Occupational Health & Safety Specialists
Also called:
Health and Safety Manager, Safety Specialist, Safety Consultant, Corporate Safety Director
What they do:
Review, evaluate, and analyze work environments and design programs and procedures to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, and biological agents or ergonomic factors. May conduct inspections and enforce adherence to laws and regulations governing the health and safety of individuals. May be employed in the public or private sector. Includes environmental protection officers.
On the job, you would:
- Order suspension of activities that pose threats to workers' health and safety.
- Recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials.
- Investigate accidents to identify causes and to determine how such accidents might be prevented in the future.
Arts and Humanities
Safety and Government
- public safety and security
- law and government
Math and Science
- chemistry
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Education and Training
- teaching and course design
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Verbal
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Visual Understanding
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
- see hidden patterns
Attention
- pay attention to something without being distracted
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People interested in this work like activities that include
ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Initiative
- Persistence
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You might use software like this on the job:
Data base user interface and query software
- Medgate Occupational Health and Safety Software
- Microsoft Access
Compliance software
- ESS Compliance Suite
- Mannus Compliance: EHS
Spreadsheet software
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bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
$66,270
per year, on average
This work is part of the .
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