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Safety Risk Advisor - Birmingham [02/01/2010] |
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• Network Services (NS) is a directorate within the Highways Agency (HA) responsible for providing technical expertise and specialist advice to the HA, Department of Transport (DfT), operators, contractors and designers.
The Safe Roads & Casualty Reduction Group provides assurance, direction and leadership on a variety of safety and risk related matters for the Highways Agency. You would be involved in determining policy relating to the safety risk management of highway projects, the development and use of new tools and feeding into the Agency's Safety Management System. Your advice and guidance will be valued and you will be making a difference at the highest level ensuring best value for the Agency whilst maintaining safety standards and technical governance. Vacancy description Other responisbilites will include
• ensuring that the Highways Agency’s (HA) approaches to safety risk analysis, safety risk assessment and safety risk management affecting the strategic road network are appropriate, fit for purpose and aligned.
• To monitor and keep abreast of best practice in safety risk management practice across other sectors and act as a champion of best practice in safety risk management within the HA.
• Providing mentoring and preceptorship to other HA safety specialists on safety risk analysis, assessment and management. Skills • Monitoring the adequacy of the HA’s overall approach to safety risk management, co-ordinating approaches across different disciplines (e.g. road user safety and worker safety) and advising on necessary improvements e.g. to address gaps and inconsistencies.
• Maintaining and developing detailed policy for road user safety risk management.
• Providing in-house specialist safety risk advice to inform strategic decision making and the development of operational procedures and risk tools and driving improvements in these areas where necessary.
• Developing and maintaining the HA’s strategic risk tools (including the safety risk model and national hazard log). Provide outputs from these tools to inform strategic reporting and investment decisions.
• Focal point for review and approval of new initiatives with safety risk implications (involving occupational health and safety and road user safety specialists, as necessary).
• Monitor legal requirements and best practice in safety risk management and provide advice to the business.
• Co-ordinating other risk specialists within the business (e.g. project risk, business risk) to ensure a consistent and joined-up approach to risk management within the HA. Also ensuring that operational safety risk is appropriately represented on the corporate risk register.
• Providing mentoring and coaching in safety risk to other HA safety specialists (as required). Main Contacts:
Network Services Director, National Health and Safety Team, Network Operations, Managed Motorways Key Considerations:
Travel to other locations is required and is likely to result in some overnight stays away from home and occasional overseas travel.
Essential Requirements: Qualifications and Experience Qualifications • Extensive experience in safety risk management.
• Development of strategic approaches to safety risk management.
• Experience of performing a broad range of safety risk analysis and assessment techniques e.g. fault and event tree analysis, HAZOP, FMEA, QRA, etc.
• Experience of using software in relation to safety risk analysis.
• Experience of the deriving of safety risk parameters to inform risk assessments.
• Experience of applying safety case arguments in a regulated environment. Experience PSG Core: Leadership PSG Core: Programme and Project Management PSG Policy: Partnership Working and Stakeholder Management PSG Policy: Policy Delivery PSG Core: Financial and Resource Management PSG Policy: Sector Knowledge Permanent Location: Sri Lanka Northern Province - Chavakachcheri
Salary: 44 Date available: now Specialist Industry: Highways Agency Company: UK Civil Service Company Description: The Civil Service helps the Government of the day to develop and deliver its policies as effectively as possible.
The Civil Service incorporates three types of organisations departments, agencies, and non-departmental government bodies (NDPBs). We work in a wide range of areas that touch on everyones day-to-day lives, such as education, health and policing.
Because our organisations deal with so many different aspects of government, civil servants work in an enormous variety of roles. We employ 497,000 civil servants, almost three-quarters of whom work outside London and the South-East.
Civil servants are politically impartial. Our workforce includes people who deliver crucial services direct to the public across the UK, such as Jobcentre Plus staff and coastguards. We also have staff working on policy development and implementation, including analysts, project managers, lawyers and economists. Company Website: [n/a]
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