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Where an occupational health and safety inspector can go next

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

Occupational health and safety inspectors perform workplace audits to ensure compliance with government and environment legislation. They also investigate work accidents. Occupational health and safety inspectors interview employees to ensure the work environment is compliant with health and safety rules, inspect the physical work site and analyse legal paperwork.

Also known as safety officer, environmental health inspector, health and safety inspector, environmental health officer, factory inspector, HSE inspector, regulatory health and safety inspector, workplace health and safety inspector.

Technicians and associate professionals 61 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: health and safety officer, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 5 nearest destinations from occupational health and safety inspector, 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 an occupational health and safety inspector 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

An occupational health and safety inspector needs 34 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

ensure annual safety inspections assisting and caring
foster compliance with health and safety rules by setting an example assisting and caring
investigate occupational injuries information skills
prevent health and safety problems assisting and caring
assist employee health programmes communication, collaboration and creativity
inform on workplace safety standards communication, collaboration and creativity
make health, safety and environment assessments information skills
manage health and safety assisting and caring
prevent work accidents assisting and caring
adhere to OHSAS 18001 assisting and caring

Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

health safety and environmental manager 36% covered · difficulty 73.1

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Occupational health and safety inspector is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 an occupational health and safety inspector’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.