2.6 KiB
2.6 KiB
Competences — health and safety officer
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/789517fb-95ee-43d1-9530-c2860be1a439).
Essential
- advise on conflict management (skill/competence)
- advise on risk management (skill/competence)
- assessment of risks and threats (knowledge)
- communicate health and safety measures (skill/competence)
- draw up risk assessment (skill/competence)
- educate employees on occupational hazards (skill/competence)
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation (skill/competence)
- environmental legislation (knowledge)
- follow standards for machinery safety (skill/competence)
- health, safety and hygiene legislation (knowledge)
- monitor employee's health (skill/competence)
- monitor legislation developments (skill/competence)
- personal protective equipment (knowledge)
- present reports (skill/competence)
- quality standards (knowledge)
- technical drawings (knowledge)
Optional
- advise on environmental risk management systems (skill/competence)
- apply conflict management (skill/competence)
- audit techniques (knowledge)
- conduct research interview (skill/competence)
- conduct workplace audits (skill/competence)
- educate on emergency management (skill/competence)
- employment law (knowledge)
- identify policy breach (skill/competence)
- implement strategic planning (skill/competence)
- issue licences (skill/competence)
- liaise with managers (skill/competence)
- make health, safety and environment assessments (skill/competence)
- observe confidentiality (skill/competence)
- occupational health (knowledge)
- perform health assessment autonomously (skill/competence)
- perform project management (skill/competence)
- perform risk analysis (skill/competence)
- pollution prevention (knowledge)
- project management (knowledge)
- provide improvement strategies (skill/competence)
- test safety strategies (skill/competence)
- use different communication channels (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 24 ads, as of 2026-07-12)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- incident investigation — 46 %
- risk assessment — 33 %
- regulatory compliance — 25 %
- environmental compliance — 21 %
- hazard analysis — 21 %
- root cause analysis — 17 %
Methods
- toolbox talks — 21 %
- osha standards — 21 %
Responsibilities
- training delivery — 25 %
- incident reporting — 17 %