Role Title: Health & Safety Officer
Reports to: Trading & Operations Director
Hours: Full-time/36.5 hours per week over 5 days, to include some evenings, weekends and special events
Salary: from £35,000pa, dependant on experience
Location: All Ironbridge Gorge Museum sites, as required
Closing Date for Applications: 9am Monday 20 January 2025
Function:
To co-ordinate, support and advise managers on all aspects of Health and Safety Management. To establish, manage and monitor standards, processes, communications, training and systems to ensure all responsibilities associated with Health and Safety within the organisation are adhered to, and to ensure that disruption to the Company’s critical functions is minimised. Develop a sensible and proportionate approach to managing safety across the Museum environment displaying sensitivity to the historic properties and landscapes, ensuring access to a safe environment is provided to all Visitors.
Duties Include (but not limited to):
* Ensuring a safe workplace environment without risk to health
* Ensuring that all health & safety policies, procedures, safe systems of work, rules and regulations are adhered to and are regularly reviewed, updated and communicated
* Ensuring the Company meets its statutory obligations in all areas pertaining to health, safety and welfare at work, including liaison with the Volunteer and HR Manager on the provision of statutory training and reporting
* Ensuring staff undertake at least annual reviews of risk assessments for all work equipment & operations and where new risks are identified undertake an assessment
* Ensuring that all accidents are documented, where appropriate investigated and recommended improvements implemented
* Ensuring that safety inspections are carried out, fire drills and fire alarms are undertaken and recorded, safety inspections, risk assessments and lone working procedures are managed and employees/volunteers are aware of their responsibilities
* To promote a culture of continuous improvement in health & safety standards across the Museum
* To develop the organisations systems to ensure a full programme of documented health & safety inspections, audits and checks
* To provide health and safety papers/reports for the Board of Trustees and Trading Company Board
* To establish a structured programme of health & safety training throughout the Company in conjunction with the Volunteer and HR Manager
* To liaise with external health & safety consultants in the provision of training programmes and health and safety services
* To undertake duties when appropriate as the Designated Safeguarding Officer
* To devise the agenda for and formulate & distribute minutes to all stakeholders for the health & safety meetings. Ensure that all agreed action points are completed within deadlines
* To participate in monthly meetings when required to report on relevant health & safety matters
* To liaise with suppliers i.e. insurers, solicitors and contractors
* To undertake any other reasonable duties which may be required by management from time to time.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
* NEBOSH qualification or equivalent
* Good IT skills
* Experience of managing health & safety investigations
* Experience of formulating, implementing and revising health & safety policies and procedures.
Special Aptitudes
* Confidential in all matters
* Professional approach, coupled with strong interpersonal skills
* Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills
* Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
* Ability to work on own initiative
Staff benefits include:
* Paid annual leave up to 33 days (includes public holidays), pro-rata for part-time staff
* Auto enrolment to the Nest Pension Scheme for eligible staff
* Optional health cash plan through Paycare
* Free on-site parking.
Participation in a Staff Membership Scheme which includes:
* Free unlimited daytime standard entry to all museums for staff member plus one accompanying adult and up to four children
* 20% discount on catering spend, including the Furnace Kitchen
* 20% discount on retail spend
* 20% discount on retail spend in Victorian exhibits at Blists Hill
* 4 free standard day-time admission passes for use by friends and family accompanying staff member
* Discount on special event tickets.
About the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is an industrial heritage organisation which runs ten museums and manages multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
The Trust operates various food outlets including the recently opened flagship restaurant The Furnace Kitchen. As well as visitor catering outlets the Museum also offers various Conference & Banqueting and Wedding and Event locations across our sites.
Our commitment to diversity and equality is a long-standing one. We believe arts organisations, museums, and libraries should ensure that their work draws on and reflects the full range of backgrounds and perspectives to be found in our society.
Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people, those from Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are under-represented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Discounted or free food
* Employee discount
* Free parking
* On-site parking
* Store discount
Schedule:
* Monday to Friday
* Weekend availability
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 20/01/2025
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