How do they match: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

  • Hazardous Waste Management Specialist
  • Work Environment Safety Inspector

  • 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.

  • Analyze incident data to identify trends in injuries, illnesses, accidents, or other hazards.
  • Collaborate with engineers or physicians to institute control or remedial measures for hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or equipment.
  • Collect samples of hazardous materials or arrange for sample collection.
  • Collect samples of dust, gases, vapors, or other potentially toxic materials for analysis.
  • Conduct audits at hazardous waste sites or industrial sites or participate in hazardous waste site investigations.
  • Coordinate "right-to-know" programs regarding hazardous chemicals or other substances.
  • Maintain inventories of hazardous materials or hazardous wastes, using waste tracking systems to ensure that materials are handled properly.
  • Order suspension of activities that pose threats to workers' health or safety.
  • Prepare hazardous, radioactive, or mixed waste samples for transportation or storage by treating, compacting, packaging, and labeling them.
  • Provide new-employee health and safety orientations and develop materials for these presentations.
  • Recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials.

  • Inspect work environments to ensure safety.
  • Investigate safety of work environment.
  • Monitor the handling of hazardous materials or medical wastes.
  • Prepare healthcare training materials.
  • Test facilities for environmental hazards.