Health & Safety Manager

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

The role holder is the Health and Safety (H&S) subject matter expert (SME) responsible for coordinating and supporting Business Area (BA) Responsible Director and Manager communities in effective implementation of NATS Group H&S policies, processes, procedures and compliance standards. The role holder delivers services as described below and is the BA assigned competent H&S person.

The BA H&S Manager is accountable to the assigned Responsible Director and is responsible for ensuring local H&S Plans are generated and implemented to discharge against all applicable statutory compliance and risk management duties detailed in the NATS H&S Business Management System.

In the competent person role, the holder shall provide functional support services as required by the Head of H&S.

• Work closely with BA Responsible Director and Manager communities to ensure H&S planning, implementation, BA H&S performance reporting, Assurance and inspection activities and learning from experience requirements are met.
• Support H&S functional Assurance and ISO
  45001 Audit programmes through participation, and as required leading, H&S audits, ensuring all reports, findings and agreed actions are managed in accordance with relevant BMS requirements.
• Manage 1st line Assurance and local inspection plans for the assigned Business Area, minimising disruption and maximising opportunities to deliver continual improvement.
• Manage and maintain the BA hazard logs, ensuring that hazard control and risk management strategies deliver safe and compliant work places and work activities.
• Lead BA H&S governance and performance review forums on behalf of the Responsible Director, contributing to and participating in lower tier H&S meetings as appropriate and agreed.
• On behalf of the Responsible Director, challenge BA H&S performance issues and elevate matters of significance to the responsible leader for resolution.
• Deliver a programme of proportionate H&S duty of care inspections with 3rd party landlords at sites where NATS employees and contractors are resident, as well as on the H&S performance of contractor and sub-contractors engaged by the Business Area.
• Coordinate H&S activities conducted by BA Safety Liaison Officers, Fire Wardens, First Aiders and other H&S role holders.
• Triage and oversee Business Area accident and injury reporting and investigations, ensuring reporting rates are maintained, injuries and HiPo incidents are investigated by trained investigators and actions addressing root causes are implemented to prevent re-occurrence.
• Ensure all statutory H&S reporting requirements for the BA are met, including those under RIDDOR.
• Deliver and report on functional HS risk and/or system improvement projects/activities as assigned using a range of lean methodologies and expert understanding of the H&SMS and NATS BMS.
• Represent BA interests and report on BA performance at NATS governing forums as required, including the H&S Working Group, H&S Oversight Group, BA specific Steering and Working Groups and H&S committees.
• Coordinate and submit BA specific cases for change or investment supporting delivery of the NATS H&S Plan, NATS Business Objectives and Local plans.
• Ensure all H&S statutory duty holder roles in the BA are identified and appointed persons are assessed as competent.
• Coordinate and manage BA H&S training plans, ensuring NATS BMS H&S training and competence requirements are understood and met.
• Manage and coordinate effective learning from experience, ensuring effective analysis and timely close out of H&S actions, recommendations and investigations.
• Coordinate and deliver effective H&S communications across the BA, ensuring prompt attention and action in response to H&S Alerts and other notifications.
• Leading and supporting SLOs in a programme of BA risk-based toolbox talks, supplementing the NATS mandatory H&S training programme.
• Provision of H&S Emergency Response planning support and advice.
• H&S STOP notifications oversight and support to BA Responsible Directors, providing assurance on…