Job Description:
Provide strategic leadership for the implementation and continuous improvement of the Work Safe Home Safe Strategy, ensuring alignment with Gas Networks Ireland’s organisational goals. Develop, lead and deliver the Annual Safety Culture Plan and the Five Year Safety Culture Programmes of Work, driving sustained behavioural based safety improvements. Demonstrate strong safety leadership throughout the organisation, coaching future safety leaders, collaborating with all company departments, including attendance at company all-hands, pillar off-sites etc. Sustain three Work Safe Home Safe Committees, covering Assets and Infrastructure, Network Operations, and Safe Place of Work, through management of initiatives and coordination of safety moments, meetings, action items, etc. Develop, lead and deliver Work Safe Home Safe training and awareness programmes. Work with leaders at all levels of the business to integrate safety culture principles into business planning, decision-making, and daily operations. Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and other engagement activities to gather input and build ownership for safety initiatives. Facilitate Work Safe Home Safe events, including theatre-based learning, safety awareness campaigns and initiatives to engage employees. Monitor, analyse, and report on safety culture metrics, using data to inform continuous improvement efforts. Conduct safety culture surveys as required, collect and analyse associated data to identify trends and areas for improvement. Recommend corrective actions. Own the Safety Communications Annual Plan, promoting clear and effective monthly safety communication across all levels of the organisation. Develop and implement recognition and reward programmes, acknowledging safe behaviour. Monitor and measure safety culture and ensuring that safety culture arrangements are effective at minimising risk and delivering the expectations of GNI management and stakeholders. Perform other duties as required from time to time.
