Health and Safety Technician

Ensuring compliance with global standards of health, safety, and well-being for WERFEN companies in Spain and Portugal, where safety and wellbeing are prioritized.

Implementing risk management focused on health and psychosocial factors, always placing employee well-being at the forefront. Ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and occupational prevention requirements of WERFEN, with a focus on support and protection for all workers.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure safe workplaces and processes by integrating current regulations into working areas and business operations, providing support to the HS Manager.
• Implement programs to promote behavioral culture change, Health & Safety and Wellbeing strategies, and corporate guidelines.
• Implement and maintain an HS management system such as ISO 45001. Promote worker health following Werfen's policies, including planning and conducting internal and legal audits.
• Provide expert advice on health and safety issues to all stakeholders, especially those related to your specific area of responsibility.
• Review and implement Werfen's HS policies to ensure compliance with local and Portuguese legislative requirements. Provide relevant training and information to all employees based on their risk exposure.
• Measure key issues contributing to achieving desired results. Manage performance using leading and lagging indicators in health, safety, and wellbeing areas.
• Implement risk prevention measures and specific training plans, ensuring their completion.
• Investigate injuries and illnesses, evaluate preventive measures, and incident procedures. Monitor and report on absenteeism and workplace accidents, propose improvements, and track their implementation.
• Prepare proposals and conduct cost analyses for corrective actions based on incident investigations in the health and safety domain.

Networking / Key Relationships

This role requires collaboration with all organizational stakeholders, including external prevention services (SPA) and mutual insurance providers, to establish, maintain, and improve occupational health and safety compliance across the organization.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience

Additional Knowledge :

Languages : Spanish, Catalan, and English required; Portuguese is a plus.

Experience :

Extensive experience in health and safety, especially valuable within hospital or SPA sectors as a Technician in Labour Risk Prevention.

Skills & Capabilities :

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