Operational Safety Standards Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the operational safety element of the safety management system and ensure it is fully implemented to meet the continued needs of the business.
• Support production and maintenance of and compliance with the operations safety case and safety permit.
• Perform periodic reviews for local and international changes and developments in railway safety regulation, standards, technological specifications, research, or lessons learned. Advise the organisation and update the operational safety management system as required.
• Contribute railway safety regulations, technical specifications, and other operational safety requirements to the legal and other requirements register.
• Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of operational safety leading and lagging Key Performance Indicators.
• Provide technical guidance and support to line managers and supervisors in the production and implementation of risk assessments, processes, procedures, and safe systems of work to ensure that risks are controlled as low as reasonably practicable.
• Manage and maintain operational hazard logs, risk assessment, and other risk management activities to ensure they remain suitable and sufficient and support the CSMREA Workshops in preparation for safety certificate submission to the ISA for the approval of the regulator.
• Support line management and supervisors to ensure change is effectively and safely managed to minimise risk.
• Carry out periodic site inspections in accordance with compliance requirements, making sure they are conducted in and out of regular office hours, announced and unannounced.
• Ensure the competence of safety-critical personnel is being maintained as per the company’s competence management system requirements.
• Perform on-call duties, respond to and investigate operational safety incidents to identify underlying, root causes, and SMART actions to rectify any identified issues to prevent a recurrence and promote a just culture and continual improvement. Ensure the timely reporting of all statutory notifiable occurrences.
• Develop and deliver operational safety briefings, alerts, bulletins, and lessons learnt advisories as and when required
• Compile periodic operational safety performance reports as per reporting requirements.
• Contribute to the development and, where relevant, implementation of the annual HSEQ plan and annual HSEQ report in accordance with mandated requirements and timescales.