Health and Safety Lead in Highbridge, Somerset

Health & Safety Lead

Somerset

£40,000 - £40,000

Abatec are recruiting for a Health & Safety Lead on behalf of an established manufacturing business.

This role will lead, develop and maintain the business’s health, safety and environmental management framework across four manufacturing facilities and site crews. You will ensure legal and regulatory compliance, drive continuous improvement and promote a proactive safety culture throughout the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee health, safety and working environment activities across four manufacturing facilities.

• Ensure compliance with UK health and safety legislation, HSE guidance, industry standards and insurance requirements, keeping policies, systems and documentation up to date.

• Develop, implement and regularly review risk assessments, Safe Systems of Work and site safety standards.

• Lead site safety meetings and work closely with factory managers and key stakeholders to maintain consistent standards and accountability.

• Analyse safety performance data, identify trends and implement corrective and preventative actions to deliver measurable improvements.

• Prepare management and board-level reports covering safety performance, trends, incidents and improvement actions.

• Manage accident, incident and near-miss reporting, ensuring thorough investigations, root cause analysis and timely completion of actions.

• Develop and maintain a structured safety action plan informed by audits, inspections and external requirements.

• Lead health and safety training, inductions and authorisation systems for employees, agency staff, contractors and visitors.

• Champion behavioural safety and continuous improvement, embedding a positive safety culture across the business.

• Collaborate with colleagues, supervisors and managers across all sites, undertaking reasonable additional duties in line with business needs.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• NEBOSH Diploma or an equivalent professional qualification.

• Proven experience in manufacturing or a similar high-risk environment, ideally across multiple sites.

• Demonstrable success in delivering sustainable behavioural safety improvements and cultural change.

• Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.

• Excellent communication, engagement and influencing skills at operational and senior management levels.

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, performance data and multiple sites effectively.

• Confident user of Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Desirable

• Chartered Membership of IOSH (CMIOSH), or working towards it.

• A degree-level qualification in health and safety, environmental management or a related discipline.

To find out more about this opportunity, please contact Abatec.