Work Health and Safety Manager
What the work is
Leads the development and implementation of work health and safety programs, and ensures compliance with related statutory requirements.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Manages the operations of the work health and safety business unit
- Manages work health and safety budgets
- Manages organisational response to any injury and compliance investigations
- Sets, monitors, reviews and evaluates work health and safety management strategies, policies and plans
- Oversees the organisation's work health and safety policies and practices to ensure compliance with legal requirements
- Advocates for work health and safety in organisational policy
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the compliance and safety office of a fictional factory that makes frozen meals. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- An external audit finishes and the auditor says your records told the story clearly
- A worker raises a hazard early, and fixing it takes ten minutes instead of causing an injury
- A supervisor who used to roll their eyes at safety starts running the toolbox talk themselves
Hard days
- Being the person who has to say the line cannot go back on until it is fixed
- Chasing paperwork that everyone agrees matters and nobody wants to fill in
- A regulator visits unannounced on the busiest day of the month
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 111633, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.