| Responsibilities | | | | with the instructions on conduct and about |
| | | | existing safety measures. |
| It is the responsibility of the Health and | | | | |
| Safety Manager to ensure the safety of | | | | Job Prospects |
| everyone who enters the company's premises. | | | | |
| They are solely responsible for the | | | | You can also work as an Environmental Health |
| implementation and ensuring that all the | | | | and Safety manager in a manufacturing unit, |
| safety regulations are followed. For example, | | | | where selection is based on education or |
| if a plant manufactures a hazardous material, | | | | internal promotion. The candidate would |
| then as a health and safety manager, they are | | | | ideally need to have a degree in Industrial |
| responsible to ensure the safety of the | | | | technology or a Business degree. But |
| workers by asking them to wear facemasks, | | | | nowadays, as Environmental Degree programs |
| goggles and protective clothing. If it is an | | | | have increased, candidates can find a job |
| office, then they are required to maintain | | | | immediately after they complete their college |
| safety by assuring that all desk drawers and | | | | education. |
| file cabinets are closed, spills cleaned up | | | | |
| and signs posted. | | | | Protecting people, equipment and the |
| | | | environment is the primary motive of an |
| One of the major roles of the Health and | | | | Occupational Health and Safety Specialist. |
| Safety Manager is to schedule routine fire | | | | They are called Ergonomists, Occupational |
| drills and also assure that each department | | | | Health and Safety Inspectors, Industrial |
| designates a person to act as a monitor. They | | | | Hygienists and Environmental Protection |
| may also have to walk the floor regularly, to | | | | Officers. They assist the company in creating |
| check for any violations and also to rectify | | | | safer and unpolluted processes. These Health |
| any problems. The Health and Safety Manager | | | | and Safety Specialists scrutinize the data |
| is designated to handle the issues related to | | | | collected by the technicians and then improve |
| illness that may result due to unsafe working | | | | them to protect the workers and the |
| conditions. They are basically responsible | | | | equipment. |
| for the implementation, application and | | | | |
| maintenance of value, decision and risk | | | | The primary duty of the Health and Safety |
| management tools, procedures and techniques. | | | | professional is to safeguard the workers and |
| | | | the company against the common workplace |
| Qualifications | | | | hazards. Such as: |
| | | | |
| To undertake the role of a Health and Safety | | | | - Injury caused from biological and chemical |
| Manager, you have to acquire a college or | | | | agents |
| university degree and gain several years of | | | | |
| experience. Education is an ongoing process | | | | - Protection from accidents caused by heavy |
| and must be upgraded, as new safety products | | | | metals |
| enter the market regularly. | | | | |
| | | | - Electricity hazards |
| A Health and Safety professional's | | | | |
| responsibility is to ensure that all the fire | | | | In the United States, the Occupational and |
| extinguishers are in safe and working | | | | Health Safety Administration has been |
| condition and that everyone knows how to find | | | | regulating the operational health and safety |
| and use them. In many companies, the manager | | | | since 1971. |
| recruits new employees and also guides them | | | | |