Health And Safety Officer

 

Description:

To provide advice for enquiries into the Health and Safety Team, coordinating and retaining health and safety related data and documentation ensuring quality and accuracy.

Key Responsibilities
 

  • Respond to all enquiries in a timely and accurate manner, providing advice on policy and process related matters
  • Recognise personal limitations and escalate matters to the Health and Safety Advisors, when they are outside of your level of expertise
  • Ensure all incident records are accurately completed, requesting further detail where required to complete the record
  • Identify incidents that require investigation, and depending on severity either request the relevant information from the line manager or notify the Health and Safety Advisor that will provide support
  • Ensure internal stakeholders are notified of pertinent detail / records relating to incidents
  • Identify incidents that require notification to the HSE under RIDDOR and ensure the Health and Safety Advisor / Head of Health and Safety is notified
  • Ensure all RIDDOR documentation is logged and retained within the incident recording system
  • Monitor the completion of investigations for quality and accuracy
  • Analyse reports for any emerging trends and notify the Health and Safety Advisor / Head of Health and Safety of any trends identified
  • Alert the Health and Safety Advisor / Head of Health and Safety of any significant incidents as soon as possible
  • Ensure that the action plan process is managed and that accurate data is provided to LPA’s and Departments
  • Manage the walkthrough inspections process, ensuring that notifications are provided to stakeholders
  • Ensure the quality of the walkthrough inspections is of a high standard and provide further advice and to stakeholders where issues are identified
  • Manage the local health and safety committee process, ensuring that meetings are scheduled and are provided with the required management information
  • Record the minutes of the health and safety committees, ensuring a high level of quality and retain them for evidential purposes
  • Attend meetings to update on matters of policy and process
  • Ensure risk assessments that are submitted are suitable and sufficient (as defined by Regulations) and retain them for future reference
  • Manage the review process for risk assessment, issuing reminders to stakeholders as required
  • Ensure fire safety management information is collated and reminders are issued to key stakeholders for activities such as fire drills, evacuation plan review, weekly alarm testing and fire risk assessment
  • Maintain records of the Site Safety Leads and build effective working relationships with the to ensure a smooth flow of information
  • Monitor the health and safety website to ensure information to ensure the information available is accurate
  • Manage the Document Control process to ensure the information provided by the team remains current
  • Manage the CX system for the team ensuring any actions are completed within a timely manner
  • Build effective working relationships with stakeholders e.g. Insurance and Risk Manager, Property Services Team, Facilities Team, IT&D
  • Produce health and safety data to answer requests for information, including:
    • Benchmarking data
    • Investigation data
    • FOI Requests
    • Data for Audits
    • Bespoke data requests
    • Performance data
  • Ensure the incident recording system is managed to maintain access for users by working closely with IT&D colleagues
  • Develop the system to include all areas of safety management as guided by the Head of Health and Safety
  • Support the team on the use of the systems and processes.

Essential Skills
 

  • Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, particularly Excel
  • Proactive and practical approach
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships
  • Creative and driven to deliver
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Customer focused
  • The ability to challenge constructively.
     

Desirable Skills
 

  • Level 3 qualification in Occupational Safety and Health
  • Minimum of two years’ experience in health and safety
  • Knowledge / Experience of the Police Service

Organization West Midlands Police
Industry Beauty / Health / Fitness Jobs
Occupational Category Health and Safety Officer
Job Location Birmingham,UK
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Intermediate
Experience 2 Years
Posted at 2026-02-03 4:18 pm
Expires on 2026-03-20