Talent International is currently recruiting for a Health & Safety Advisor to work for a NSW Government client based in Sydney. The position is a 6-month contract role with the possibility of being extended and paying between $700 to $789.59/day + Super.

8 hours per day/40 hours per week (no overtime will be paid || Less than 6 hours will be a half day)

Primary purpose of the role

The primary purpose of the role is to provide a range of specialist and consulting services to support the development, implementation and maintenance of health and safety systems and governance to ensure the Ongoing compliance of the client with all relevant health and safety legislative, regulatory and incident response readiness requirements.

Key accountabilities

• Live the NSW Public Sector and organisational values to achieve outstanding outcomes for the organisation and customers
• Maintain the SM Safety Management Plans (SMP), standards and procedures to comply with relevant national and international standards, meet project and business objectives and ensure a secure, safe working Environment
• Support as required the Corporate Safety Representative for Rail Safety Worker (RSW) processes, including identification, competence assessment, fatigue and D&A processes to manage health and safety, training, competencies and certification for rail safety workers
• Provide health and safety consulting services, including specialist rail safety advice and support and evaluate the impact of new or proposed regulations and modify existing services or procedures as
• necessary to support compliance assurance and change control processes
• Develop and administer health and safety policies and procedures and ensure alignment with client's standards and policy
• Provide independent verification of health and safety and risk reports/assessments, where required, to identify significant safety concerns and ensure the consistent application of the relevant provisions of the
• project Safety Management System, verify the suitability of the methodology used, and validate the conclusions and recommendations made
• Provide specialised input to health and safety training requirements, including Safety Inductions and Core Safety Competencies to promote safe working practices across SM and provide hands-on training where appropriate, regarding the PSMP and other safety-related programs.
• Play a positive role in supporting the organisational safety culture, which involves promoting and demonstrating safe behaviours and practices, identifying continuous improvement opportunities, and reporting accidents and near misses to identify lessons learned and hazards and unsafe acts.

Essential requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
• Must have interpersonal skills
• Traveling to different sites (50%) - pool cars available. But ideally, someone that does have access to a vehicle to be able to get out to the project, there are limited transport options to a number of our sites.
• Must have a WHITE CARD.

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 02 8240 9596 / [email protected] for a confidential discussion.