To provide advice, support and guidance on all aspects of Health & Safety and the Environmental activities throughout the Selwood Housing Group to enable compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental legislation, current good practice and safe methods of work in all matters of the Group’s business

Francaster House Ltd are an independent, health & safety practitioner consultancy who are passionate in preventing harm, loss and damage to people and their businesses. In an ever-changing world it can be hard for companies to keep up to date and be compliant with legal legislative duties and responsibilities. The services that I have conduct for Francaster House amongst others include site safety inspections reports and action plans, risk assessment development and maintenance, including general, DSE, COSHH and others, audit of health & safety management system, policy development, accident/incident investigation, corporate and staff training including IOSH managing, working safely, and working at height training, health & safety advice, fit testing. The industries that I have undertaken work for include schools & colleges, training companies, manufacturing, leisure, waste, health and social care providers, housing repairs, vehicle workshops, local authorities, and the NHS.

Drive a safety improvement culture, ensuring all employees are engaged and participative in this process. Build relationships at all levels of the organisation, coach and advise all employees on the behaviours and actions necessary for a strong safety culture within the organisation. Support the site leadership team in developing the annual HSE Plan and ensure objectives and targets are monitored monthly. Deliver technical HSE training, informing all levels of the organisation of their HSER roles and responsibilities, and developing the competency of the organisation to deliver. Support and coach all levels of the organisation in delivering the HSE objectives and targets. Monitor and report HSE key performance indicators. Act as the Management Representative for the HSE management systems, providing the site leadership team with an overview of the health of the system and key actions needed for improvement and compliance. Manage the internal and external audit schedule for the site's management systems, involving competent members of the organisation in the process. Lead the completion and maintenance of technical risk assessments such as PUWER and COSHH. Act as the point of contact for HSE communications with external organisations such as regulators and insurers. Ensuring ISO standards (ISO 450001,140001, 500001) are maintained.

Assist the Director of quality & EHS in setting, implementing and maintaining UK wide EHS Policy, Strategy and statutory/legal compliance, including ISO 14001,45001 & 50001. Responsible for assisting all UK rail sites set their policies and strategies in line with Knorr Bremse Group and legal compliance requirements. Manage the EHS Advisor (MLK) and EHS Student placement. Work closely with all departments at all UK Rail Sites to champion the safe and legally compliant running of the sites. Ensure the establishment of effective structures and systems for the management of health and safety and development of the appropriate culture and behaviours for the UK. Oversee information systems, management tools and databases to ensure that KBRS UK can measure effectiveness, plan priorities and identify significant organizational risks, trends and issues. Maintain oversight of external SHE accreditation for all UK rail sites. Liaise and co-ordinate activity with the regulatory agencies as required, ensuring legal compliance. Continuously review/audit the arrangements for health and safety, recommend and implement changes/improvements as required.

To meet with managers and use professional and technical judgement to set, agree, monitor standards and targets to reduce the risk burden. To design and manage a programme of actions for each directorate to engage with the goal of reducing local risk burdens. This involves the analysis of data, coupled with the evaluation of other evidence gathered through technical audits to produce strategic and operationally viable recommendations. To devise, develop and implement the tools to enable managers to comply. Such tools may be new guidance, training, monitoring processes, documentation and face to face advice. To advise managers on statutory requirements, good practice and Council and departmental procedures and policies related to health and safety. To carry out a programme of inspection of workplaces and practices and to produce reports making recommendations and innovative solutions. To devise and deliver face to face training, toolbox talks to all levels of employees. To monitor and investigate work related accidents, incidents and near misses and to liaise with HSE and other external bodies, as appropriate. To undertake or participate in special projects and to produce reports accordingly. Working with the FM team to address areas of concern within the organisations portfolio, supporting the team with the management of risk within their working area which includes confined space working, cleaning of bio mass boilers, fit testing of masks, minor repair work, tender reviews, fire, asbestos and legionella management etc. Areas of responsibility include residential accommodation for adults, children and families, schools, colleagues, housing including repairs, leisure centres, waste, highways and traveller sites. Auditing Aspire Defence FM team who are contracted by the MOD to at a leisure centre which is managed by Wiltshire Council. To deputise for the Head of Service as necessary.

Develop and implementation of a programme of planned health & safety inspections. Review to ensure that properties occupied are compliant with health & safety legislation.Identify gaps in corporate policy, draft policies, review, undertake consultation and gain ratification of health & safety policies.Lead in the assessment and advice to staff regarding workstation safety, including, undertake assessments as requested, advising and assessing need for equipment and improvements under the employees duty to make reasonable adjustments, purchasing larger office equipment for staff in need.Support the all managers to ensure that their workplace is safe, to ensure that they have sufficient evidence for compliance with CQC Regulation.Assist managers with risk assessments at all levels, advise managers regarding grading of risks and the risk register process.Lead in the coordination of dissemination and actions relating to nationally issued safety alerts as the nominated Central Alerting System liaison officer.Be a member of the Health & Safety Group, providing relevant papers and writing reports as required.Lead on the planning, and Chair the Moving & Handling Advisory Group including setting agendas, highlighting risks to the group and overseeing the work of the group.Responsibility for the adverse event reporting process, monitor the electronic system and merge incidents from the web holding file to the live database.Determine whether adverse events are externally reportable and report these to external bodies e.g. the Health and Safety Executive or the Clinical Commissioning Group.Support the Training Team to plan health and safety training to ensure that the correct levels and types of training are provided to staff. Prepare, present and update training sessions as part of the mandatory training programme. Topics to include: health and safety, risk assessment, office safety, lone working and adverse event reporting.

Provide professional Risk & Safety management advice and support throughout the organisation. Support and engage departments and staff through the risk assessment processes. To work with management to implement risk management processes to control and mitigate risks, particularly the development and management of local Risk Registers. Ensuring that risks are captured within the risk registers. Undertake and support investigations into incidents using Root Cause Analysis methodology. Undertake projects for example the implementation of the lone worker system throughout the Organisation. Devise and deliver structured Risk management, Health & Safety including back care, COSHH and Conflict Resolution training. Fire, Health and Safety audits and inspections, reports, advice and guidance. Attending meetings for example Governance and Risk (GRC) and Health and Safety Committees. Analyse incidents and trends using Datix and the production of reports on incidents, safety alerts, claims and the Risk Register for Board, GRC and Health and Safety Committee. The development of policies and procedures. Reviewing tender documents and the submission of tender documents.