Health & Safety Business Partner

Job no: 566627
Work type: Full time
Categories: HR/People
Location: Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Worcestershire
Salary: Competitive
Business Area: Halfords Support Centre

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

We are looking for a Health and Safety Business Partner to cover a patch across Southwest England and South Wales to support a robust and sustainable health and safety culture across Halfords Garages, Halfords Retail and Halfords Mobile Experts. Overcoming cultural and behavioural challenges to monitor and steer progress whilst identifying the impact of safety processes and practices, ensuring these are implemented to the highest possible standards.

This role will build rapport and strengthen relationships across the Halfords Group to both empower & promote colleagues to take ownership of health & safety.

• To undertake audits and workplace/area inspections to proactively identify where health & safety management practices and overall standards can be improved.
• Provide written reports by the way of inspection, visible safety leadership (VSL), and monthly summaries where necessary to assist Halfords in implementing solutions to improve its overall health & safety performance.
• To undertake investigations for all accidents, incidents, significant events, and safety concerns as required to identify both root cause and preventative measures to prevent reoccurrence.
• Provide both competent and expert advice on all health & safety matters that arise when called upon.
• Prioritise and respond to safety concerns identified from colleagues, contractors, and visitors who enter any Halfords Group operation.
• Liaise with enforcement agencies in conjunction with both the Senior Health & Safety Business Partner and Group Head of Health & Safety.
• To contribute to the design, development, production, and delivery of training materials including (but not limited to) risk assessments, safe working procedures, manual handling, traffic management, wellbeing & welfare, vehicle operations, housekeeping standards, PUWER, LOLER etc... ensuring that appropriate records are kept, and quality of content meets the specific requirements of the Group.
• Assist the Group Head of Health & Safety and Senior Health & Safety Business Partner in maintaining effective working relationships with Halfords Directors, Managers, Colleagues, Trade Unions, Partners, Contractors, and all other relevant stakeholders.
• Identify, promote, and raise awareness of ‘Good Practice’ throughout the Halfords Group.
• To liaise and support the Halfords Group on all matters concerned or connected with Employee and Public Liability whilst always maintaining the strictest confidentiality.
• Assist management and departmental heads with site improvement plans to aid continuous improvement in all matters related to health & safety.

• Established experience within a health & safety
• Experience with in a multi-site locations
• Proven record of promoting a positive health & safety performance culture.
• Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate with both internal & external stakeholders at a management level.
• Good understanding…