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1. Responsible for ensuring that the university has an appropriate and effective pan-institutional health and safety framework to facilitate the attainment of the University’s strategic goals, including policy evolution, information dissemination, document control, training, monitoring and auditing, and review. 2. Responsible for the development of long term Health & Safety plans across the University, ensuring clear articulation of roles and robust alignment between the central Health & Safety team and the faculty/service roles.
9. Responsible for establishing and maintaining effective professional relationships with Enforcing Authorities (HSE, Local Authority, Environment Agency, Fire Authority) on behalf of the University, in order to protect the University’s interests, in terms of legal compliance and the reputation of the University. 10. Continue to develop and deploy effective systems for formal and informal consultation and communication, on health and safety issues, with employees, students, trade unions and other stakeholders identified by University management. 11. Provide Council, the Vice-Chancellor, University Executive Group (UEB), the Council – Safety, Health and Wellbeing (C-SHaW) Committee, its sub-committees and other relevant University bodies with regular information, comprehensive reports, data and analysis in relation to Health and Safety performance and compliance against agreed performance indicators.
3. Play a lead role and take some responsibility for driving forward cultural change in relation to health and safety across the institution.
4. Responsible for developing and maintaining a sustainable and progressive Health and Safety function that is positioned to meet the evolving needs of the institution. This should include agreeing role definition, minimum competence standards, performance review and objective setting, succession planning and the ongoing development of colleagues both within the central health & safety team and across the broader faculty/service health and safety appointed personnel. 5. Responsible for ensuring that staff at all levels of management within the institution, are fully appraised and aware of their legal and moral obligations under the HASAW Act, 1974 and all associated Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Codes of Practice and Guidance, other relevant Statutory Provisions, and under civil law. 6. Responsible for the review, development and implementation of the University Health and Safety Policy and subsidiary arrangements and guidance, such that the incidence of accidents, incidents, cases of occupational ill health, actions by Enforcing Authorities, and civil claims relating to health and safety, are minimised in number and impact, monitored, and the institution’s performance benchmarked and communicated to senior management . 7. Responsible for monitoring, scrutinising and auditing the University’s health and safety performance and compliance, against recognised standards and parameters, and informing senior management accordingly, whilst seeking to effectively spread best practice and lessons learned consistently throughout the institution.
12. Manage the staff, functions [including budget] and service delivery.
13. As a member of the People & OE Leadership Team, play a leadership role in the overall development and enhancement of the People & OE Division and the services it delivers.
14. Take action to suspend any work which in the opinion of the role-holder, poses an imminent risk of serious personal injury
15. Manage the following services provided for the University: • The maintenance of appropriate records as required by legislation or University policy. • The provision of assistance to departments in the carrying out of audits of departmental health.
8. Establish and deliver a system and process improvement plan for health and safety across the institution.
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