Occupation Atlashealth and safety engineer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a1273779-d2d4-4708-a406-62f7cdd26aab
health and safety engineer
Health and safety engineers design objects and programs by combining engineering principles and health and safety requirements. They envision the protection and well-being of the people using designed objects or performing work under designed health and safety programs. They assess facilities and the risks that they might pose (e.g. contaminant materials, ergonomics, handling of dangerous substances, etc.) in order to design and improve health and safety measures.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
IRCInvestigative · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.63
- R Realistic5.36
- C Conventional4.68
- E Enterprising2.27
- S Social2.17
- A Artistic1.04
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Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors (17-2111.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (11)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adhere to health well-being and safety
- adjust engineering designs
- advise on safety improvements
- approve engineering design
- assessment of risks and threats
- draw up risk assessment
- engineering principles
- health and safety regulations
- monitor employee's health
- prevent health and safety problems
- safety engineering
Optional (51)
- accept own accountability
- adhere to OHSAS 18001
- adhere to standards of national and international safety programmes
- advise architects
- advise on construction materials
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- assess ergonomics of the workplace
- carry out environmental audits
- chemistry
- civil engineering
- conduct fire safety inspections
- conduct fire tests
- conduct workplace audits
- design principles
- design safety equipment
- design strategies for nuclear emergencies
- determine fire risks
- develop material testing procedures
- draft design specifications
- educate employees on occupational hazards
- engineering processes
- environmental legislation
- ergonomics
- evaluate industrial hygiene
- fire prevention procedures
- fire protection engineering
- fire safety regulations
- fire-fighting systems
- follow nuclear plant safety precautions
- follow up on safety breaches
- human factors regarding safety
- install safety devices
- instruct employees on radiation protection
- investigate occupational injuries
- monitor work site
- nuclear energy
- perform laboratory tests
- perform scientific research
- physics
- plan health and safety procedures
- properties of textile materials
- quality assurance procedures
- radiation protection
- respond to nuclear emergencies
- scientific literature
- set safety and security standards
- test safety strategies
- thermodynamics
- thermohydraulics
- undertake inspections
- write inspection reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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