Career Choices: Health and Safety Professionals
Job Description
Health and Safety Professionals are educated and trained in skills including risk assessment, organisational behaviour, the sciences, management, toxicology, industrial relations and environmental science.
Estimated Salary:
$55,000 (new graduate) to $345,000
In Western Australia employers often pay a premium to staff working on remote sites or shift work.
Potential Employers
Almost every medium or large sized organisation has access to a health and safety professional, whether it be in-house, consultant or governmental advisor. In Western Australia employers include mining industry organisations, health and safety consultants and governmental departments (WorkSafe and Dept. Minerals and Petroleum Resources).
Post-graduate students with a nursing, allied health, management, sciences, engineering background are well sought after by employers.
Career Structures
Often new graduates spend 2 to 3 years learning about their industry before looking to more challenging roles, and a professional Masters course.
Employment Opportunities
The opportunities for Health and Safety graduates are enormous because of the desirability across all industry for the qualifications. The weekend papers usually contain between 3 and 15 jobs suitable for graduates. We also post some opportunities to our Opportunities section of our website.
- Work Safe or Department Minerals & Petroleum Resources
- Mining organisations
- Unions and employers
To find out what types of career pathways and exciting employment our graduates have had please view our graduate stories.
