Analysis of industry Needs for Occupational Hygiene

Post / Professional and Technical
Competencies / Business Management
Competencies / Industry Knowledge
Group/Regional Advisor /
  • Credible professionally & externally influential in profession and regulatory development.
  • Aware of global/regional issues and regulatory regime
  • Awareness of emerging issues and research on regional or global basis
  • Able to develop strategic plans aligned to organisational needs
  • Able to initiate & drive complex and innovative programmes
  • Ability to analyse complex data and issues
  • Engagement with academia & industry associations
  • Good cross-professional relationships
  • Demonstrates good judgement of risk and ability to make sound decisions from limited information
  • Understanding of product stewardship, epidemiology and environmental health issues
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  • Strategy & planning
  • Financial management
  • Development of business cases
  • Manages business risk and impact
  • Programme co-ordination
  • Change management
  • Project management skills
  • How to get things done
  • Performance management
  • Recruitment & selection
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  • Awareness of global trends in industry and technology
  • Understand the value chain
  • Extensive knowledge of organisation, business strategy and drivers

Site professional /
  • Comprehensive knowledge and practice of occupational hygiene
  • Understands, assesses and manages risks to health
  • Able to design and manage an occupational hygiene programme for a large and complex business.
  • Analyses and solves problems
  • Interprets complex data
  • Clear recognition and understanding of priorities
  • Initiates and leads occupational hygiene projects
  • Professionally active
  • Continually develops own professional skills
  • Involvement with emerging issues and national legislation
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  • Shows leadership abilities
  • Able to influence business managers
  • Empathy for personal and business impacts
  • Awareness of business imperatives
  • Adheres to professional code of ethics
  • Effective communicator of technical and sensitive information
  • Teacher, mentor and champion
  • Interacts with regulators, employees, managers and public
  • Objective and factual report writing and data presentation
  • Managing a budget
  • Managing people
  • Knowledge of organisation & key business processes
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  • Knowledge of processes, operations and products

Technician /
  • Methods for sampling, analysis, testing and control of the working environment
  • Able to document and report findings and observations
  • Follows complex procedures and gets reliable results
  • Knowledge of current regulatory requirements
  • Understands roles of related professionals (eg. occupational health, chemical analysts)
  • Recognises issues that need to be referred and seeks advice when appropriate
  • Appropriate IT skills
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  • Interpersonal skills and ability to establish confidence and trust of people being surveyed
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  • Knowledge of plant & operations

Site contact /
  • Understands basic occupational hygiene principles
  • Recognises and aware of issues relevant to own workplace
  • Familiar with relevant local regulations
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  • Able to act as advocate and focal point
  • Recognises own limitations and knows where to go for help
  • Know local safety rules and procedures
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  • Knowledge of local needs and culture

Managers & Operators /
  • Awareness of occupational hygiene hazards and relevance to their job
  • Means to protect themselves and others
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  • Visibility of business benefits
  • Know where to go for help