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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Investigate industrial accidents, injuries, or occupational diseases to determine causes and preventive measures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Conduct research to evaluate safety levels for products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Evaluate product designs for safety.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Conduct or coordinate worker training in areas such as safety laws and regulations, hazardous condition monitoring, and use of safety equipment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Maintain and apply knowledge of current policies, regulations, and industrial processes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Recommend procedures for detection, prevention, and elimination of physical, chemical, or other product hazards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Report or review findings from accident investigations, facilities inspections, or environmental testing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Evaluate potential health hazards or damage that could occur from product misuse.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Evaluate adequacy of actions taken to correct health inspection violations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Interpret safety regulations for others interested in industrial safety, such as safety engineers, labor representatives, and safety inspectors.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
47%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 77% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 50% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.