Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Apprentice

Kick-start your HSE career and play a key role where you can make a real impact. We’re looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to work in our HSE department to help create safer workplaces, drive continuous improvement, and support a culture of excellence across our operations.

In this role, you will play a vital part in ensuring that our operations meet all health, safety, and environmental compliance requirements. You will work closely with various departments to promote a culture of safety and environmental stewardship across the company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain effective health, safety, and environmental management systems in line with current legislation and company policies
• Conduct risk assessments, safety inspections, and audits to identify potential hazards and ensure compliance
• Provide advice, guidance, and training to employees to promote safe working practices
• Investigate accidents, incidents, and near misses, and lead actions to prevent recurrence
• Follow, develop and implement environmental initiatives to minimize the company’s environmental impact
• Prepare and maintain accurate records and reports related to HSE activities
• Promote a positive safety culture and continuous improvement within the organisation

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

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