Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

healthcare inspectortohealth and safety officer

A healthcare inspector already meets 31% of what the health and safety officer role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From healthcare inspector
31%
Overlap1
To health and safety officer
10 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
66.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

31%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

66.9/ 100

1 Share of the health and safety officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the healthcare inspector 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

Why this move works

A health and safety officer role treats 6 of its required skills as things a healthcare inspector already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • advise on risk management
  • communicate health and safety measures
  • draw up risk assessment
  • educate employees on occupational hazards
  • health, safety and hygiene legislation
  • present reports

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

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 healthcare inspector background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held draw up risk assessment information skills
  • already held educate employees on occupational hazards communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held communicate health and safety measures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held identify policy breach management skills
  • already held conduct workplace audits information skills
  • already held provide improvement strategies management skills

All 10 carried skills, including the 6 the health and safety officer role treats as required.

Table 3

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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 information skills 2 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held monitor employee's health required
  • required, not held monitor legislation developments required
  • optional, not held perform health assessment autonomously optional
  • optional, not held advise on environmental risk management systems optional
  • optional, not held make health, safety and environment assessments optional
  • optional, not held perform risk analysis optional
  • optional, not held test safety strategies optional
02 business, administration and law 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held environmental legislation required
  • required, not held quality standards required
  • optional, not held project management optional
  • optional, not held audit techniques optional
  • optional, not held employment law optional
03 assisting and caring 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held follow standards for machinery safety required
  • required, not held ensure compliance with environmental legislation required
  • optional, not held issue licences optional
  • optional, not held observe confidentiality optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held advise on conflict management required
  • optional, not held apply conflict management optional
  • optional, not held educate on emergency management optional
  • optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
  • optional, not held liaise with managers optional
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
05 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held technical drawings required
  • optional, not held pollution prevention optional
06 services 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held personal protective equipment required
  • optional, not held occupational health optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

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.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 10 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held advise on risk management skill
  • already held communicate health and safety measures skill
  • already held draw up risk assessment skill
  • already held educate employees on occupational hazards skill
  • already held health, safety and hygiene legislation knowledge
  • already held present reports skill
  • already held conduct research interview skill
  • already held conduct workplace audits skill
  • already held identify policy breach skill
  • already held provide improvement strategies skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required
  • required, not held assessment of risks and threats required
08 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform project management optional
18 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held occupational health optional
  • optional, not held perform health assessment autonomously optional
  • optional, not held project management optional
  • optional, not held advise on environmental risk management systems optional
  • optional, not held apply conflict management optional
  • optional, not held audit techniques optional
  • optional, not held educate on emergency management 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 perform risk analysis optional
  • optional, not held pollution prevention optional
  • optional, not held test safety strategies optional
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
21 held skills the health and safety officer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on medical records skill
  • not needed by the target role advise policy makers in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role collect statistics on medical records skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct contact tracing interviews skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure compliance with healthcare regulations skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases skill
  • not needed by the target role examine healthcare facility skill
  • not needed by the target role health care legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health care system knowledge
  • not needed by the target role healthcare administration knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify hazards in the workplace skill
  • not needed by the target role implement policy in healthcare practices skill
  • not needed by the target role infection control knowledge
  • not needed by the target role inspect staff skill
  • not needed by the target role manage infection control in the facility skill
  • not needed by the target role medical studies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role medical terminology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role participate in medical inventory control skill
  • not needed by the target role provide guidance on infectious disease skill
  • not needed by the target role safe management of medicines knowledge
10 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held assessment of risks and threats required
  • required, not held environmental legislation 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
  • optional, not held pollution prevention optional
Index

Other moves recorded from healthcare inspector

Full index of moves from healthcare inspector

Note

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.