Your Scope

The scope of the Group Safety Manager is to promote a culture of safety within our organization and to ensure that employees and contractors can work in a safe and healthy environment. In this role, you report directly to the COO. You work in close collaboration with the Continuous improvement organization. Your liaison partners are the Health & Safety Managers from Ardo’s international local sites.  The accountability of this position is to improve and further develop and coordinate the group Health & Safety policy, for the field and factory with a clear focus on behavior. This means:

• Ensuring that the organization operates in a safe and compliant manner by identifying potential hazards, assessing risks, implementing measures to mitigate them, and creating and establishing policies and procedures for prevention.
• Providing safety training, workshops, and toolboxes to support the local Health & Safety managers Sharing best practices and knowledge is key, combined with a comprehensive communication plan. 
• Reporting on safety metrics and KPIs with the help of a safety performance dashboard. Creating efficiency and transparency by introducing a safety management system. This includes maintaining safety records, accident reports, safety audits, and employee training records.
• Supporting local H&S managers in safety inspections and audits, impacting behavior, implementing safety programs, and sharing best practices between sites.
• Optimizing the technical safety of all equipment, installations & operational areas (production, packing, logistics, agronomic…). Hereby working closely with the Engineering department.
• Supporting and driving well-being programs in close collaboration with other business stakeholders and teams. 
• Ensuring compliance with safety regulations by staying up to date to ensure that the organization is following all applicable laws and regulations, national and international.