Senior Operational Safety Advisor (Occupational)

Job description

Our client is looking for a Senior Operational Safety Advisor (Occupational) for a contract position, located in Aberdeen with occasional offshore trips.
ROLE
Responsible for the maintenance and assurance of Occupational Health and Operational Safety standards, systems, procedures, and tools to ensure regulatory compliance and consistent application across the company. Providing consistent and pragmatic Occupational Health and Operational Safety advice across company in line with company rules, regulations and good practice.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintenance and development of Occupational Health and Operational Safety standards, procedures, systems and tools, including the production of appropriate Level 1 and Level 2 procedures
• Support the implementation and maintenance of the Occupational Health and Operational Safety Compliance monitoring programme
• Development and implementation of Occupational Health and Operational Safety training
• Support workforce engagement, safety rep engagement, and safety culture development programmes
• Support and delivery of World Day For Safety and World Health Day initiatives
• Support to the HSE Awards
• Development, implementation and monitoring of behavioural safety and safety observation programmes
• Analysis of Occupational Health and Operational Safety trends to drive improvements
• Dashboard development for Occupational Health and Operational Safety KPIs
• Engagement with Asset HSE Teams and Onshore HSE Committee to understand and support their Occupational Health and Operational Safety requirements
• Project Occupational Health and Operational Safety support
• Preparation of Contractor Interface documents
• Preparation of emergency and bridging documents
• Development, implementation, maintenance and use of Occupational Health and Operational Safety specialist software
• Support Synergi governance and corporate Occupational Health and Operational Safety reporting requirements
• Provide support on Occupational Health monitoring to Medics
• Maintain a high awareness of industry and professional best practice through effective networking, professional organisations, journals, etc.
• Assist in the input of Occupational Health and Safety objectives into the annual HSE improvement plan
• Assist in the input of Occupational Health and Safety audits into the annual HSE audit plan through a risk based assessment looking at areas such as legal compliance and incident trends
• Responsible for providing the required support to assets during implementation of safety and occupational health plans and procedures. This support may require spending a period of time on the operational site during roll-out and implementation.
• Participate in onshore and offshore health & safety committees
• Conduct accident investigation/root cause analysis
• Assist in ensuring HSE applications are effectively implemented across COMPANY.
• Assist in the compilation of SIMOPS dossiers for simultaneous operations between Operations and Construction/Operations and Drilling, Siesmic and Operations
• Responsible for the HSE evaluation of contractors during the ITT process and the follow up of any recommendations made during the HSE evaluation
• Responsible for attending and providing the input to Contractor Performance review meetings
• Responsible for ensuring the quality of Synergi inputs and ensuring Synergi governance is adhered to
• Assist in communicating information relating to incidents across the business
• Monitor compliance with occupational health and hygiene standards across all assets (e.g. accommodation hygiene, potable water management, noise, handling of chemicals/COSHH, ergonomics, radioactive materials, health surveillance, management of hazardous substances e.g. mercury, benzene, etc.).
• Assure occupational health risk assessment files for each operational site are maintained
• Assist in developing health surveillance strategy for Company and Contractors so that records are kept of personnel exposure (e.g. noise, hand arm vibration, nightshift working etc.)
• Responsible for running reports and benchmarking safety and occupational health data to input into improvement plans

• Professional safety/occupational health qualification
• Previous relevant experience
• Capable of influencing the impact of emerging legislation and industry trends
• Representing the company at an industry level and leading/facilitating workgroups
• Good knowledge of UK onshore and offshore health & safety legislation, sufficient to offer good advice without reference, and be able to offer detailed advice through reference to documentation
• Thorough knowledge of company and group health & safety standards and procedures
• Trained to lead investigations of significant accidents/incidents
• Possess current Offshore Survival Certificate and valid medical