Accepting applications until:
17 October 2026
Job Description
Health & Safety Director
At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We’re the proud home of the best media and entertainment, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone’s day brighter - our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we’re in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we’re doing it as a team.
Your Role: Health & Safety Director
The Health & Safety Director is responsible for developing, leading, and embedding a best- in-class, ISO aligned health and safety, strategy and culture across the organisation.
This leadership role ensures regulatory compliance, drives a proactive safety culture, reduces risk exposure, and protects employees, contractors and customers across all operations.
Providing single-point leadership for Global’s health, safety, environment and quality agenda across live events, outside broadcasts, activations, UK workplaces and property, and outdoor estates.
The Role Includes:
- Ensuring that the Outdoor business remains ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 50001 accredited and developing and delivering a roadmap for the Workspace and Events & Broadcast businesses to align with, and where appropriate achieve, ISO accreditation;
- Coordinating international Outdoor operations to ensure local management systems are aligned with ISO 45001 standards;
- Developing, implementing and continuously improving the Group’s Integrated Management System to ensure it is effective and robust across Outdoor, Workspace and Events & Broadcast, protecting the business (including brand reputation, corporate responsibility, regulatory compliance and employee health and safety) and safeguarding franchise partners, clients and other third partie
As Health & Safety Director at Global, you will:
Strategy and Leadership:
- Develop and implement a Group Health & Safety strategy aligned with corporate objectives;
- Provide expert guidance to the Board and Executive Team on risk and compliance matters;
- Establish measurable KPIs and performance frameworks to drive continuous
- improvement;
- Engage proactively with key stakeholders across Events & Broadcast, Outdoor (including international markets), Workspace, recognising them as internal
- customers and identifying ways to share information to achieve desired results;
- Understand, respect and respond to others’ priorities and needs, working in partnership to achieve the best outcome that benefits the organisation, protects the business and enables it to meet its commercial objectives.
Governance & Compliance:
- Oversee the development and maintenance of group-wide H&S policies and procedures;
- Ensure compliance with all applicable local, national, and international H&Slegislation;
- Monitor regulatory changes and advise leadership on business impact;
- Lead internal and external audits, inspections, and certifications (e.g. ISO 45001), as applicable.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and lead improvement programmes, including behavioural safety.
Risk Management:
- Establish enterprise-wide risk assessment frameworks;
- Identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks across all sites;
- Oversee incident reporting, investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action plans;
- Oversee incident escalation, management and reporting;
- Lead crisis management and emergency preparedness planning.
Operational Oversight:
- Provide leadership and direction to H&S team;
- Ensure consistent standards across multiple business units and geographies;
- Conduct site visits and performance reviews, in conjunction with the team, to ensure implementation;
- Work with the H&S team to support operational leaders in integrating safety into daily operations;
- Oversee budgets to deliver effective and efficient safety performance, develop third party relationships and understand alternative management solutions and market leading approaches;
- Take ownership of the Group’s Integrated Management System and any associated audits and accreditations;
- Assume the role as Sentinel Coordinator for Global Outdoor Media Ltd and Primesight Ltd.
Reporting & Performance:
- Prepare Board-level reports on H&S performance, trends, and risk exposure;
- Work with the H&S team to analyse incident data to identify patterns and improvement opportunities;
- Benchmark performance against industry standards.
Culture & Engagement:
- Support the H&S team to drive behavioural safety programmes and safety leadership training;
- Promote employee engagement and ownership of safety practices;
- Foster a culture of transparency and learning from incidents.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: The chance to shape and embed one Group-wide H&S strategy across a genuinely varied organisation (Events & Broadcast, Outdoor (including international markets) and Workspace) with visible Board sponsorship.
Own It: Real accountability to set standards, influence leaders, and drive measurable improvements - backed by clear governance, data, and the mandate to act.
Keep it Simple: A role where you can cut through complexity by standardising what “good” looks like (policies, risk frameworks, reporting) and make safety practical for frontline teams.
Better Together: Working in partnership with passionate operational teams and specialists to share learning, solve problems quickly, and build a consistent safety culture across the Group.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Established strong working relationships with business leads and internal customers who know how to engage you and what to expect.
- Created a working Group H&S governance cadence (e.g. monthly exec forum + quarterly Board reporting), with consistent templates and a single source of truth for KPIs and incidents.
- Produced an agreed Group H&S strategy and roadmap (including resources and budget, plus standardised risk assessment, incident investigation and audit/ISO approach.)
What You’ll Need
Effective Communication:
- To articulate a clear message and persuade and influence others to gain support for ideas or actions in the best interest of the organisation. To understand one’s audience and to adapt a message or presentation to that group to achieve support and results;
- To be able to build strong business relationships – with internal and external stakeholders, customers, and suppliers;
- Strong in setting standards and getting buy-in to meet those standards;
- The ability to promote a culture of safety to ensure that all relevant Globallers are engaged with safety practices.
Client Partner Focus:
- To work with internal and/or external partners, forums and industry bodies to understand their priorities and success measures. To build positive relationships, looking for win-win solutions to drive an improved HSEQ performance.
Collaboration:
- To understand, respect and respond to others’ priorities and needs, working in partnership to achieve the best outcome that benefits the organisation. A protected business and one that can meet its commercial objectives. To break down barriers and overcome obstacles, recognising other departments as internal customers, and identifying ways to share information to achieve desired results.
Results Driven:
- To set standards and goals for self and others that will result in achieving and exceeding expectations;
- To ensure a world class HSEQ environment and performance is delivered;
- To set objectives to lead the industry in our field for HSEQ activities
Coaching and Development:
- Nurturing talent by empowering and guiding individuals to unlock their potential
Building Trust:
- Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team
Qualification and Knowledge Areas
- In-depth knowledge of UK safety regulations and guidance, including CDM (Construction, Design and Management) regulations, fire safety and crowd control
- NEBOSH (or equivalent) at Level 6 Health & Safetyo Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH) or equivalent membership of a similar professional body preferred
- Certifications relevant to sector-specific risks (e.g. construction, events, hazardous operations)
- 10 + years in H&S roles
- Experience leading multi-site, multi-divisional, or international H&S functions is preferred
- Track record of Board-level reporting and influencing senior stakeholders
- Experience embedding ISO 45001 (or similar management systems) across complex organisations
- Crisis management and incident response leadership
