3.4 KiB
3.4 KiB
Competences — health and safety engineer
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a1273779-d2d4-4708-a406-62f7cdd26aab).
Essential
- adhere to health well-being and safety (skill/competence)
- adjust engineering designs (skill/competence)
- advise on safety improvements (skill/competence)
- approve engineering design (skill/competence)
- assessment of risks and threats (knowledge)
- draw up risk assessment (skill/competence)
- engineering principles (knowledge)
- health and safety regulations (knowledge)
- monitor employee's health (skill/competence)
- prevent health and safety problems (skill/competence)
- safety engineering (knowledge)
Optional
- accept own accountability (skill/competence)
- adhere to OHSAS 18001 (skill/competence)
- adhere to standards of national and international safety programmes (skill/competence)
- advise architects (skill/competence)
- advise on construction materials (skill/competence)
- apply knowledge of human behaviour (skill/competence)
- assess ergonomics of the workplace (skill/competence)
- carry out environmental audits (skill/competence)
- chemistry (knowledge)
- civil engineering (knowledge)
- conduct fire safety inspections (skill/competence)
- conduct fire tests (skill/competence)
- conduct workplace audits (skill/competence)
- design principles (knowledge)
- design safety equipment (skill/competence)
- design strategies for nuclear emergencies (skill/competence)
- determine fire risks (skill/competence)
- develop material testing procedures (skill/competence)
- draft design specifications (skill/competence)
- educate employees on occupational hazards (skill/competence)
- engineering processes (knowledge)
- environmental legislation (knowledge)
- ergonomics (knowledge)
- evaluate industrial hygiene (skill/competence)
- fire prevention procedures (knowledge)
- fire protection engineering (knowledge)
- fire safety regulations (knowledge)
- fire-fighting systems (knowledge)
- follow nuclear plant safety precautions (skill/competence)
- follow up on safety breaches (skill/competence)
- human factors regarding safety (knowledge)
- install safety devices (skill/competence)
- instruct employees on radiation protection (skill/competence)
- investigate occupational injuries (skill/competence)
- monitor work site (skill/competence)
- nuclear energy (knowledge)
- perform laboratory tests (skill/competence)
- perform scientific research (skill/competence)
- physics (knowledge)
- plan health and safety procedures (skill/competence)
- properties of textile materials (knowledge)
- quality assurance procedures (knowledge)
- radiation protection (knowledge)
- respond to nuclear emergencies (skill/competence)
- scientific literature (knowledge)
- set safety and security standards (skill/competence)
- test safety strategies (skill/competence)
- thermodynamics (knowledge)
- thermohydraulics (knowledge)
- undertake inspections (skill/competence)
- write inspection reports (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 39 ads, as of 2026-07-12)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- incident investigation — 59 %
- risk assessment — 51 %
- regulatory compliance — 49 %
- hazard analysis — 26 %
- root cause analysis — 18 %
Responsibilities
- incident investigation — 18 %