Health & Safety Business Partner

A quick look at the role

Biffa’s vision is to be an industry leader where people are, and feel safer, together and it’s the mission of the Health & Safety team to help the business continually reduce the likelihood and severity of workplace harm. Your role is to provide professional Health & Safety guidance, advice, and support to the business, working closely with senior stakeholders in a proactive and collaborative way to help reach the vision and achieve the mission. You will be responsible for a nominated division and region within the business.

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Your core responsibilities

• Partner with the Business to collaboratively deliver the vision, mission, and balanced business plan for Health & Safety
• Provide expert advice to help the business implement effective H&S risk controls
• Use specialist knowledge and understanding of risk profiles to assure internal stakeholders
• Impart specialist H&S knowledge to others through education, communication, and training
• Partner with Site Leads to develop and implement H&S improvement plans
• Advocate organisational learning by using the TopSet methodology for root cause analysis for incident investigations
• Collate and interpret data to provide detailed and accurate insight to operational colleagues, that they can act upon, to help the business continually reduce the likelihood and severity of workplace harm
• Keep updated on H&S legislation and upkeep expert knowledge through selfdriven continuous professional development

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  Our essential requirements

  • A recognised NEBOSH qualification and professional status
  • 3 years’ experience in a demonstrably similar role.
  • Structured approach to applying functional expertiseadvice to support the business
  • Ability to link H&S solutions to business benefits and results
  • Collaborative with the confidence to challenge and influence operational colleagues

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