Environmental Health & Safety Consultant - Datacenter - Outside IR35

Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) consultant

Desired qualifications and experience:

• Previous H&S data centre experience
• NEBOSH certificate or equivalent
• 5+ years H&S experience
• Experience with ISO45001

Day rate - Outside IR35

Role overview:

• Deliver a more efficient and standardised company-wide H&S processes and policies
• Eliminate regional silos by consolidating diverse occupational health plans into one unified, corporate standard.
• Develop, standardize, and implement a robust, fully auditable Health and Safety Management System aligned with ISO 45001 actions pending for implementation from previous audit requirements.
• The project will consolidate regional methodologies (UU, Finland and Iceland), establishing clear ownership structures, and deliver comprehensive risk assessments to our current library, Safe Systems of Work (SSoW), permit to work process and training programs, across all active operational and construction sites

Scope of work:

• ISO 45001 Alignment: Build and publish a comprehensive H&S Risk Register mapped directly to ISO 45001 and legal H&S requirements.
• Occupational Health & Surveillance: Design a structured business-wide health surveillance program and consolidate existing regional methodologies into a unified Occupational Health plan.
• Governance & Policy: Assist Head of H&S in the defining of the organizational H&S ownership structure. Revise existing safety policies to standardize minimum controls across the business.
• High-Risk Risk Assessments & SSoW: Develop and publish safety-critical procedures for (Not exhausted list):
• Lone Working & Winter Conditions Working.
• Working at Height (WAH) & Machine Guarding.
• Finalising Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards.
• Accessing electrical panels and Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO) procedures.
• Working with HV/LV systems
• Permit to work process
• Carry out general site risk assessments of active sites to establish required control

Training & Communications:

• Create supporting tools, templates, and training materials
• Training Matrix
• Training needs analysis
• Policy and procedures documentation
• Specific guidance on Dynamic Risk Assessments.
• Ensure a structured communications plan is in place to deploy these to the workforce.
• Develop toolbox talk template and process

Incident management:

• Deliver incident lessons learnt process

System Packaging: Package all the above into a cohesive, fully auditable program.