Occupation
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
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.
Is Occupational Health and Safety Specialists a safe career from AI?
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists scores 83 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 45. 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 73 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 18.5% over ten years.
What Occupational Health and Safety Specialists pay
The median wage is $83,910 a year. The lower quarter earns under $64,410 and the upper quarter over $105,390. About 128,430 people do this work in the United States.
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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.