Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a health and safety engineer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a health and safety engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as industrial health and safety engineer, health and safety consultant engineer, occupational health and safety engineer, health engineer, health and safety engineering specialist, health and safety specialist, health and safety engineering consultant, health and safety engineering expert, health and safety expert, safety case lead author, environmental health and safety engineer, safety case expert.

Professionals 62 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: fire prevention and protection engineer, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
fire prevention and protectio… 72% covered fire safety tester 50% covered construction safety inspector 35% covered nuclear engineer 35% covered surface engineer 32% covered health and safety engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from health and safety engineer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a health and safety engineer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A health and safety engineer needs 11 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • prevent health and safety problems assisting and caring
  • adhere to health well-being and safety assisting and caring
  • draw up risk assessment information skills
  • monitor employee's health information skills
  • assessment of risks and threats information and communication technologies (icts)
  • advise on safety improvements communication, collaboration and creativity
  • safety engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • health and safety regulations services
  • approve engineering design communication, collaboration and creativity
  • adjust engineering designs communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a health and safety engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Health and safety engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a health and safety engineer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.