Superdrug
Health and Safety Advisor (South)
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🌟 Join Superdrug as a Health and Safety Adviser – Make a Real Difference Every Day! 🌟
đź“Ť Location: Field-based, covering the South of the UK. This role involves extensive travel, regular store visits, and occasional overnight stays.
🕒 Hours: 37.5 hours per week | Monday–Friday
đź’· Salary: Competitive
🎉 Why Superdrug?
Passionate about creating safe, healthy, and supportive workplaces? Want to be part of an innovative, fast-paced retailer where your expertise can make a genuine difference?
We’re a team that puts our customers and colleagues at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health and beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service, and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug Feeling.
📅 Here’s The Exciting Bit… A Day Includes
As our Health and Safety Adviser, you will support the Health and Safety Managers in ensuring that A.S. Watson businesses, including Superdrug, Savers, and The Perfume Shop, comply with our Health and Safety Policy, Group Health and Safety Standards, and relevant legislation.
Covering the South of the UK, you will promote a positive approach to workplace safety, fire risk management, accident prevention, and employee wellbeing. You will provide advice, training, and practical support across stores, distribution centres, and offices, helping teams maintain high standards and reduce workplace risks.
This is a varied, field-based role involving regular travel throughout the region, with occasional overnight stays.
đź“ť Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the business’s Health and Safety Policy, standards, and procedures are understood and followed.
- Support the Head of Department and Senior Health and Safety Managers in promoting a positive safety culture.
- Attend and represent the Health and Safety team at Area Manager and Health and Safety Committee meetings.
- Ensure store and area management teams understand the safety requirements relevant to their roles.
- Carry out proactive inspections and audits across stores, distribution centres, and offices.
- Investigate accidents and incidents, identify their causes, and recommend actions to prevent them from happening again.
- Share relevant incident information and data with the wider Health and Safety team.
- Deliver and support Health and Safety training programs, including on-site training.
- Build effective working relationships with regional, area, and store management teams.
- Liaise with the Health and Safety Executive, local authorities, fire authorities, and other relevant organizations.
- Remain up to date with current Health and Safety and fire safety legislation, codes of practice, and industry guidance.
- Complete building surveys relating to immediate Health and Safety risks when required.
- Support project, property, and facilities teams with project management, specifications, feasibility reports, and Health and Safety or fire-risk matters.
- Audit the competence of contractors and service providers and advise the business on the findings.
- Support store management in ensuring contractors have suitable and sufficient safe systems of work.
- Help maintain accurate data relating to accidents, occupational illness, RIDDOR, fire-risk assessments, and enforcement authority visits.
- Comply with all company policies, procedures, and instructions.
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👀 What We’re Looking For
- A full UK driving license and the willingness to travel regularly across the South, including occasional overnight stays.
- Up-to-date knowledge of current fire safety and general Health and Safety legislation.
- A recognized fire safety qualification.
- Proven experience in a general building role or a fire-risk assessment and auditing position.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the confidence to make informed decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
- The ability to present information clearly and tailor your communication to different audiences.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Strong data-entry and analytical skills.
- The confidence to understand, challenge, and adapt third-party IT systems used to support audit programs.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively as part of a wider team.
- Strong commercial awareness, enthusiasm, and self-motivation.
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It Would Be Desirable If You Also Have
- Experience within a fast-paced retail, travel, or hospitality environment.
- Experience conducting Health and Safety audits.
- A recognized Level 6 Health and Safety qualification, or be working towards one.
- A recognized UKAS-accredited asbestos management qualification.
- A recognized training qualification, such as PTLLS.
- A recognized construction management qualification.
💡 Here’s What’s In It For You
- 33 days’ holiday, rising to 38 days with length of service, inclusive of bank holidays.
- Two staff discount codes – one for you and one for a family member or friend.
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand products, both in store and online.
- Company pension matching and bonus.
- Access to Stream, a money-management app that allows you to access a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
- The opportunity to be part of something more! We work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop, and Three UK.
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, with more than 15,700 stores across 25 markets.
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programs.
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental, and adoption leave, company sick pay, and pregnancy-loss support.
Come and be part of something special!
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