Manufacturing Health and Safety Officer Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Inspect manufacturing activities and controls.
• Support risk assessments permits and safe systems.
• Investigate incidents and track corrective actions.
• Coordinate safety training and consultation.
• Report serious or repeated control failures.

A realistic working scenario

You schedule and allocate daily H&S checks across shifts, complete PPE and risk assessment entries in the incident logs and production planning system, stop work for unsafe equipment, raise a quality hold for a suspected defect, and notify the production or operations manager and quality team for urgent escalation.

Outputs to agree

• Daily risk assessment and PPE check entries in the incident logs and production planning system.
• Site safety briefings and shift handover notes recording outstanding actions and controls.
• Quality hold notifications and escalation emails to production or operations manager and the quality team.
• Completed incident investigation summaries and corrective action follow-ups.
• Periodic training completion updates in the training system.

Records and evidence

• Risk assessment records in the risk registers and production planning system.
• Incident logs and investigation reports for near-misses and accidents.
• Equipment, quality and maintenance records for machinery and safety-critical assets.
• PPE issue and inspection records.
• Training system records showing competency and refresher dates.
• Work records.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• You may stop work, impose local safety controls and place a quality hold on product or equipment pending investigation. For removal of a quality hold, restart of production after a safety stop, major maintenance approval or regulatory disclosure, you must obtain approval from the production or operations manager and notify the quality team and, where required, inspectors or auditors.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Risk registers.
• Training systems.
• Risk assessment records.

Workplace context

• Production, workshop, site or field locations.

Training and certification

• Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

• Plan and allocate H&S checks and shift handovers to protect people and product.
• Complete accurate entries in risk registers, incident logs and equipment records after checks or events.
• Raise quality holds, safety stops and escalate defects, unsafe equipment or traceability failures promptly.
• Maintain PPE, training and inspection records in the training system and production planning system.
• Use company systems and property only for authorised H&S work and report suspected data or record loss immediately.

Information the employer should prepare

• the sites processes and hazard profile
• the required competence and professional support
• the inspection investigation and audit remit
• the stop-work and escalation authority
• the committee reporting and record systems