ROLE DESCRIPTION
Post: Head of Health and Safety Responsible to: Director of Estates and Facilities Management Direct reports: Three
• To take lead responsibility for health and safety communications with staff at all levels of the organisation to promote better health and safety management. • To promote a safety culture throughout the organisation by keeping up-to-date with the legislation and developments in the field of health and safety. • To create and regularly monitor the College Health and Safety Strategy and Action Plan. • Regularly monitor the safety performance of the University and its departments by inspections and incident investigations, and feed outcomes into the strategic role. • Contribute expertise to core strategies and policies and identify opportunities to ensure health and safety risks are adequately controlled. • Monitor, analyse and report health and safety incident data and significant incidents to responsible managers, committees and groups for action and to achieve adequate oversight at a senior level. • Report incidents to the HSE that meet the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) criteria. To lead and manage the health and safety team and service. Provide clear purpose and direction linked to the College Health and Safety Plan workstreams. Develop and motivate the health and safety team to ensure their professional competency, support their continuing personal development, training requirements, and other professional development requirements according to business need. • To act as Business Continuity lead for Health and Safety. • To have responsibility for PEEPS and review RASRS in relation to students and staff. • To have responsibility for the fire safety records, evacuations and management procedures. Management •
Main duties and responsibilities Main duties:
As Goldsmiths’ Head of Health and Safety, you will be responsible for the Health and Safety Legislation within the organisation. You will provide direction, strategy and objectives for health and safety of all of our activities. You will continually develop and improve the management of health and safety by providing leadership and direction for the health and safety team and their functions, working with senior colleagues across all directorates to ensure the safety of staff, students and visitors in all of our actions. You will be a professional adviser and co-ordinator for health and safety issues, working with members of the Estates & Facilities Senior Management Team and staff representatives to develop the culture for health and safety and will undertake a key role in reporting to the Health and Safety Committee. Key tasks include: • Act as lead authority in the College on Health and Safety across all departments and professional services, taking a leading role by working in partnership, to ensure a consistent, professional and positive approach to the management of health and safety, and to promote and engender appropriate culture change and organisation development. • To protect, where possible, the University against the impact of litigation and reputational risk arising out of breaches of the aforementioned acts and regulations. • To lead on Health and Safety Policy, standards, procedures and processes which take into account legal requirement and good practice, as well as user needs now and, in the future, to ensure the management of health and safety is consistent and easy to achieve. Regularly review these, taking into account user feedback, audit outcomes, updates in good practice and changes in legal requirements.
Appointment of Head of Health and Safety
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