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Job Description
Review, evaluate, and analyze work environments and design programs and procedures to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, and biological agents or ergonomic factors. May conduct inspections and enforce adherence to laws and regulations governing the health and safety of individuals. May be employed in the public or private sector. Includes environmental protection officers.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-9011.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 72,480.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 34.00
- Currently, there are 76,630 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Occupational Health and Safety Specialists”.
Also Known As…
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
- Safety Specialist
- Safety Consultant
- Risk Control Consultant
- Health and Safety Manager
- Environmental, Health, and Safety EHS Officer
- Environmental Health and Safety Manager
- Director Employee Safety and Health
- Corporate Safety Director
- Chief Safety Officer
- Certified Industrial Hygienist
- Work Environment Safety Inspector
- Water Inspector
- Venereal Disease Investigator
- Tick Inspector
- Senior Safety Support Manager
- Senior Safety Management Consultant
- Sanitation Officer
- Sanitation Inspector
- Sanitary Inspector
- Sanitarian Inspector
- Sanitarian
- Safety Trainer
- Safety Person
- Safety Officer
- Safety Manager
- Safety Investigator/Cause Analyst
- Safety Investigator
- Safety Instructor
- Safety Inspector
- Safety Director
- Safety and Skill Based Pay Manager
- Safety and Health Manager
- Safety Advisor
- Safety Administrator
- Risk Prevention Engineer
- Risk Analyst
- Restaurant Inspector
- Radiological Health Specialist
- Radiation Protection Specialist
- Rabies Inspector
- Quarantine Inspector
- Public Health Service Officer
- Public Health Inspector
- Principle Industrial Hygienist
- OSHA Inspector (Occupational Safety and Health Administration Inspector)
- Occupational Safety and Health Inspector
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialist
- Mortician Investigator
- Medical Safety Director
- Loss Control Representative
- Loss Control Consultant
- Industrial Waste Inspector
- Industrial Safety and Health Technician
- Industrial Safety and Health Specialist
- Industrial Hygienist
- Industrial Hygiene Technician
- Health, Safety and Environmental Specialist, Senior
- Health Sanitarian
- Health Safety Manager
- Health Physics Technician
- Health Inspector
- Health Care Facilities Inspector
- Health and Safety Technician
- Health and Safety Inspector
- Hazardous Waste Management Specialist
- Furniture and Bedding Inspector
- Food and Drug Inspector
- Field Health Officer
- Environmental Specialist
- Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Program Manager
- Environmental Protection Officer
- Environmental Protection Inspector
- Environmental Health Technologist
- Environmental Health Sanitarian
- Environmental Health Safety Manager
- Environmental Health Inspector
- Dining Service Inspector
- Corporate Environmental, Health, and Safety Director
- Chief of Safety and Protection
- Certified Professional Ergonomist
- Certified Indoor Environmentalist
- Cause Analyst
- Analysis or Research Safety Inspector
Tasks for “Food Inspector”
- Collect samples of dust, gases, vapors, or other potentially toxic materials for analysis.
- Conduct safety training or education programs and demonstrate the use of safety equipment.
- Conduct audits at hazardous waste sites or industrial sites or participate in hazardous waste site investigations.
- Collect samples of hazardous materials or arrange for sample collection.
- Maintain inventories of hazardous materials or hazardous wastes, using waste tracking systems to ensure that materials are handled properly.
- Perform laboratory analyses or physical inspections of samples to detect disease or to assess purity or cleanliness.
- Investigate accidents to identify causes or to determine how such accidents might be prevented in the future.
- Maintain or update emergency response plans or procedures.
- Inspect or evaluate workplace environments, equipment, or practices to ensure compliance with safety standards and government regulations.
- Inspect specified areas to ensure the presence of fire prevention equipment, safety equipment, or first-aid supplies.
- Investigate health-related complaints and inspect facilities to ensure that they comply with public health legislation and regulations.
- Investigate the adequacy of ventilation, exhaust equipment, lighting, or other conditions that could affect employee health, comfort, or performance.
- Develop or maintain hygiene programs, such as noise surveys, continuous atmosphere monitoring, ventilation surveys, or asbestos management plans.
- Recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials.
- Order suspension of activities that pose threats to workers' health or safety.
- Develop or maintain medical monitoring programs for employees.
- Prepare hazardous, radioactive, or mixed waste samples for transportation or storage by treating, compacting, packaging, and labeling them.
- Coordinate "right-to-know" programs regarding hazardous chemicals or other substances.
- Collaborate with engineers or physicians to institute control or remedial measures for hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or equipment.
- Provide new-employee health and safety orientations and develop materials for these presentations.
Related Technology & Tools
- Compressed air guns
- Sample vials
- Volumetric flasks
- Rotameters
- Air sampling pumps
- Laboratory transfer pipettes
- Barometers
- pH monitors
- Personal computers
- Dissolved oxygen monitors
- Safety shoes
- Refrigerant leak detectors
- Safety goggles
- Smoke generating tubes
- Cascade impactors
- Charcoal absorption tubes
- Peristaltic pumps
- Psychrometers
- Laboratory balances
- Protective ear muffs
- Radiation monitoring instruments
- Particle sensors
- Flame ionization detectors FID
- Chemical detection tubes
- Luxmeters
- Self-contained breathing apparatus
- Chlorine monitors
- Benzene detector tubes
- Ultraviolet UV digital meters
- Low-volume air sampling pumps
- Gravimetric dust samplers
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Spirometers
- Personal protective suits
- Microliter syringes
- Vibration measurement equipment
- Geiger-Muller counters
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Wet test meters
- Soil testing kits
- Sorbent tubes
- Audiometers
- Dry gas meters
- Manometers
- Desktop computers
- Gas leak testing equipment
- Pressure meters
- Liquid leak testing equipment
- Moisture meters
- Respirators
- Turbidity monitors
- Gamma radiation survey meters
- High-volume air sampling pumps
- X ray fluorescence XRF lead testing analyzers
- Medical measuring tapes
- Air flow monitors
- Combustible gas meters
- Humidity measurement equipment
- Notebook computers
- Sampling trains
- Multi-gas detectors
- Aerosol monitoring instruments
- Photometers
- Air sampling impingers
- Fire extinguishers
- Colorimeters
- Mold sampling equipment
- Emergency shower stations
- Anemometers
- Handheld thermometers
- ESS Compliance Suite
- SAP
- Microsoft Word
- EcoLogic ADAM Indoor Air Quality and Analytical Data Management
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Medgate Enterprise EHS
- ImageWave MSDSFinder
- Microsoft Office
- Mannus Compliance: EHS
- Microsoft Excel
- Web browser software
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Access
- Primatech AUDITWorks
- RAE Systems HazRAE
- Database software
- Quality Systems Incorporated Safety Tagging System
- Safety Software OSHALOG 300
- Curtis Management Resources Training Management System