Industrial Safety & Health Engineers
Plan, implement, and coordinate safety programs, requiring application of engineering principles and technology, to prevent or correct unsafe environmental working conditions.
Also called: Environmental Health and Safety Director (EHS Director), Safety and Health Consultant, Safety Engineer, Safety Manager
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
- public safety and security
- law and government
Skills:
- reading work related information
- talking to others
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- read and understand what is written
- communicate by speaking
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- see hidden patterns
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Leadership
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Self Control
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- Root cause analysis software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Fire safety inspection and testing software
- Material safety data sheet MSDS software
Data base user interface and query software
- Anthropometric databases
- Microsoft Access
