Health and safety

Health and safety specialist CV: example and template

This example is for health and safety specialists, inspectors and senior specialists at manufacturing plants, building sites, logistics and service companies, and for health and safety technicians and people after postgraduate studies in occupational safety.

The employer wants to know at which sites you look after safety, how many people your work covers and how you run training, risk assessment and accident investigations. We show you how to describe this on your CV.

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Example CV: health and safety specialist

All the details in this example are fictional. Treat it as a model of layout and wording, and replace the content with your own experience.

Henryka Lewandowska

Senior health and safety specialist

Gliwice +48 123 456 789 henryka.lewandowska@example.com

Professional profile

Senior health and safety specialist with 10 years of experience at a manufacturing plant and a construction company. I am responsible for the safety of about 700 employees: I run training, occupational risk assessment, workplace inspections and accident investigations. I implemented ISO 45001, and accidents at the plant fell by about 40% in 3 years.

Work experience

Senior health and safety specialist

02.2020 - present

Manufacturing plant, metal industry, Gliwice

  • Safety of about 700 employees on 3 shifts.
  • Induction and periodic training, about 400 people a year.
  • Occupational risk assessment for 60 workstations and workstation instructions.
  • Accident investigations, root cause analysis and preventive action; about 40% fewer accidents in 3 years.
  • Implementing ISO 45001 and working with the labour inspectorate and auditors.

Health and safety inspector

05.2016 - 01.2020

Construction company, Katowice

  • Safety inspections on building sites.
  • Health and safety plans for sites.
  • Training for subcontractors.

Education

Engineer's degree, safety engineering

2011 - 2015

Silesian University of Technology

Skills

  • Health and safety training
  • Occupational risk assessment
  • Accident investigations
  • Workplace inspections
  • ISO 45001
  • Safety law and work with the labour inspectorate

Qualifications and training

  • ISO 45001 internal auditor, 2021
  • Health and safety training methods course, 2019
  • Workstation ergonomics training, 2024

Languages

  • English: B2

Additional information

  • Driving licence, category B

I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for the purposes necessary to carry out the recruitment process, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR).

How to write a health and safety specialist CV

Professional summary

Write which sites you work at, how many employees your work covers and what your main tasks are: training, risk assessment, inspections, accidents. Add one result, for example fewer accidents or a system implemented. Put your qualifications in the summary, because in Poland they are set out in the rules on the health and safety service.

Graduate of postgraduate studies in occupational health and safety with 3 years of experience as an administrative specialist at a manufacturing plant. I helped with safety training and records. I am looking for work as a health and safety inspector.

Experience: duties and achievements

Describe sites, the number of employees, training, risk assessment, inspections, accidents and systems. Show results, for example fewer accidents or less absence. Add your work with the labour inspectorate, auditors and management.

Weaker: Safety training.

Better: Induction and periodic training, about 400 people a year.

Weaker: Risk assessment.

Better: Occupational risk assessment for 60 workstations and workstation instructions.

Weaker: Accidents.

Better: Accident investigations, root cause analysis and preventive action; about 40% fewer accidents in 3 years.

Skills worth listing

List training, risk assessment, investigations, inspections, systems and law. In your soft skills show assertiveness, persuasion and calm after an accident.

Professional skills

  • Training
  • Risk assessment
  • Accident investigations
  • Inspections
  • Management systems
  • Regulations

Personal skills

  • Assertiveness
  • Persuasion
  • Calm
  • Public speaking
  • Accuracy

Qualifications and training

List your health and safety education or postgraduate studies, training methods and ISO 45001 auditor courses and sector training. In Poland the qualifications and experience needed for each health and safety service role are set out in a regulation.

Health and safety specialist CV with no experience

Describe health and safety school or studies, placements and work at a plant where you dealt with safety. Add a training methods course.

Start as an inspector or junior specialist. Experience in the health and safety service is needed to move up to senior roles.

Tailoring your CV to the job offer

A manufacturing plant looks for risk assessment and work with machinery, a construction company for site inspections and safety plans, and a service company for training and office ergonomics. Move to the top what the job ad is about.

The most common mistakes on a health and safety CV

Questions and answers

What should a health and safety specialist put on a CV?

Sites, the number of employees, training, risk assessment, inspections, accidents, systems, results, qualifications and training.

What qualifications does a health and safety specialist need in Poland?

They are set out in the regulation on the health and safety service: suitable education or postgraduate studies and experience for each role.

Can you start in health and safety with no experience?

Yes, as an inspector or junior specialist after health and safety school or studies.

How do you show a health and safety specialist's results?

Give the fall in accidents, systems implemented and the number of people trained.

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