Safety First Lead - Finsbury Circus House, London

Purpose of the Role

To be the senior point of contact between The Crown Estate and Savills, responsible for ensuring that a consistent approach to Health & Safety is implemented across all Savills managed properties in line with The Crown Estates safety first agenda whilst implementing Savills Safety+ processes and procedures. The Safety First Lead’s key function will be the continuation and ongoing development and implementation of robust Health & Safety objectives which will be bespoke to The Crown Estates Regional Portfolio, dovetailed with other risk areas including, but not limited to, security and emergency resilience planning.

Key Responsibilities

Culture

• Continual liaison with TCE and Savills senior stakeholders on risk management matters
• Being central to the development of The Crown Estates strategic objectives and areas of focus in terms of risk.
• Leading the communication strategy between all parties, internally, within the Crown Estate and site level stakeholders and updating regularly on portfolio wide initiatives, best practice and focus areas.
• Ensuring that a structured programme of information, instruction, training and reporting is in place that follows the Safety+ processes already in place to ensure that a Generative Safety First Culture is embedded in all team members.

Operational Tasks

• Line management of the Safety First Team in the delivery of H&S support, advisory functions and reporting across the TCE Portfolio.
• Senior level engagement with other risk area leads to ensure of a joined up approach to strategic risk management.
• Main point of client contact to our team of external third party consultants for the delivery of Risk Assessments and other consultancy services across TCE Estates
• Ensuring through robust management systems that all identified action points are cleared down in a suitable time period and in line with KPI’s
• Ensuring all properties have a structured Planned Preventative Maintenance plan in place that covers all inherent risk areas and that this is used on a day to day basis to ensure high standards are achieved and maintained.
• Strategically plan and implement Health & Safety led initiatives as required to constantly evolve and improve safety standards at all properties.
• Ensure a programme of audit and inspections is in place that can be conducted by the Safety First team. This programme will ensure adherence to Safety+ processes, procedures and training requirements. The Safety First team should be visible to the site teams.
• Work closely with Savills Safety+ Team to benchmark and benefit from best practice which can be used across the Regional assets and portfolio and to achieve consistency across all workstreams.
• Develop and apply continual improvement at all times
• Ensure regular reporting in line with client requirements is produced on time and to a satisfactory standard.

Financial

• Have a detailed understanding of financial factors impacting on The Crown Estates safety first regime.
• Work with all site budget holders to ensure that due consideration has been given to the required level of safety management matters in annual service charge budget setting
• Advise on the cost / benefit of additional safety measures
• Hold and manage a central Safety First budget (at a level agreed with the client) aimed at improving standards across all areas.

Incident Management

• To take Silver and/or Gold Command Control of major incidents across the TCE portfolio controlled by Savills
• To support sites dealing with routing incidents and lead on significant investigations
• Take the lead on deciding whether incidents are reportable under RIDDOR and ensure a timely submission in line with legal requirements
• Ensure incidents, near misses and accidents are analysed so that trends can be identified to improve overall process, policy, procedure or training requirements
• Ensure communication channels remain open with TCE by providing timely updates on the incident, immediate actions taken and outcomes of investigations.

Board / Committee Responsibilities

• TCE QLM (member)
• Savills Retail & Leisure Working Group (member)
• Savills Senior Operational Risk Committee (member)

Direct Reports

• Safety First Manager
• Safety First Coordinator

Individual Performance Evaluation Criteria

• Hold strong client relationships with TCE
• Maintain Safety+ standards throughout the TCE portfolio
• Maintain strong communication channels with TCE on key risk items such as incident management or action findings
• Ensure Safety First visibility at a site level
• Evidence that progress has been made in raising your profile across Savills teams outside of TCE. Enabling a greater understanding of where to obtain support from the wider business and have improved connectivity between the various Savills teams.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• An experienced H&S Leader with a background in property audit and compliance
• Strong Operational Health & Safety knowledge backed by suitable qualifications and career experience
• Interest or experience in a variety of property sectors
• Knowledge of all aspects of property risk including Health & Safety, Environmental and Security
• Strong reporting and report writing skills

Working Hours - 9.00-5.30 Monday to Friday 

The position will be centrally based with national travel.

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Please see our Benefits Booklet for more information.