Advance Your Career in Safety
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As your health and safety career develops, your responsibilities can change — and so can the knowledge and skills you need.
Explore training for more advanced HSE roles, greater responsibility and the next stage of your career.
Where Do You Want Your Career to Go Next?
You may be looking to take on more responsibility, move into a more senior HSE role or deepen your expertise in a particular area.
NOSA's career guidance identifies several roles that may form part of a developing health and safety career.
Health and Safety Coordinator
Health and Safety Coordinators typically work on more site-specific HSE requirements and may support more senior safety roles. Responsibilities can include reporting, maintaining incident records and providing HSE information to management.
Health and Safety Supervisor
Supervisory roles involve greater responsibility for coordinating day-to-day health and safety requirements. This can include overseeing hazard management, incident investigation and reporting, maintaining records and coordinating compliance activities.
HSE Professional
HSE Professional is a broad term covering roles including Safety Officers and Safety Supervisors. At this level, training becomes increasingly focused on deeper HSE knowledge, management systems, auditing and specialist expertise.
HSE Manager
HSE Managers operate at a senior level, with responsibility for understanding organisational risk, compliance and how HSE practices can be improved.
Interested in Training Others?
Training is another direction an experienced HSE professional may choose.
NOSA identifies Training Personnel as a specialist career route, with responsibilities that can include identifying training and development needs and planning, organising and overseeing training.
ITIS: Train the Trainer
Alongside advanced HSE qualifications and auditing training appropriate to the individual's experience and responsibilities.
Build on What You Already Know
You don't necessarily need to start again when you're ready to progress. The right next step depends on your existing training, experience and the role you want to move towards.