emergency response coordinatortohealth and safety officer
A emergency response coordinator already meets 26% of what the health and safety officer role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.
26%
71.7/ 100
1 Share of the health and safety officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the emergency response coordinator profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A health and safety officer role treats 4 of its required skills as things a emergency response coordinator already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- advise on risk management
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- environmental legislation
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A health and safety officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a emergency response coordinator background worth leading with.
- already held educate on emergency management communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held advise on environmental risk management systems information skills
- already held test safety strategies information skills
- already held advise on risk management information skills
- already held pollution prevention engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held health, safety and hygiene legislation services
All 10 carried skills, including the 4 the health and safety officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 28 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held communicate health and safety measures required
- required, not held advise on conflict management required
- required, not held educate employees on occupational hazards required
- required, not held present reports required
- optional, not held apply conflict management optional
- optional, not held conduct research interview optional
- optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
- optional, not held liaise with managers optional
- required, not held monitor employee's health required
- required, not held draw up risk assessment required
- required, not held monitor legislation developments required
- optional, not held perform health assessment autonomously optional
- optional, not held conduct workplace audits optional
- optional, not held make health, safety and environment assessments optional
- required, not held quality standards required
- optional, not held project management optional
- optional, not held audit techniques optional
- optional, not held employment law optional
- required, not held follow standards for machinery safety required
- optional, not held issue licences optional
- optional, not held observe confidentiality optional
- required, not held personal protective equipment required
- optional, not held occupational health optional
- required, not held technical drawings required
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a health and safety officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 communicate health and safety measures skill · sector specific
- 02 follow standards for machinery safety skill · sector specific
- 03 monitor employee's health skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 10 skills that carry over
- already held advise on risk management skill
- already held ensure compliance with environmental legislation skill
- already held environmental legislation knowledge
- already held health, safety and hygiene legislation knowledge
- already held advise on environmental risk management systems skill
- already held educate on emergency management skill
- already held perform risk analysis skill
- already held pollution prevention knowledge
- already held test safety strategies skill
- already held use different communication channels skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- required, not held assessment of risks and threats required
- optional, not held identify policy breach optional
- optional, not held perform project management optional
- optional, not held provide improvement strategies optional
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held identify policy breach optional
- optional, not held occupational health optional
- optional, not held perform health assessment autonomously optional
- optional, not held project management optional
- optional, not held apply conflict management optional
- optional, not held audit techniques optional
- optional, not held conduct research interview optional
- optional, not held conduct workplace audits optional
- optional, not held employment law optional
- optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
- optional, not held issue licences optional
- optional, not held liaise with managers optional
- optional, not held make health, safety and environment assessments optional
- optional, not held observe confidentiality optional
- optional, not held perform project management optional
- optional, not held provide improvement strategies optional
15 held skills the health and safety officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise on safety improvements skill
- not needed by the target role conduct fire safety inspections skill
- not needed by the target role develop strategy to solve problems skill
- not needed by the target role educate public on fire safety skill
- not needed by the target role ensure compliance with policies skill
- not needed by the target role estimate damage skill
- not needed by the target role first response knowledge
- not needed by the target role handle veterinary emergencies skill
- not needed by the target role identify risk of flooding skill
- not needed by the target role manage emergency evacuation plans skill
- not needed by the target role manage emergency procedures skill
- not needed by the target role operational tactics for emergency responses knowledge
- not needed by the target role pollution legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role undertake inspections skill
- not needed by the target role write work-related reports skill
8 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held assessment of risks and threats required
- required, not held personal protective equipment required
- required, not held quality standards required
- required, not held technical drawings required
- optional, not held occupational health optional
- optional, not held project management optional
- optional, not held audit techniques optional
- optional, not held employment law optional
Other moves recorded from emergency response coordinator
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.