health safety and environmental manager
Code 2263.4
The HSE / health and safety manager (experto en prevención de riesgos, jefe de prevención o HSE) prevents workplace accidents and illness: identifies hazards, controls risk and sustains safety culture. Use this Job Dictionary profile to answer «what does an HSE manager do» and build the job descriptor.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Evaluación de impacto en salud y calidad de la atención
- Ley de Portabilidad y Responsabilidad de Seguros de Salud (HIPAA)
- Leyes y regulaciones que se aplican a la salud digital en América Latina
- Principios de gestión del cambio en el sector sanitario
- business analysis
- assessment of risks and threats
- risk management
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
- environmental legislation
- pollution legislation
- framework for a safety management system
- health and safety regulations
- strategic planning
- pollution prevention
- production processes
- organisational resilience
- health and safety in the workplace
- audit techniques
Skills and competences
- Asesorar sobre regulaciones de salud
- Gestionar proyectos en un entorno de salud
- Interactuar con regulaciones de salud
- advise on government policy compliance
- advise on sustainability solutions
- liaise with government officials
- liaise with industry experts
- communicate health and safety measures
- liaise with managers
- shape corporate culture
- develop contingency plans for emergencies
- develop training programmes
- evaluate employees work
- evaluate company needs
- promote sustainability
- plan health and safety procedures
- promote health and safety
- make health, safety and environment assessments
- perform risk analysis
- implement strategic planning
- abide by business ethical code of conducts
- monitor contractor performance
- monitor legislation developments
Transversal competences
- Leyes y regulaciones locales que protegen la privacidad de los datos en el ámbito de la salud
- coordinate environmental efforts
- manage health and safety standards
- manage environmental impact of operations
- educate employees on occupational hazards
- mostrar un liderazgo ejemplar en la organización
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What to assess for this role
Assess field influence, regulatory rigour, clear communication and balance between production and safety.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does an HSE / safety manager do?
- Identifies hazards, proposes controls, trains people, investigates incidents and upholds occupational health and safety standards.
- Is prevencionista the same as HSE?
- In Chile the everyday title is prevencionista de riesgos; HSE covers the same space, often with more environmental focus.
- What to assess when hiring?
- Credibility on site, willingness to stop work on serious risk and serious indicator tracking.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences