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Overview
Health and safety engineer work combines engineering principles with health and safety requirements for objects, facilities and work programs.
In job descriptions, look for risk assessment, ergonomics, dangerous substances, fire risks, safety equipment, workplace audits, inspections and safety improvements.
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Health and safety engineers review facilities, designed objects and work programs where hazards must be reduced before people use equipment or perform tasks. Their work often connects engineering drawings, inspections, contaminant risks, ergonomics, dangerous substances and documented safety measures.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include risk assessment, safety engineering, workplace audits, fire-risk review, laboratory testing, safety-device design and clear advice on improvements. Specialization can develop around industrial facilities, environmental audits, hazardous materials, equipment protection or emergency planning.
Salary context
Pay context depends on the scale of facilities reviewed, the seriousness of hazards, design authority, inspection responsibility and whether the role advises projects or owns safety programs. Roles covering dangerous substances or complex engineering changes usually carry different expectations from routine site support.
Career paths
Common routes come from engineering, site safety, inspection, environmental work or technical compliance. Later moves can lead toward safety engineering lead, EHS management, risk assessment, audit coordination, fire safety work or specialist design review.
Good to know
Read vacancies for the hazards named, such as ergonomics, contaminants, fire risks or dangerous substances. Check whether the job designs safety equipment, audits sites, writes risk assessments, advises engineers or follows up incidents.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for health and safety engineer work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Engineering activities and related technical consultancy
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include fire prevention and protection engineer, acoustical engineer and robotics engineer.
Explore this activityTechnical testing and analysis
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include acoustical engineer, robotics engineer and test engineer.
Explore this activityRemediation activities and other waste management service activities
Another possibility is this activity. Other occupations there include nuclear engineer, waste treatment engineer and water engineer.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 3
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
19-5011.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETHealth and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
17-2111.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETHuman Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
17-2112.01
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
71.12Engineering activities and related technical consultancy71.2Technical testing and analysis39.0Remediation activities and other waste management service activities
Alternative labels
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
health and safety engineering adviser
safety engineer
Occupation group
Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified (2149)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a1273779-d2d4-4708-a406-62f7cdd26aab |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2149.10 |
| ISCO group | 2149 |
| Concept type | Occupation |