What Does a Safety Assistant Do?

In this section, we take a look at the annual salaries of other professions. Take environmental health specialist for example. On average, the environmental health specialists annual salary is $16,712 higher than what safety assistants make on average every year.

While the salaries between these two careers can be different, they do share some of the same responsibilities. Employees in both safety assistants and environmental health specialists positions are skilled in osha, safety audits, and safety standards.

These skill sets are where the common ground ends though. A safety assistant responsibility is more likely to require skills like "patients," "patient care," "patient safety," and "cpr." Whereas a environmental health specialist requires skills like "environmental health," "public health," "risk assessments," and "regulatory agencies." Just by understanding these different skills you can see how different these careers are.

Environmental health specialists really shine in the manufacturing industry with an average salary of $62,998. Whereas safety assistants tend to make the most money in the manufacturing industry with an average salary of $41,586.

The education levels that environmental health specialists earn is a bit different than that of safety assistants. In particular, environmental health specialists are 7.7% more likely to graduate with a Master's Degree than a safety assistant. Additionally, they're 0.1% more likely to earn a Doctoral Degree.

Next up, we have the public health internship profession to look over. This career brings along a lower average salary when compared to a safety assistant annual salary. In fact, public health interns salary difference is $90 lower than the salary of safety assistants per year.

A similarity between the two careers of safety assistants and public health interns are a few of the skills associated with both roles. We used resumes from both professions to find that both use skills like "patients," "osha," and "safety audits. "

While some skills are similar in these professions, other skills aren't so similar. For example, several resumes showed us that safety assistant responsibilities requires skills like "patient care," "patient safety," "cpr," and "dot." But a public health internship might use skills, such as, "environmental health," "public health," "risk assessments," and "epa."

On the topic of education, public health interns earn higher levels of education than safety assistants. In general, they're 10.2% more likely to graduate with a Master's Degree and 0.1% more likely to earn a Doctoral Degree.

The third profession we take a look at is health specialist. On an average scale, these workers bring in higher salaries than safety assistants. In fact, they make a $9,663 higher salary per year.

By looking over several safety assistants and health specialists resumes, we found that both roles utilize similar skills, such as "patients," "patient care," and "cpr." But beyond that the careers look very different.

As mentioned, these two careers differ between other skills that are required for performing the work exceedingly well. For example, gathering from safety assistants resumes, they are more likely to have skills like "patient safety," "safety audits," "dot," and "safety standards." But a health specialist might have skills like "health education," "public health," "data collection," and "veterans."

Additionally, health specialists earn a higher salary in the government industry compared to other industries. In this industry, they receive an average salary of $56,603. Additionally, safety assistants earn an average salary of $41,586 in the manufacturing industry.

Health specialists are known to earn higher educational levels when compared to safety assistants. Additionally, they're 10.7% more likely to graduate with a Master's Degree, and 1.7% more likely to earn a Doctoral Degree.

Now, we'll look at health and safety coordinators, who generally average a higher pay when compared to safety assistants annual salary. In fact, the difference is about $15,388 per year.

While both safety assistants and health and safety coordinators complete day-to-day tasks using similar skills like cpr, osha, and safety audits, the two careers also vary in other skills.

While some skills are shared by these professions, there are some differences to note. "patients," "patient care," "patient safety," and "vital signs" are skills that have shown up on safety assistants resumes. Additionally, health and safety coordinator uses skills like environmental health, rehabilitation, state regulations, and epa on their resumes.

Health and safety coordinators reach similar levels of education when compared to safety assistants. The difference is that they're 4.8% more likely to earn a Master's Degree more, and 0.2% less likely to graduate with a Doctoral Degree.