health and safety engineer
ISCO: 2149. Skills: 62. Essential: 11.
Essential skills
- adhere to health well-being and safety
- adjust engineering designs
- advise on safety improvements
- approve engineering design
- assessment of risks and threats
- draw up risk assessment
- engineering principles
- health and safety regulations
- monitor employee's health
- prevent health and safety problems
- safety engineering
Supporting skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to OHSAS 18001
- adhere to standards of national and international safety programmes
- advise architects
- advise on construction materials
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- assess ergonomics of the workplace
- carry out environmental audits
- chemistry
- civil engineering
- conduct fire safety inspections
- conduct fire tests
- conduct workplace audits
- design principles
- design safety equipment
- design strategies for nuclear emergencies
- determine fire risks
- develop material testing procedures
- draft design specifications
- educate employees on occupational hazards
- engineering processes
- environmental legislation
- ergonomics
- evaluate industrial hygiene
- fire prevention procedures
- fire protection engineering
- fire safety regulations
- fire-fighting systems
- follow nuclear plant safety precautions
- follow up on safety breaches
- human factors regarding safety
- install safety devices
- instruct employees on radiation protection
- investigate occupational injuries
- monitor work site
- nuclear energy
- perform laboratory tests
- perform scientific research
- physics
- plan health and safety procedures
- properties of textile materials
- quality assurance procedures
- radiation protection
- respond to nuclear emergencies
- scientific literature
- set safety and security standards
- test safety strategies
- thermodynamics
- thermohydraulics
- undertake inspections
- write inspection reports