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Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors

Promote worksite or product safety by applying knowledge of industrial processes, mechanics, chemistry, psychology, and industrial health and safety laws. Includes industrial product safety engineers.

87 AI exposure
43 Human advantage
57 Market demand
67 AI leverage

Is Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors a safe career from AI?

Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors scores 87 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 43. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 57 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.4% over ten years.

What Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors pay

The median wage is $109,660 a year. The lower quarter earns under $85,400 and the upper quarter over $136,150. About 23,220 people do this work in the United States.

Where Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 94% of the skills carry over $84k median
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians 97% of the skills carry over $58k median
Nurse Anesthetists 85% of the skills carry over $223k median
Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 87% of the skills carry over $130k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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