NOC 2021 · 22232 · TEER 2
Occupational health and safety specialists
Unit group 22232 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Occupational health and safety specialists review, evaluate and monitor health and safety hazards and develop strategies to prevent, control and eliminate accidents and occupational injuries. They inspect the workplace environments, equipment and practices to ensure compliance with organization and government environment, health and safety standards and regulations. They are employed throughout the public and private sectors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- environmental health and safety coordinator - workplace
- field supervisor - occupational health and safety
- health and safety inspector
- health and safety officer
- health and safety technician
- health and safety technologist
- health officers supervisor
- industrial health officer
- industrial hygiene inspector
- industrial safety officer - occupational health and safety
- labour affairs officer - occupational health and safety
- labour standards officer
- mine safety inspector
- occupational health and safety (OHS) consultant
- occupational health and safety coordinator
- occupational health and safety inspector
- occupational health and safety officer
- occupational health and safety supervisor
- occupational health inspector
- occupational health officer
- occupational health supervisor
- occupational hygiene inspector
- occupational hygiene technician
- occupational hygienist technologist
- occupational safety consultant
- occupational safety coordinator
- occupational safety inspector
- occupational safety officer
- occupational safety specialist
- prevention officer - occupational health and safety
- radiation monitor
- radiation surveyor
- safety officer
- safety practitioner
- safety supervisor - occupational health and safety
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.