Where a health and safety officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a health and safety officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Health and safety officers execute plans for the improvement of work environments and cultures. They assess risks and interview employees to ensure the work environment is compliant with health and safety rules, as well as ensuring the interaction within the workplace occurs in a positive and productive manner. If employed in a healthcare facility the health and safety officer has to investigate infections spreading across a facility and advice all employees how to combat and prevent infections. Furthermore health physics is applied at facilities where people are exposed to ionizing radiation such as nuclear power plants and research institutions.
Also known as public health inspector, health and safety advisor, occupational health nurse, occupational health and safety officer, occupational health officer, occupational hygienist, environmental and occupational heath officer, workplace health and safety advisor.
Professionals 38 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: emergency response coordinator, 46%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A health and safety officer needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- draw up risk assessment information skills
- educate employees on occupational hazards communication, collaboration and creativity
- communicate health and safety measures communication, collaboration and creativity
- monitor employee's health information skills
- follow standards for machinery safety assisting and caring
- assessment of risks and threats information and communication technologies (icts)
- personal protective equipment services
- advise on conflict management communication, collaboration and creativity
- monitor legislation developments information skills
- advise on risk management information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a health and safety officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- occupational health and safety inspector 51% covered · difficulty 49.7
- health safety and environmental manager 43% covered · difficulty 57.1
- healthcare inspector 31% covered · difficulty 66.9
- ombudsman 27% covered · difficulty 70.3
- emergency response coordinator 26% covered · difficulty 71.7
- environmental health inspector 24% covered · difficulty 72.8
- construction safety inspector 20% covered · difficulty 75.7
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Health and safety officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a health and safety officer’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.