Warehouse Health & Safety Officer

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Our vision - we are building the planet’s most admired and compelling brand ecosystem

Our purpose - we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Own itand back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the result
• Think without limits - Think, think fast, think fearlessly
• Be relevant -Relevantto our people, our partners and the planet

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

The Role: The Warehouse Healthand Safety Officeris  responsible for providing competent health, safety and wellbeing advice and support across the designated operational areas within the Shirebrook Distribution Centre.

The role supports the Warehouse Healthand Safety  Section Manage rand the wider Health and Safety Teamin implementing the site's Healthand Safety Management System by undertaking inspections, audits, investigations, risk assessments and engagement activities to ensure legal compliance, reduce operational risk and promote a positive health and safety culture.

Working closely with operational managers, engineering, facilities, HR, training teams and colleagues, the postholder will provide practical guidance to ensure hazards are identified, risks are effectively controlled and continuous improvement opportunities are delivered.

Reporting to the Warehouse

Health & Safety Section Manager, the role provides professional advice, coaching and operational support while helping to achieve site health and safety objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide competent health and safety advice, guidance and support to operational managers, supervisors and colleagues.
• Support the implementation of the site's Healthand Safety Management System.
• Conduct planned workplace inspections, audits and assurance activities to monitor compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Complete and review suitable and sufficient risk assessments, COSHH assessments and Safe Systems of Work.
• Support accident, incident, near miss and high-potential event investigations, identifying immediate, underlying and root causes.
• Monitor corrective and preventative actions to ensure actions are completed within agreed timescales.
• Promote hazard reporting, near miss reporting and workforce engagement initiatives.
• Deliver toolbox talks, safety briefings and awareness campaigns across operational departments.
• Support behavioural safety programmes through coaching, observations and positive intervention.
• Monitor compliance with key UK Healthand Safety legislation including,Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974,Management of Healthand Safety at Work Regulations, PUWER, LOLER,COSHH, DSEAR, Manual Handling Operations Regulations, Work at Height Regulations, Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations,CDM Regulations (where applicable).
• Support operational changes, engineering activities, warehouse automation projects and facilities works by providing practical health and safety advice.
• Participate in contractor monitoring,permit towork compliance and contractor inductions.
• Support occupational health programmes including health surveillance, wellbeing initiatives and fitness for work processes.
• Assist with emergency preparedness arrangements including fire safety, first aid, evacuation exercises and spill response.
• Maintain accurate health and safety records, inspection reports, audit findings and investigation documentation.
• Produce regular health and safety reports and KPI…