Employment programme coordinator to health and safety inspector
An employment programme coordinator already meets 39% of what the health and safety inspector role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
58.2/ 100
1 How much of what a health and safety inspector is expected to do is already part of an employment programme coordinator’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the health and safety inspector role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A health and safety inspector role treats 6 of its required skills as things an employment programme coordinator already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- advise on government policy compliance
- employment law
- gather feedback from employees
- government policy implementation
- personnel management
- protect employee rights
What stands in the way is 9 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A health and safety inspector role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an employment programme coordinator background worth leading with.
- already held set inclusion policies management skills
- already held protect employee rights communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held personnel management business, administration and law
- already held gather feedback from employees information skills
- already held advise on government policy compliance communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held manage government policy implementation management skills
All 11 carried skills, including the 6 the health and safety inspector role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 18 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn monitor employee's health required
- still to learn monitor organisation climate required
- still to learn conduct workplace audits required
- still to learn inspect government policy compliance required
- optional, not held monitor company policy optional
- still to learn maintain relationships with government agencies required
- still to learn present reports required
- still to learn write inspection reports required
- optional, not held advise on conflict management optional
- optional, not held advise on organisational culture optional
- optional, not held apply conflict management optional
- optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
- still to learn audit techniques required
- optional, not held corporate law optional
- still to learn health and safety in the workplace required
- optional, not held occupational health optional
- optional, not held respond to enquiries optional
- optional, not held identify policy breach optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a health and safety inspector role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 monitor employee's health practise this
- 02 monitor organisation climate practise this
- 03 audit techniques study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 11 skills that carry over
- already held advise on government policy compliance skill
- already held employment law knowledge
- already held gather feedback from employees skill
- already held government policy implementation knowledge
- already held personnel management knowledge
- already held protect employee rights skill
- already held create solutions to problems skill
- already held liaise with local authorities skill
- already held manage government policy implementation skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held set inclusion policies skill
9 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held identify policy breach optional
- optional, not held occupational health optional
- optional, not held advise on conflict management optional
- optional, not held advise on organisational culture optional
- optional, not held apply conflict management optional
- optional, not held corporate law optional
- optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
- optional, not held monitor company policy optional
- optional, not held respond to enquiries optional
16 held skills the health and safety inspector role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise on carbon emissions reduction skill
- not needed by the target role advise on legislative acts skill
- not needed by the target role analyse goal progress skill
- not needed by the target role analyse unemployment rates skill
- not needed by the target role business processes knowledge
- not needed by the target role carry out strategic research skill
- not needed by the target role develop employment policies skill
- not needed by the target role develop professional network skill
- not needed by the target role ensure information transparency skill
- not needed by the target role maintain relations with local representatives skill
- not needed by the target role perform project management skill
- not needed by the target role project management principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role promote employment policy skill
- not needed by the target role promote equal pay skill
- not needed by the target role promote social change skill
- not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn audit techniques required
- still to learn health and safety in the workplace required
- optional, not held occupational health optional
- optional, not held corporate law optional
Other moves recorded from employment programme coordinator
Common questions about this move
Can an employment programme coordinator become a health and safety inspector?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. An employment programme coordinator already covers 39% of what a health and safety inspector is expected to do: 11 skills carry over, 6 of which the health and safety inspector role treats as required.
What skills does an employment programme coordinator need to become a health and safety inspector?
9 required skills are missing, plus 9 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is monitor employee's health.
How hard is the move from employment programme coordinator to health and safety inspector?
Its learning distance is 58.2 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.