Health and safety engineers are responsible for developing and maintaining the safe work systems for employees and others.
The scope of a safety engineer is the development and maintenance of the integrated management system.
They need to have a fundamental knowledge of safety, contract law, tort, environmental law, policy, health, construction, computer science, engineering, labour hire, plant hire, communication and psychology.
In particular, they have to be able to "sell" the failures that they discover to inspectors/ auditors, as well as the attendant expense and time needed to correct them.
It is common for a safety engineer to consider registers, plant and equipment, training and competency problems in the same day.