Health and Safety Officer

Overview

Are you a Health & Safety professional, looking for an excellent career move into a growing UK company (100+ staff) in the scientific & bio research environment?

If so, we have a great role for a Health & Safety Officer, looking to grow their career into Health & Safety Manager & beyond! Working closely with the Head of Facilities management, you ll own the H&S piece across 2 sites – so a car & valid Licence is essential for the role.

Job title:

Health & Safety Officer.

Location:

North of Cambridge. Good commutes from St Ives, Ely, Cambridge, Huntington, March, down from Peterborough etc.

We offer a hybrid working environment: 2 days in office work & 3 days from your home office, with flexibility to suit you, or workload requirements.

Salary: ~£40K Basic + Benefits package

• Perform and review H&S risk assessments to cover in-house activities at all sites (currently
  2), and perform or arrange fire safety risk assessments and water risk assessments, etc.
• Review, and support with, the writing of COSHH assessments relating to use of chemicals, reagents and solvents used across sites.
• Work with the Biological Safety Officer (BSO) to ensure safe practices in activities involving biological material and assess the competence of persons to work safely.
• Ensure all staff are adequately trained in H&S, including essential H&S onboarding, first aiders, fire wardens etc.
• And the usual H&S activities! Chair H&S meetings with FM, write & review H&S policies, audit & benchmark against best practice, etc.

• A good understanding of H&S legislation, including COSHH regulations.
• Understanding of the legal framework surrounding use of biological materials (e.g. GMO (Contained Use) regulations, SAPO, ACDP guidance etc.) is desirable but not essential.
• Experience working in laboratory environments is essential
• Holds a H&S qualification, such as IOSH or NEBOSH. (Either one)

We d love to hear from you – please apply now for a speedy response.