The Health and Safety Apprentice

The Health and Safety Apprentice will support the Health, Safety and Compliance team with legal, regulatory and operational health and safety responsibilities. You will gain practical experience across a range of safety disciplines while working towards a recognised Health and Safety qualification.

What you'll do at work

• Help coordinate safety inspections, audits and assurance activities.
• Assist with tracking and completing corrective actions arising from audits, inspections and investigations.
• Assist with maintaining colleague safety and property compliance records and documentation.
• Support compliance teams in monitoring risk assessment actions through to completion.
• Participate in and support safety initiatives, campaigns and awareness activities.
• Support the administration and investigation of accidents, incidents and near-miss reporting processes.
• Support regulatory compliance activities and data collection relating to the operation of heat networks.
• Build positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Attend apprenticeship training and complete all required coursework and assessments.
• Undertake other reasonable duties appropriate to the role and level of responsibility.

Training provider

QDOS TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Safety, health and environment technician (level 3)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Present and hold an audience's attention, for example when delivering SHE training, toolbox talks, inductions or presenting data or investigation findings to the workforce or management team. Show they can sell the SHE message, have personal impact, deal with challenge, reflect on personal performance, use appropriate language for the audience.
• Assist the management team in the development, management, implementation and monitoring of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management System by updating systems in line with changes in legislation or best practice, delivering training, coaching operational teams and undertaking workplace inspections.
• Provide advice on the practical implementation of the company's SHE policies and processes applying generic industry guidance into the context of the workplace.
• Identify the hazards and evaluate: workplace instructions that are relevant to the individual's job; working practices in the individual's job that may harm themselves or others’; aspects of the individual's job that could harm themselves or others; which of the potentially harmful working practices and aspects of the individual's work present the highest risks to themselves or others; how to deal with hazards in accordance with workplace instructions and legal requirements.
• Support the practical application of the workplace instructions and suppliers or manufacturers instructions for the safe use of equipment, materials and products.
• Support and assist in the implementation of SHE inspections and monitoring systems demonstrating the balance between enforcement and internal support.
• Undertake and/or assist with the monitoring, analysis of and reporting of SHE performance.
• Prepare and maintain records relating to safety, health and environmental matters that comply with legal and workplace requirements and are accessible to those who are authorised to use them. E.g. records associated with Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations, Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations, Noise at Work Regulations, Hand Arm Vibration Regulations or Environmental Permitting Regulations.
• Assist the management team in establishing, managing and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders such as local authorities, Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Occupational Health, Occupational Hygienists and others as required and directed.
• Research Safety, Health and Environmental Issues and best practices. Review updates of health and safety regulations e.g. changes to Construction, Design and Management Regulations or updates to the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health along with workplace instructions, making sure that information is from reliable sources.
• Assist and/or manage the investigation of accidents, incidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses and other incidents as directed.
• Recognise where decisions have a financial cost and assisting to develop a budget.
• Recognise situations where the activity will benefit from contributions and expertise of other internal departments such as HR, Finance, IT or Occupational Health.