Group Health & Safety Officer

Make the extraordinary, everlasting - with us.

At EC, we create extraordinary experiences in complex, fast-paced environments - and safety underpins everything we do. As Group Health & Safety Officer, you'll take ownership of how we embed consistent, practical and robust safety standards across the business, ensuring that our people, partners and clients are protected at every stage.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role focused on creating rigour, consistency and accountability across our London operations, our South Bermondsey facility, and global event delivery.

About the Role

The Group Health & Safety Officer is responsible for leading EC's health & safety agenda across the organisation - from our South Bermondsey facility through to live events in London and internationally.

You will take a practical, delivery-focused approach to ensuring safety standards are consistently applied, understood and embedded. Working closely with operational teams, you will translate policy into action - bringing structure, clarity and accountability to how safety is managed in real-world environments.

You will collaborate closely with the Group Compliance Manager, particularly in areas of shared responsibility such as ISO standards (including ISO 45001), audits and broader compliance frameworks, ensuring a joined-up and effective approach across the business.

Who you are

• You are a CMIOSH status
• You bring strong experience in health & safety within operational, production or event-led environments
• You are practical and delivery-focused - able to translate policy into real-world application
• You are confident working across multiple environments, from facilities to live events
• You build trust quickly and influence effectively across teams
• You are highly organised, detail-oriented and proactive in identifying and mitigating risk
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving business

Experience & qualifications

• Relevant H&S qualification (e.g. NEBOSH, CMIOSH) - this is non-negotiable
• Proven experience in a Health & Safety role (events, production, logistics or similar environments preferred)
• Strong understanding of UK H&S legislation and best practice
• Experience with risk assessments and safe systems of work
• Experience with audits and compliance standards (ISO 45001 experience advantageous)

Key responsibilities Health & Safety Leadership & Delivery

• Own and embed health & safety practices across all business areas, including events, production and facilities
• Ensure consistent application of H&S standards across UK and international operations
• Act as the go-to expert, providing practical guidance that supports safe and effective delivery
• Provide timely and accurate health & safety information to support tender submissions and RFP responses, ensuring all requirements are clearly addressed and aligned with best practice
• Own and manage relationships with external health & safety partners and suppliers, leveraging their expertise to provide robust training, guidance and independent challenge to continuously strengthen EC's safety standards

Operational Safety & Events

• Oversee health & safety across all live event activity, ensuring appropriate risk assessments and safe working practices are in place
• Partner with project and production teams to ensure safety is embedded into planning and execution
• Support safe delivery in complex, fast-moving environments
• Be an approachable, trusted partner for teams - creating an environment where people feel confident to ask questions, seek guidance and collaboratively find practical, safe solutions
• Ensuring appropriate risk assessments and safe working practices are in place - supported by high-quality, practical RAMS through HandsHQ

Facilities & Workplace Safety

• Collaborate with our Internal Operations Manager on H&S for the South Bermondsey facility, ensuring safe systems of work are in place and maintained
• Partner closely with the Internal Operations Manager and Scenic, Technical and Floral teams to ensure safe systems of work are embedded within workshop and build environments, including equipment use, materials handling and fabrication processes
• Conduct regular inspections, audits and reviews to ensure ongoing compliance and improvement
• Ensure workplace environments support safe, efficient operations

Standards, Systems & Governance

• Own and continuously evolve EC's Health & Safety Manual, ensuring it is clear, practical and consistently applied across all areas of the business
• Lead the Health & Safety Committee, setting agenda, driving accountability and ensuring actions are followed through
• Own and develop HandsHQ (RAMS platform) as the central system for risk assessments, ensuring it is accurate, embedded and widely adopted across teams
• Drive consistency and quality in RAMS, ensuring they are practical, proportionate and support safe delivery across all environments
• Support and drive compliance with relevant standards, including ISO 45001
• Partner with the Compliance Manager on audits, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives
• Identify gaps, risks and opportunities to strengthen safety performance across the business

International Health & Safety

• Establish a clear and practical approach to health & safety in international environments, ensuring standards are applied consistently while adapting to local requirements
• Provide guidance and oversight on international event delivery, ensuring risks are understood and managed appropriately
• Advise teams on travel-related health & safety, including risk awareness, preparation and safe working practices overseas
• Support the development of international ESP's, ensuring they are robust, locally appropriate and enable safe execution

Construction Design & Management (CDM)

• Lead EC's approach to CDM compliance, ensuring appropriate application of regulations across scenic builds, temporary structures and event installations
• Advise on duty holder responsibilities (Client, Principal Designer, Principal Contractor), ensuring roles and accountabilities are clearly defined on relevant projects
• Support project teams during planning and pre-construction phases, ensuring risks are identified, mitigated and documented appropriately
• Ensure effective coordination and communication with contractors, freelancers and suppliers to maintain safe systems of work
• Oversee the integration of CDM requirements into RAMS, project planning and site delivery, ensuring compliance is practical and embedded
• Provide guidance to internal teams to ensure design decisions consider safety throughout the lifecycle (build, install, live event and de-rig)

Training, Engagement & Culture

• Build awareness and capability across teams, ensuring individuals understand their role in maintaining safe environments
• Deliver practical, accessible guidance that promotes confident, accountable behaviours
• Ensure incidents, near misses and lessons learned are captured, shared and used to continuously improve safety practices across the business
• Help foster a culture where safety is embedded, visible and owned by everyone

What you'll achieve

• Build and embed a consistent, high-performing health & safety framework across all areas of the business
• Ensure safe, compliant delivery across live events, production environments and facilities
• Create clarity, structure and discipline in how safety processes are applied day-to-day in a practical way
• Strengthen organisational confidence through visible, practical safety leadership
• Partner cross-functionally to continuously improve safety standards and performance