Professionals · code 2263
Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals assess, plan and implement programmes to recognize, monitor and control environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, to ensure safe and healthy working conditions and to prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, radiological and biological agents or ergonomic factors. Tasks include - (a) developing, implementing and reviewing programmes and policies to minimize potential environmental and occupational risks to health and safety; (b) preparing and implementing plans and strategies for the safe, economic and suitable disposal of commercial, industrial, medical and household wastes; (c) implementing prevention programmes and strategies for communicable diseases, food safety, wastewater treatment and disposal systems, recreation and domestic water quality, contaminated and hazardous substances; (d) identifying, reporting and documenting hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in the environment and workplace and advising on compliance with relevant law and regulations; (e) developing, implementing and monitoring programmes to minimize workplace and environmental pollution involving chemical, physical and biological hazards; (f) advising on methods to prevent, eliminate, control, or reduce the exposure of workers, students, the public and the environment to radiological and other hazards; (g) promoting ergonomic principles within the workplace such as matching furniture, equipment and work activities to the needs of employees; (h) providing education, information, training, and advice to persons at all levels on aspects of occupational hygiene and environmental health; (i) recording and investigating injuries and equipment damage, and reporting safety performance; (j) coordinating arrangements for the compensation, rehabilitation and return to work of injured workers. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Environmental health officer - Occupational health and safety adviser - Occupational hygienist - Radiation protection expert Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Environmental protection professionals - 2133 - Specialist medical practitioner (public health) - 2212 - Specialist nurse (public health) - 2221 - Occupational therapist - 2269 - Health inspector - 3257 - Occupational health and safety inspector - 3257 - Sanitarian - 3257 - Sanitary inspector - 3257 Note Professionals who assess, plan and implement programmes to monitor or control the impact of human activities on the environment are classified in Unit Group 2133: Environmental Protection Professionals.
None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 222 of 427 for holding up against AI.
Also known as
- health and safety officer
- food safety specialist
- radiation protection officer
- emergency response coordinator
Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.
against AI Not Exposed
AI could take on 28 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 28 = 72
That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.
out of 100
From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs
and cramped
finger skill 31.3 · hand skill 23.2 · cramped spaces 24.3 · averaged
Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on
Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.
estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement
What this number leaves out This job rates 41.1 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.
The tasks behind the score
The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.
The task AI could do most of scores 36.3, while the average is 28. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.
- 36.3
Preparing and implementing plans and strategies for the safe, economic and suitable disposal of commercial, industrial, medical and household wastes
Low - 36
Providing education, information, training and advice to persons at all levels on aspects of occupational hygiene and environmental health
Low - 28.5
Coordinating arrangements for the compensation, rehabilitation and return to work of injured workers.
Low - 28
Advising on methods to prevent, eliminate, control or reduce the exposure of workers, students, the public and the environment to radiological and other hazards
Low - 26.5
Developing, implementing and reviewing programmes and policies to minimize potential environmental and occupational risks to health and safety
Low - 26.3
Implementing prevention programmes and strategies for communicable diseases, food safety, waste water treatment and disposal systems, recreation and domestic water quality, contaminated and hazardous substances
Low - 26.3
Recording and investigating injuries and equipment damage, and reporting safety performance
Low - 24.5
Identifying, reporting and documenting hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in the environment and workplace and advising on compliance with relevant law and regulations
Very Low - 24.5
Developing, implementing and monitoring programmes to minimize workplace and environmental pollution involving chemical, physical and biological hazards
Very Low - 23.5
Promoting ergonomic principles within the workplace such as matching furniture, equipment and work activities to the needs of employees
Very Low
10 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting
Helped, or replaced?
The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.
One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.
- AI helps you
- 72
- AI does it for you
- 36
Helping wins by 36 points.
estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2513
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