Hse Advisor

**Job no**: 533255
**Work type**: Full Time
**Location**: Sydney, NSW
**Categories**: Risk & Safety
- **One of Australia's leading research & teaching universities**:

- **Vibrant campus life with a strong sense of community & inclusion**:

- **Enjoy a career that makes a difference by collaborating & learning from the best**

**At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work.**

The School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) is one of the largest and most prestigious schools of scientific research and teaching in Australia. We encompass the disciplines of genomics and bioinformatics, microbiology and microbiomes, and molecular and cell biology, with specialist areas in gene regulation, systems biology, neurogenomics, microbes in health and disease, microbes in the environment, metabolism and metabolic disorders and synthetic biology.

The School of BABS has over 70 academic and professional staff and over 150 research-based students. The Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Advisor provides high level, effective and efficient health and safety compliance and auditing support to the school.

The HSE Advisor will assist the school with the implementation of health, safety and environment management systems and ensures that processes align with the requirements of UNSW. The position provides practical solutions to ensure the school complies with all applicable health and safety legislation to minimise risks and prevent injuries in the workplace. The position plays a lead role in developing and fostering a positive health and safety culture within the school. The HSE Advisor works closely with stakeholders across the School, Health and Safety Consultation Committee Chairpersons and the Faculty Safety Business Partner to ensure health, safety and environment compliance across a broad and complex range of research and teaching activities in offices, classrooms, laboratories, and stores.

The HSE Advisor will advise and support the Head of School in fulfilling their health and safety responsibilities.

**About the role**
- **Level 6/7 ($100k - $119k)**plus 17% Superannuation and annual leave loading
- Continuing
- Full-time (35 hours per week)

The role reports to the School Manager with a dotted reporting line to the Faculty Safety Business Partner and has no direct reports. This position is expected to work collaboratively with Laboratory Managers and Technical Officers.

**Specific responsibilities for this role include**:
**LEVEL 6**:

- Lead and monitor the implementation of UNSW's Health, Safety and Environment policies, procedures and guidelines within the school and liaise with relevant staff regarding compliance, solutions and implementation issues.
- Implement the School's Health, Safety and Environment Management System, reviewing it regularly, keeping it up to date with UNSW's requirements and effectively consulting and communicating with School stakeholders on any changes.
- Provide administrative management and support to users of electronic health, safety and environment systems used within the school (for example, WHS Monitor, UNSW SafeSys, Jaggaer, ACLS, PiMS, ChemAlert).
- Provide administrative support to the school in preparation for any health, safety, and environment audit.
- Monitor School's fieldwork activities and provide guidance to staff and students in supplying correct health, safety and environment information required for such activities.
- Monitor and follow-up completion of health, safety and environment induction and training.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure that health, safety and environment issues are reported, and corrective actions are addressed and closed off in a timely manner.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure that hazards are identified, and reasonably practicable risk management is carried out.
- Monitor and follow-up inspection, testing and monitoring schedule for plant and equipment.
- Monitor and support management of health, safety and environment records held by the school (for example, inductions, training, maintenance records, biological register, chemical register).
- Assist in the creation of School health, safety and environment protocols, as the need arises.
- Schedule and conduct regular inspections of the school's workplaces to ensure compliance with appropriate legislation, policies and procedures.
- Attend the School's Health, Safety and Environment Consultation Committee (Level 3) and provide timely statistical reports, analysis, and advice to the committee.
- Generate safety and training reports from UNSW Health, Safety and Environment electronic management systems (such as PiMS, SiMS, SafeSys, WHS Monitor, Jaggaer).
- Be Chief Warden of the area Emergency Control Organisation and contribute toward emergency management.
- Provide inductions, training and presentations related to health, safety and environment to staff and students, as required.
- Coordinate incident investigations in co