Health and Safety Manager - Core Research Facilities

About the role

The University of Bath is seeking a proactive and collaborative Health & Safety Manager to join our Core Research Facilities (CRF) team. Our Core Research Facilities provide world-class research and teaching infrastructure that supports hundreds of researchers, students and external partners across a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines. This role is central to ensuring that our laboratories and specialist facilities remain safe, compliant and accessible environments where cutting-edge research can thrive.

In this role you will

• Lead and champion a positive safety culture across our Core Research Facilities, driving continuous improvement and ensuring compliance with University and UK health and safety requirements.
• Work closely with researchers, technical specialists, academics and students to provide expert advice on risk assessment, safe systems of work, incident management and laboratory safety.
• Coordinate health and safety governance and compliance activities , including inspections, audits, committee meetings, training programmes and statutory requirements.
• Play a key role in supporting world-leading research , helping to create safe environments for work involving specialist equipment, hazardous chemicals, compressed gases, cryogens and other complex research activities.

About the Core Research Facilities

The Core Research Facilities bring together specialist laboratories, equipment and technical expertise that support research and teaching activities across multiple faculties at the University of Bath. The facilities enable innovative research in areas spanning engineering, physical sciences, chemical sciences and interdisciplinary research.

As our Health & Safety Manager, you will work at the heart of this environment, collaborating with Facility Leads, technical teams, researchers, Campus Infrastructure colleagues and the University's Safety, Health, Environment and Wellbeing (SHEW) team to ensure our facilities operate to the highest standards of safety and compliance.

For more information about the University's research facilities, visit:

What you'll be doing

You will be the focal point for health and safety matters across the Core Research Facilities, with responsibilities including:

Delivering and coordinating health and safety training and inductions.

Supporting the development and review of risk assessments and standard operating procedures.

Leading safety inspections and ensuring actions are implemented and tracked to completion.

Investigating incidents and near misses, identifying lessons learned and driving improvements.

Supporting compliance programmes, audits and contractor management.

Working with stakeholders across faculties to develop consistent and effective safety practices.

About you

We're looking for a confident and engaging health and safety professional who can build relationships, influence good practice and provide practical solutions within a complex technical environment.

You will have

A relevant degree, equivalent experience, or substantial experience in a related field.

A recognised health and safety qualification.

Experience promoting and implementing health and safety policies, procedures and compliance activities.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of audiences

Experience working within laboratory, scientific, technical or engineering environments.

Further information

This is a full time (36.5 hours per week) role.

For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Christy Waterfall at ***email_hidden***.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

Find out more about our benefits hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

Be Well at Bath

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Bath.

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Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting: We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.