Where a mine health and safety engineer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a mine health and safety engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Mine health and safety engineers develop and implement systems and procedures to prevent employee injury and sickness, improve mine working conditions, reduce health and safety risks and prevent damage to equipment and property.
Also known as mine safety engineer, mine health and safety engineers, mining health and safety engineer, industrial health and safety engineer.
Professionals 22 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: mine shift manager, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A mine health and safety engineer needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- develop health and safety strategies in mining management skills
- prevent health and safety problems assisting and caring
- train employees in mine safety communication, collaboration and creativity
- investigate mine accidents information skills
- mine safety legislation engineering, manufacturing and construction
- maintain records of mining operations information skills
- safety engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
- manage emergency procedures management skills
- prepare scientific reports communication, collaboration and creativity
- geology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a mine health and safety engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- mine manager 72% covered · difficulty 30
- mine mechanical engineer 64% covered · difficulty 36.8
- mine production manager 64% covered · difficulty 36.8
- mine electrical engineer 62% covered · difficulty 38.8
- quarry manager 60% covered · difficulty 39.5
- mine safety officer 58% covered · difficulty 40.4
- quarry engineer 56% covered · difficulty 43.5
- mine ventilation engineer 54% covered · difficulty 46
- mine shift manager 52% covered · difficulty 46.1
- explosives engineer 50% covered · difficulty 48.9
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Mine health and safety engineer 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 mine 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.