Health and Safety Business Partner

Great health and safety is not achieved through compliance alone. It is built through strong leadership, proactive risk management, meaningful engagement with people, and a culture where everyone takes ownership for creating a safe and healthy workplace. By combining expert advice, practical support, robust systems, and continuous improvement, we help ensure that safety is embedded into everything we do.

As a Health & Safety Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in supporting Scottish Leather Group’s commitment to protecting our people, maintaining legal compliance, and driving a positive health and safety culture across our operations. Working closely with Directors, Managers, Supervisors, Employees, Contractors, Engineering, Human Resources, and external specialists, you’ll help influence decision-making, improve performance, and ensure health and safety remains at the heart of our business.

From developing systems and supporting investigations to coaching leaders, analysing performance data, and driving continuous improvement initiatives, your expertise and influence will help create safer workplaces and better outcomes for everyone across the organisation.

• Partner with leaders and operational teams to embed health and safety into everyday business activities, decision‑making, and strategic planning
• Provide expert advice and guidance on health and safety legislation, risk management, compliance requirements, and best practice
• Monitor health and safety performance, analyse trends, prepare reports, and identify opportunities to improve standards and reduce risk
• Support investigations into incidents, accidents, and near misses, ensuring root causes are identified and effective corrective actions are implemented
• Develop and enhance health and safety management systems, policies, procedures, and initiatives while supporting the ongoing maintenance of ISO 45001 certification
• Deliver or coordinate training, coaching, communications, and awareness programmes to strengthen understanding and promote a proactive safety culture
• Support audits, inspections, contractor management processes, risk assessments, and safe systems of work to ensure workplaces remain safe and compliant
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in health, safety, wellbeing, and occupational health performance

You understand that health and safety is about more than policies and procedures. It is about influencing behaviour, building relationships, understanding risk, supporting operational excellence, and creating an environment where people can perform safely everyday.

• You will hold, as a minimum, the requirements for Chartered Membership of IOSH and possess a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent qualification
• You will have proven experience in a Health & Safety Advisor, Business Partner, or similar role, ideally within a manufacturing or operational environment
• You will bring a strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation, management systems, and best practice, with the ability to apply these effectively across a diverse organisation
• You will demonstrate excellent communication, coaching, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage confidently at all levels of the business
• You will have experience investigating incidents, identifying root causes, and supporting sustainable improvements in health and safety performance
• You will possess strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and communicate meaningful insights through concise reports
• You will be highly organised, capable of managing competing priorities, meeting deadlines, and working…