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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
- 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 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 “Public Health Inspector”
- Investigate health-related complaints and inspect facilities to ensure that they comply with public health legislation and regulations.
- Conduct audits at hazardous waste sites or industrial sites or participate in hazardous waste site investigations.
- Maintain inventories of hazardous materials or hazardous wastes, using waste tracking systems to ensure that materials are handled properly.
- Collect samples of dust, gases, vapors, or other potentially toxic materials for analysis.
- Develop or maintain medical monitoring programs for employees.
- 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.
- Provide new-employee health and safety orientations and develop materials for these presentations.
- Coordinate "right-to-know" programs regarding hazardous chemicals or other substances.
- 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.
- Develop or maintain hygiene programs, such as noise surveys, continuous atmosphere monitoring, ventilation surveys, or asbestos management plans.
- Conduct safety training or education programs and demonstrate the use of safety equipment.
- Collaborate with engineers or physicians to institute control or remedial measures for hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or equipment.
- 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.
- Investigate the adequacy of ventilation, exhaust equipment, lighting, or other conditions that could affect employee health, comfort, or performance.
- Prepare hazardous, radioactive, or mixed waste samples for transportation or storage by treating, compacting, packaging, and labeling them.
- Perform laboratory analyses or physical inspections of samples to detect disease or to assess purity or cleanliness.
- Collect samples of hazardous materials or arrange for sample collection.
Related Technology & Tools
- Volumetric flasks
- Air sampling impingers
- Emergency eye wash stations
- High-volume air sampling pumps
- Laboratory balances
- Soil testing kits
- Low-volume air sampling pumps
- Rotameters
- Barometers
- Personal protective suits
- Liquid leak testing equipment
- X ray fluorescence XRF lead testing analyzers
- Combustible gas meters
- Smoke generating tubes
- Self-contained breathing apparatus
- Safety goggles
- Wet test meters
- Sample vials
- Respirators
- Refrigerant leak detectors
- Emergency shower stations
- Sampling trains
- Handheld thermometers
- Dissolved oxygen monitors
- Benzene detector tubes
- Personal computers
- Mold sampling equipment
- Luxmeters
- Chemical detection tubes
- Manometers
- Sorbent tubes
- Compressed air guns
- Moisture meters
- Multi-gas detectors
- Air sampling pumps
- Chlorine monitors
- Medical measuring tapes
- Cascade impactors
- Flame ionization detectors FID
- Colorimeters
- Gravimetric dust samplers
- Particle sensors
- Aerosol monitoring instruments
- Photometers
- Audiometers
- Radiation monitoring instruments
- Laboratory transfer pipettes
- Protective ear muffs
- Geiger-Muller counters
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Desktop computers
- Humidity measurement equipment
- Gamma radiation survey meters
- Dry gas meters
- Microliter syringes
- Air flow monitors
- Peristaltic pumps
- Notebook computers
- Gas leak testing equipment
- Turbidity monitors
- Safety shoes
- Pressure meters
- Fire extinguishers
- pH monitors
- Psychrometers
- Anemometers
- Spirometers
- Charcoal absorption tubes
- Vibration measurement equipment
- Ultraviolet UV digital meters
- Microsoft Office
- ImageWave MSDSFinder
- ESS Compliance Suite
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- Curtis Management Resources Training Management System
- Primatech AUDITWorks
- Web browser software
- RAE Systems HazRAE
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Medgate Enterprise EHS
- Safety Software OSHALOG 300
- Mannus Compliance: EHS
- EcoLogic ADAM Indoor Air Quality and Analytical Data Management
- Database software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Outlook
- Quality Systems Incorporated Safety Tagging System