HSE Advisor

Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran, in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including:

• Water
• Transport
• Energy

We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects, developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.

Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do, as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.

We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including:

• MEICA
• Temporary and permanent design
• Steel-fabrication
• Signs (design and fabrication)
• Health & safety equipment and products, including PPE

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Why join Barhale?

• As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
• Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
• A broad range of civil engineering, mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
• Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within, as we believe this is a key driver of our success

The Role

As HSE Advisor, you will support a number of projects to meet the requirements of the Health, Safety & Environmental Management systems. You will assist the site teams and managers through your inspections by recognising hazards and seeking to minimise risks whilst creating, maintaining, and improving health, safety & environmental standards. You will champion HSE initiatives in the workplace whilst ensuring that legislation is adhered to.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the provision of Health & well-being within the business, under the direction of the HSE Manager
• Support the communication and promotion of the monthly themes
• Promote the value of occupational health at a local level
• Provide consistent and accurate HSE advice to employees
• Deliver support to regions on HSE initiatives/Issues and Problems
• Contribute to general communications at a local level
• Compile and communicate HSE alerts following incidents to promote learning, prevention and continual improvement under the direction and review of the HSE Manager
• Undertaking timely investigations in accordance with time frames set-out in CG151-01 Guidance on Incident Investigation & Reporting
• Keep HSE Manager, Head of HSE and local management informed on incident investigation status
• Identify Immediate, Underlying and Root causes within relevant investigation reports
• Produce HSE alerts where appropriate in consultation with the HSE Manager
• Monitoring, verifying & supporting the reporting HSE statistics for regions monthly as directed by HSE Manager
• Log all significant PI’s, Minor Injuries, RIDDORS and SIF and PSIF incidents onto Envoy, completing the investigation (for significant PI’s, RIDDORS, LTi’s, SIF & PSIF and Service Strikes with the potential to cause harm)
• Support the production of a monthly HSE report for HSE Manager and Regional Lead, incorporating locally agreed information and content
• Ensure internal and external HSE alerts are cascaded within regions where appropriate
• Support monitoring of regional HSE trends, highlighting areas for improvement and supporting Heads of HSE, HSE Managers and Regional Leads on improvement deliverables
• Support the production and cascade of monthly PI posters with ‘closing the loop’ information
• Provide monthly HSE statistics as directed by the HSE Manager and Client
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