprenticeship, individuals will be able to**:

- Present and hold an audience’s attention, for example when delivering SHE training, toolbox talks, inductions or presenting data or investigation findings to the workforce or management team
- Show they can sell the SHE message, have personal impact, deal with challenge, reflect on personal performance and use appropriate language for the audience.
- Assist the management team in the development, management, implementation and monitoring of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management System by updating systems in line with changes in legislation or best practice, delivering training, coaching operational teams and undertaking workplace inspections.
- Provide advice on the practical implementation of KPLs SHE policies and processes
- Support and assist in the implementation of SHE inspections and monitoring systems demonstrating the balance between enforcement and internal support.
- Undertake and/or assist with the monitoring, analysis of and reporting of SHE perfor