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Health & Safety Coordinator

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Position Summary:

To Organize and Coordinate all relevant technical tasks required to support the laboratory personnel in producing high quality results and adhering to quality standards. Including but not limited to: maintaining multiple technical documents for regulatory requirements, review of all quality documentation for compliance and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.

Job Responsibilities:

  • The management of the PT process including the preparation and circulation of PT CAP folders on a monthly basis, maintaining the completed folders pending the CAP results, evaluating and grading the CAP results upon return, ensuring the PT's are signed off by the relevant personnel if satisfactory or, if unsatisfactory, returning the pack to the Lab for investigation.
  • Ordering the CAP PT's on an annual basis following consultation with the various departments. Cancelling and ordering any PT's throughout the year while ensuring that the CAP activity menu is kept up the date.
  • Responsible for the set up and ensuring compliance to the Alternative Assessment schedule on an annual basis and the safekeeping of these once completed and signed off by the relevant people.
  • Responsible for ensuring that the Correlation schedule is adhered to for the year.
  • Maintain the New Test Implementation Spreadsheet globally to ensure that all items are completed in order for a new test to be activated.
  • Responsible for the Rees system administration including quarterly rota generation and submitting payroll forms for on call personnel. Troubleshooting any issues with Rees or co-ordinating/overseeing the call out of Rees engineers should any issues arise with the system. Training new Staff and responsible for ordering new probes as and when required.
  • Ensuring the annual calibration schedule for timers, thermometers, centrifuges, microscopes, safety cabinets, microscopes and pipettes is adhered to and arranged throughout the year including the review, sign off and filing/maintenance of the paperwork associated with it.
  • Perform temp mapping on all freezers and, refrigerators and incubators. Sign off on all the maintenance paperwork.
  • Responsible for running the report detailing the weekly check of effective documents and withdrawn/superseded documents and placing any new/updated ones and ensuring that all previous versions are destroyed.
  • Responsible for sign off of the archive box paperwork and for the on-site and off site archiving of lab paperwork and retrieval of raw data as and when required e,g, for an audit.
  • Act as local Health and Safety Officer to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Legislation. Responsible for ensuring all Health and Safety documentation is up to date and that suitably trained Health and Safety representatives and fire wardens are available within the company

Job Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 2 years working in a Laboratory and relevant QA experience as an analyst in preferably GCP, or alternately GMP or GLP setting.
  • Ideally a qualification in Health and Safety but at least working knowledge relating to Health and Safety in the workplace and the legislation relating to it. Ensuring that the Health and Safety policy is updated and maintained as and when required keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a working knowledge of all Health and Safety authority legislation.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, Excellent organisational skills.
  • Knowledge of CAP, 21 CFR Part 11, ICH GCP required.
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