Health and Safety

As a Health & Safety Responsible, you will play a key role in driving Health & Safety initiatives across the market, ensuring safe workplaces, legal compliance, and strong preventive practices across all stores, offices, and operations. You oversee risk assessments, incident management, training, audits, and travel-risk processes while partnering cross‑functionally to embed a strong safety culture.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Lead and oversee all aspects of workplace safety and compliance across our locations.
• Ensure compliance with country specific Health & Safety laws & regulations, as well as global guidelines and routines.
• Fosters a culture of safety and contribute to a secure environment for both employees and customers.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Health & Safety Policies, procedures, and manuals in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct risk assessments and controls, identify potential hazards, recommend corrective actions, and follow up to ensure implementation.
• Lead incident investigations and prepare detailed reports, including root-cause analysis and preventive measures.
• Organize and deliver health and safety training to employees (e.g. fire safety, manual handling, first aid, etc).
• Act as the main contact for regulatory bodies, labour inspections, insurance representatives, emergency services and external healthy and safety partners.
• Provide safety & security support for travelers & execute Travel tracker protocols, including emergency travel response plans.
• Maintain direct contact with Prevention Delegates and Health & Safety Committees.

You will work closely with the Health & Safety team, Store Teams, the Construction & Facilities team, People teams, and Operations to integrate safety standards into daily operations.

We are looking for people with...

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational and/or Environmental H&S or relevant related fields.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Health & Safety role, preferably within retail, logistics, or warehouse operations.
• Experience in conducting inspections, audits, and investigations.
• In-depth knowledge of H&S regulations, compliance standards & best practices.
• Proficiency in incident management (reporting, data analysis for trend identification, and corrective action planning).
• Strong understanding of occupational safety principles, accident investigation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Fluency in Spanish and English both written and spoken.
• Portugues is considered an advantage.

• Strong analytical thinkers and problem-solvers.
• Excellent communicators with strong interpersonal skills, able to train, engage and create commitment with others.
• Strong negotiators, capable of building constructive relationships and driving alignment among multiple stakeholders.
• Highly organized, with strong communication skills and a proactive, hands‑on approach.

H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.

We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.

At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.

• 25% Staff discount on all our H&M Group brands, both in stores and online (H&M, COS, Weekday,…