Health and Safety Advisor HPC

Purpose of the Role

The Health & Safety Advisor is responsible for ensuring that the project complies with all current H&S at work legislation, all JGL IMS requirements and clients’ site-specific requirements.

The role is site based at Hinckley Point C for the tunnelling phase and is an “on the ground” role.

The Health & Safety Advisor helps to create and maintain a safe and healthy working environment, motivating the workforce through proactive engagement and ensuring RAMS, briefings, TBT’s are briefed to all and are fully complied with.

The Health and Safety Advisor will need to also ensure that all roles of Safety Advisor are covered as part of the H&S advisor role and undertake whichever duties are deemed most appropriate for the betterment of the project or the business. Decisions on what is most appropriate will be decided by the project manager.

• To ensure the safety of yourself and those around you.
• To be embodiment of Living Incident Free Everyday (LIFE).
• Ensure that you understand and sign up in every RAM and SOS Briefing you are working to.
• To show respect for work colleagues and public.
• Ensure you hold the correct qualification for the role you are providing.
• Ensure all near miss, incident or accident are reported and investigated.
• Ensure work areas are neat and tidy at all times. If necessary, stop the work and instruct the team to carry out general housekeeping in the area for a few minutes.
• Carry out and enforce H&S policy to create a safe workplace.
• Use your phone in designated areas only and in a safe way.
• Make sure that you and the rest of your team wear the appropriate PPE.
• No smoking – designated areas only.
• Ensure all COSHH materials are used, stored, and disposed of correctly.
• Never operate plant or equipment that you are neither authorized nor trained to use.
• Manage and understand the PSHW (psychosocial health at work) of your team, working with SHEQ to ensure PSHW risks are controlled or eliminated.