Product Safety Engineers
Also called:
Product Safety Manager, Product Safety Engineer, Engineer, Product Safety Consultant
What they do:
Develop and conduct tests to evaluate product safety levels and recommend measures to reduce or eliminate hazards.
On the job, you would:
- Investigate causes of accidents, injuries, or illnesses related to product usage in order to develop solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.
- Evaluate potential health hazards or damage that could occur from product misuse.
- Participate in preparation of product usage and precautionary label instructions.
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- design
Arts and Humanities
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- physics
Safety and Government
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Basic Skills
- reading work related information
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
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
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
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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
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Analytical Thinking
- Initiative
- Persistence
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You might use software like this on the job:
Analytical or scientific software
- Design Safety Engineering Designsafe
- Fault tree analysis FTA software
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Mathsoft Mathcad
Development environment software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- National Instruments LabVIEW
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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 likely in the future.
$75,470
per year, on average
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You might like a career in one of these industries:
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