Andrew Jude

A meticulous, hard-working and focused professional with experience in fire, health and safety, compliance and business management

Able to demonstrate high levels of motivation, discipline and is able to interact well with both colleagues, senior managers and local authorities.

Health, Safety & Compliance Officer

Places for People - Edinburgh October 2022 to Present

Entrusted with the role of carrying out a comprehensive group-wide H&S GAP analysis, following the direction of the Group Director of Compliance, to determine any deficiencies in the current health and safety management system for the Finance, People, Places Impact, and IT divisions within the Organisation. Achieved compliance with the ISO 45001 standard, whilst addressing identified gaps and collaborating with Group Department Leadership to assist in the implementation of control measures.

Create and review Task and Role based risk assessments throughout the 'Homes Plus' and 'Assets & Investments' portfolio, including SSOW and various operative role risk assessments.

Conduct regular and statutory inspections of all Homes plus sites within Scotland, to review standards of health and safety and provide assurance on compliance. Provide timely inspection reports to the Group Compliance Management Team and follow up where issues identified at previous inspections need actioning.

Conduct compliance assessments against the Health and Safety Management system to provide assurance to the Health and Safety Board that policing area responsibilities are being met.

Ensure that safety inspections are carried out, fire drills and fire alarms are correctly reported, safety inspections, risk assessments and lone working procedures are managed and employees are aware of their responsibilities.

Administer the Accident Management System, conducting accident investigations when required, ensuring accidents are investigated and the system is up to date.

Providing support and advice to Service Managers on areas such as the impact of developing health and safety legislation, Council policies, safe systems of work, performance monitoring including more serious or complex issues which have wider policy/operational implications.

Develop and maintain adequate protocol and quality control of Health and Safety standards.

Ensure that systems are in place to effectively review the quality of Health and Safety survey reports, population and maintenance databases, works requests and other contract specific documentation.

Liaise with suppliers for procurement of health and safety resources.

Assist wider Corporate Services team with Audit follow up on health and safety matters. Provide compliance support across the core streams in Corporate Services. Working with Head of Corporate Services to ensure ideal scores on compliance indicators.

Health and Safety Consultant

The HR Dept - Edinburgh January 2022 to October 2022

Managing Health & Safety for a portfolio of clients across industry sectors to achieve Health & Safety compliance.

Creating and completing bespoke risk assessments including the fire risk assessment.

Auditing existing H&S documents and systems.

Drafting reports detailing non-compliance and recommendations.

Drafting and implementation of tailored H&S documents including H&S Policies, Employee Safety Handbooks and other bespoke documents as required.

Conduct follow up site visits/audits to ensure compliance is being maintained.

Delivery of training to clients on a range of Health & Safety subjects.

Assistance with accreditations such as CHAS and Safe Contractor.

To develop, maintain and update the suite of H&S documents available both internally to our staff and externally to clients.

To give advice to clients on the telephone and by email, including occasional out of hours advice. Supporting the Marketing team

Undertake accident or other special investigations to assist the client as required.

Advise clients on matters of Health & Safety standards and best practice.

Service Desk Analyst

Ingenico - Dalgety Bay January 2020 to January 2022

Providing advice, guidance and incident management to everyone involved in the Card Payment Industry, part of a dynamic team providing end-to-end support, enabling businesses to offer payments across channels: in-store, online and mobile.

Manage a workload of incidents and requests raised by both our customers and 3rd party Service Providers and own these until resolution, ensuring that Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) are met for our clients.

Utilise triage and problem solving, using appropriate support tools and knowledge articles, to ensure prompt resolution to incidents raised by our customers.

Fire, Health and Safety Supervisor

Coro The Chocolate Cafe - Edinburgh February 2018 to December 2019

Recommend measures to help protect employees from potentially hazardous work methods, processes or materials.

Investigate accidents to identify the causes or to determine how such accidents might be prevented in future.

Handling and control of accident reporting procedures including RIDDORs.

Inspect or evaluate cafe environments, equipment or practices to ensure compliance with safety standards and governmental regulations.

Conduct safety training or education programs and demonstrate the use of safety equipment, COSHH, Manual Handling and Fire Safety.

Creating and completing bespoke risk assessments including the fire risk assessment.

