Health & Safety Manager

Responsibilities

• Alerts management of emergencies, investigation of the emergencies, root cause analysis and solutions to prevent emergency recurrence.
• Hold/attend safety meetings as a pillar member of various cross functional safety teams - virtually and face to face.
• Remains current to applicable OSHA and other governing global programs.
• Assist health and safety regulators in carrying out checks/audits.
• Monitor existing and new legislation/regulations on health and safety in order to ensure that Nielsen is current and complies with requirements.
• Establishing, implementing and maintaining health and safety standards, goals, and policies.
• Act as the H&S regulatory resource in collaboration for Nielsen.
• Provide guidance and oversight of H&S record keeping.
• Ensures Nielsen is legally compliant with global health and safety legislation.
• Assess, analyze and mitigate associated risk(s) with offices, warehouses, operations, field and work practices.
• Develop and/or review minimum health and safety standards for compliance by Nielsen staff. 
• Prepare and enforce H&S policies to establish a positive culture of health and safety.
• Provide compliance assurance, audits, with Nielsen and regulatory requirements regarding global environmental health and safety.
• Duties include corroboration of recordable, near-miss, and critical situation(s).
• Duties include record keeping of each recordable, near-miss, and critical situation(s)
• Provide for H&S performance data metrics for H&S performance dashboard.
• Participate in job risk assessments to ensure safe working procedures.
• Drive implementation of H&S initiatives regarding contractor management on high-risk activities such as Confined Space Entry, Electrical Safety, LO/TO, Elevated Work and general construction.
Tasks:
• Enforce machines and equipment are in safe working order and signed off.
• Ensures the maintenance of stocked first aid.
• Ensures Nielsen sites/offices are free from hazardous substances/materials or stored as per regulation.
• Assure fire drills are conducted for Nielsen employees, consultants and guests.
• Ensures forklifts are inspected, training is conducted, battery stations have working eyewash stations.
• Ensures cradle to grave recycling of batteries - forklifts, UPS, …
• Develop and execute H&S plans in the workplace according to Nielsen, compliance and legal guidelines.
• Conduct training, safety meetings, audits, and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective action and implement follow up assessments.
• Inspect equipment and machinery to observe possible unsafe conditions
• Investigate accidents/ incidents for root causes to support worker’s compensation claims
• Recommend solutions to issues, improvement opportunities or new prevention measures
• Report on health and safety awareness, issues and statistics
• Provide project management H&S oversight.
• Assess and identify appropriate resources and equipment necessary to support H&S objectives.
• H&S contact person for contractors and Nielsen permits.
• Complies with cradle to grave battery cycling. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Practical working knowledge of Health and Safety tools and techniques, ideally within Facilities and Project Management.
• Ability to communicate H&S information, both orally and/or in writing Success as a leader working with employees, management, contractors/vendors supporting mutual safety objectives.
• Proven track record of success executing high hazard prevention programs; specifically: LO/TO, electrical safety, confined space entry and elevated work/fall protection.
• A proven track record managing regula