Product Safety Engineers
Also called:
Product Safety and Standards Engineer, Product Safety Engineer, Product Safety Manager, System Safety Engineer
What they do:
Develop and conduct tests to evaluate product safety levels and recommend measures to reduce or eliminate hazards.
On the job, you would:
- Investigate causes of accidents, injuries, or illnesses related to product usage to develop solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.
- Conduct research to evaluate safety levels for products.
- Report accident investigation findings.
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- design
Arts and Humanities
Safety and Government
- law and government
- public safety and security
Business
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Basic Skills
- reading work related information
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Visual Understanding
- see hidden patterns
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
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People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Analytical Thinking
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Cooperation
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You might use software like this on the job:
Analytical or scientific software
- Design Safety Engineering Designsafe
- Fault tree analysis FTA software
Development environment software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- National Instruments LabVIEW
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Mathsoft Mathcad
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bachelor's degree or
certificate after college
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$86,720
per year, on average
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