The post holder will be covering out East and South Forest Districts plus other business units and districts as required. Ideally you will be based in our South or East district offices, which include Lyndhurst (The New Forest) Hampshire, Bucks Horn Oak Hampshire, Bedgebury Kent, Wendover Buckinghamshire or Santon Downham Suffolk.
Frequent travel will be required to locations across at least two forest districts to support teams and attend meetings. Occasional overnight stays will be required.
The duties of this post require the applicant to have a full current driving licence that enables them to drive in the UK. However, the FC is willing to consider any proposals put forward by applicants that would allow them to do the job by other means.
• provide competent health and safety advice and support across the organisation.
• help make sure Forestry England staff and partners meet relevant duties and legislation.
• apply best practice and support improving our health and safety culture.
• support line managers embedding health and safety arrangements with their teams by attending/holding
regular support visits, demonstrations, toolbox talks, problem-solving and coaching, making sure solutions
are implemented quickly for hazards identified.
• work with national teams to support applying health and safety policy, procedures, systems, and
processes.
• support developing and implementing corporate risk assessments.
• develop and review new and existing health and safety policies, procedures and guidance by consulting
managers and staff involved in relevant tasks and processes.
• support line managers to have good quality incident investigations, identifying lessons learned for sharing
and implementing.
• provide coaching and support to managers and staff to implement health and safety systems including
Airsweb, Peoplesafe, WorkRite, CoSHH and others where necessary.
• develop and introduce ways of communicating and engaging people on health and safety matters relevant
to different audiences, using a range of techniques that are inclusive.
• support developing and implementing new initiatives.
• support health and safety governance arrangements by contributing to relevant groups, committees, and
networks.
• develop and do health and safety audits, providing recommendations for improvement and identifying best
practice.
And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager.
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