Self Employed Business Owner

Sucra Ltd - Edinburgh January 2016 to February 2018

• Own and manage all facets of the small business, from startup operations to the day to day running of the retail business.

• Key driver in the development of a business plan, vision process, and startup operations of the retail business.

• Drive sales efforts and shoulder responsibilities of site supervisions, accounting, and project management.

• Monitor all aspects of the business operations including digital media, website, research, finance, HR and marketing and retail property management.

• Handles the creation and running of company website, social media and digital design using many platforms including photoshop, illustrator, wordpress, facebook and twitter.

• Perform payroll functions, such as maintaining time-keeping information and processing and submitting the payroll.

• Collect and deposit money into accounts, disburse funds from cash accounts to pay bills or invoices, keep records of collections and disbursements, and ensure that accounts are balanced.

• Create, maintain and enter information into databases.

• Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.

• Direct and coordinate organization's financial and budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, and increase efficiency.

• Determine goods and services to be sold, and set prices and credit terms, based on forecasts of customer demand.

• Manage the movement of goods into and out of production facilities.

• Perform sales floor work, such as greeting or assisting customers, stocking shelves, or taking inventory.

• Plan store layouts or design displays.

• Gather and organise information to plan advertising campaigns.

• Manage all aspects of the business's fire, health and safety policies, including the training of staff and handling of Risk Assessments.

• Handles all property management tasks for business retail units, including security and maintenance.

Fire, Health and Safety Officer

Marks and Spencer - EdinburghJanuary 2007 to January 2016

• Recommend measures to help protect employees from potentially hazardous work methods, processes or materials.

• Inspect or evaluate workplace environments, equipment or practices to ensure compliance with safety standards and governmental regulations.

• Develop or maintain hygiene programs, such as noise surveys, continuous atmosphere monitoring, ventilation surveys, or asbestos management plans.

• Conduct safety training or education programs and demonstrate the use of safety equipment, COSHH, Manual Handling and Fire Safety.

• Investigate health-related complaints and inspect facilities to ensure that they comply with public health legislation and regulations.

• Collaborate with engineers or contractors to institute control or remedial measures for hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or equipment.

• Investigate accidents to identify the causes or to determine how such accidents might be prevented in future.

• Inspect buildings to locate hazardous conditions and fire-regulation violations, such as an accumulation of combustible material, electrical wiring problems, and inadequate or non-functional fire exits.

• Present and explain fire-regulation requirements and fire-prevention information to architects, contractors, solicitors, engineers, developers, fire-service personnel and the general public.

• Attend training classes to maintain current knowledge of fire prevention, safety and fire-fighting procedures.

• Write detailed reports of fire inspections performed, fire-regulation violations observed and corrective recommendations offered.

• Maintain staff records and ensure statutory requirements are met with regards to all compliance training including Fire, Manual Handling, COSHH, Food Safety, Emergency Team and more.

• Inspect properties that store, handle and use hazardous materials to ensure compliance with regulations and the law, and issue hazardous-materials permits to facilities found in compliance.

• Develop or review plans for fire exits.

• Train and manage the store's Emergency and First Aid Team through various rotas and training techniques including extinguisher and Evac chair training.

• Testing and maintaining the store's fire detection, communication and security/alarm systems.

• Liaise with local council's and government officials to discuss store incidents and complaints.

• Handling and control of accident reporting procedures including RIDDORs.

• Planning and execution of Fire drills within the retail unit, with the liaison of Retail Park Management.

Scottish Higher Level (A/B acheived) in Mathematics, Business Management, English, History, German, Product Design

Inverkeithing High School - Fife, UKAugust 2007
 

NEBOSH Fire Certificate

May 2024 to Present

Enrolled in the course with an expected finish date in the middle of 2025.

ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor

November 2023 to Present

IOSH Accident Investigation for Lead Investigators

October 2023 to Present

NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety

August 2021 to Present

Risk Assessment and Fire Supervisor Qualification

April 2015 to Present

West Midlands Fire Service

Level 3 Award in Health and Safety

May 2010 to Present

Highfield Training for Fire, Health & Safety Officers

Fire Marshall and Evac+ Chair

May 2010 to Present