Health & Safety Manager - Waterpark

Job description / Role

Rixos Qetaifan Island North

Opening mid 2022, Rixos Doha Qetaifan will comprise a 345-key hotel, along with a souq encompassing 11,000sq m of leasing space, a beach club, a theme park and a waterpark. The resort will boast panoramic views of the Arabian Gulf. Slated to make its debut right before the World Cup, Rixos plans to provide a platform for showcasing Qatar as a tourism destination. One of the country's biggest draws will be Qetaifan Island North's waterpark attraction The Icon Tower, the world's highest tower of its kind, reaching 82 metres in height.

Health & Safety Manager - Waterpark

This position ensures that safe work practices are implemented/conducted in all areas of the business. Reports all safety-related concerns to the General Manager, keep records of incidents, follows up on corrective action, and conducts audits in line with Food Safety standards.

What's in it for you:
- Be part of a unique and complex resort in Qatar
- Take advantage of opportunities to be recognized for your professional contributions
- Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide
- Learning programs through our academies
- Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world
- Ability to make a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities like Planet 21

What you will be doing:
- Formulate, develop and monitor the implementation of health and safety policies, systems, procedures, and standards for existing activities and new processes within the business in order to ensure effective risk management
- Establish and maintain procedures for the reporting, investigation, recording, and analysis of injury accidents, dangerous occurrences, near-miss incidents, and work-related ill health
- Investigate health, safety, and food hygiene-related complaints and ensure that such complaints are concluded to a practicable standard
- Oversee food safety across the organization to ensure that the requisite legislative and best practice standards are established and maintained
- Act as HACCP Team Leader
- Liaise with external auditors in relation to food safety
- Develop and maintain an effective risk assessment strategy/culture and through auditing ensure that all risk assessments are of suitable and sufficient standard
- Ensure the effective management of fire risk with the Security Manager
- Conduct internal safety audits to monitor safety performance against prescribed standards and to provide feedback to management as appropriate
- Contribute to the development and harmonization of safety standards across the business through active work with other businesses
- Establish organizational systems and risk control methods relating to hardware and human performance by advising line management on matters such as legal and technical standards
- Develop and implement cost-effective safety management/accident prevention strategies to control direct and indirect costs arising from work-related accidents and ill health involving guests, employees, and contractors
- Investigate all safety-related civil claims (i.e. personal injury claims) as required to support the Legal Department
- Ensure that effective safety planning includes realistic short- and long-term objectives, and that a cost-benefit analysis approach is used to determine priorities and establish performance standards
- Liaise with Heads of Departments and the Learning and Development Director to identify safety training needs and ensure that safety training programs undertaken reflect the needs of the business and the delegates involved
- Proactively identify and drive safety-related initiatives that will deliver excellent customer service across the business
- Promote a positive health and safety culture by securing the effective communication and implementation of the group health and safety policy
- Provide the management team with advice and regular status reports on safety issues and performance reviews
- Provide competent advice to the senior management with respect to general corporate risk management and business continuity planning and maintain the associated risk register accordingly
- Devise a system of monitoring and communicating advice to Heads of Departments on future changes to health & safety management
- Interpret and apply safety law pragmatically in the context of the organization and relevant industry standards
- Manage 3 rd party medical clinic service providers

Requirements

Your experience and skills include:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety
- 5+ years of experience preferably in a theme park or waterpark park environment
- Environmental Management qualification (Desirable)
- Fire Management qualification (Desirable)
- Level 4 Food Safety qualification (Desirable)
- Development of HSE policies and procedures and the implementation of
- Incident investigation
- Delivery of HSE training courses
- Data analysis for measurement of HSE performance
- HSE Auditing
- Experience working in the Middle East region
- Good reading, writing, and oral proficiency in the English language
- Ability to speak other languages such as Arabic will be an advantage
- Good working knowledge of MS Excel & Word

Your team & working environment:

At Accor, we are Heartists!

Are you ready to put your heart at the center of everything that you do? If so, then join our team of Heartists at Rixos Qetaifan Island, Every day, we look for opportunities to engage on a personal & meaningful way with our guests and each other. We deliver heartfelt hospitality in an environment that is engaging, enthusiastic and professionally rewarding!

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.

Why work for Accor?

We are far more than a worldwide leader. We welcome you as you are and you can find a job and brand that matches your personality. We support you to grow and learn every day, making sure that work brings purpose to your life, so that during your journey with us, you can continue to explore Accor's limitless possibilities.

By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow's hospitality. Discover the life that awaits you at Accor.

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