I have a new son and don’t want to be away from my wife and baby as they are pretty cool and I like hanging out with them
I work in construction and am lucky I don’t have to travel at all, as it’s all on one sight for this project.
Lots of jobs say along the lines 20-50% travel, is this out of city but within a day? Or out of state?
What industries keep you in the same metro?
Work in construction safety and we have had 4 of our porta johns disgustingly vandalized by someone who smears feces all over the walls and writes profanities using said feces. Not to be graphic but the vandal will also draw crude stick figure scenes that have honestly impressed (and terrified) me given his chosen medium. While he (or she?) is very obviously disturbed, the artistry and creativity of these crude and disgusting scenes commands my respect, and the boldness to throw aside all rules of decency has also impressed me, truly a renegade. I have checked people’s hands around the site to see if I can observe any trace feces from the despicable act, but it has not yielded any results, this leads me to think my criminal is using gloves to commit the bio crime. This level of thoughtfulness to not getting caught impresses, and frightens me. I have probably shared a casual conversation about sports, weather, Family, and movies with the perpetrator, only for them to defile our restrooms.
Now that’s great and all but what I wasn’t expecting is that it would become my responsibility to document and attempt to solve. In none of my professional exams or education was I taught about this particular area of ehs, and I’m not entirely sure this should be my responsibility. Ive had the idea to use cameras on the outside to try and solve this mystery, my bosses have entertained the idea as the incidents continue to happen, but I still have not received said equipment (this has made me suspicious of the upper level management). In my safety briefings I have pleaded for the vandal to stop, but it seems to have only emboldened them, and resulted in mean nicknames given to me at work, such as “poopoo detective”.
Is this something I should even be expected to take responsibility for? Has this happened to anyone else?
What’s the day to day thing like for a specialist type post? What are the hours like? Does it go by quick?
What kind of work are you doing mostly? Is it really as bad as people say? Does the pay help?
Nobody listens to me, Im treated as a burden, it’s also very easy to get boxed in and not develop skills in better paying ehs subfields.
Just my rant, annoying how much of the market is construction safety jobs, like 1/4 jobs seems like to me
What certs do they like? What’s the hours like? How would you describe it?
Love the field. IH is what I imagined scientists did as a kid. I love keeping people safe, and while I do a lot of that at my current job as a ehs specialist, I’d like to get the best cert in the game but feel like its out of reach due to not having a engineering degree, and having only a 3.3 gpa for my unfergrad
If anyone has advice, I’d love to hear it
Just thought I’d share a bit of my journey. bachelors in geology kinda fell into safety on accident but I love it. Work in civil qa at the moment with larger than normal safety responsibilities. Just passed my chst and planning to shift to a safety specialist role at the same company after my paternity leave.
I expressed interest in getting my cih and getting more involved with atmosphere testing in confined spaces, and my company agreed to let me take part in this work. It is my opinion that construction safety will move into a mandatory csp for all manager roles and for higher paying jobs (director, regional) cih will be heavily sought after.
Is this a common line of thought? Anybody else in the construction or utility safety worlds done this before?
I do not like construction. Hardly any work life balance and I’d rather be with my wife and newborn son. I have asp and 2 years construction experience and a bs in enviro science, I’d like something with regular hours, any advice is appreciated
BLS says ehs is booming, 10-12 percent growth, but if that what everyone is seeing? I see a couple new jobs a week and I’m not sure if that is as gang busters as the stats say.
For people recently hired how long did it take you? What industry is hiring in your area? How do you feel about the future of safety?
I’ve only ever worked construction, but I wonder what manufacturing, government, bio, and mining is like!
Share your stories plz!
Passed it. Honestly harder than I thought. Pretty vague questions and hardly any formulas provided. Took 4 hours.
Thank you to this community for sharing your knowledge and experience, it helped me immensely.
Took all 1300 pocket prep questions and averaged a 87 with all domains above 75. Took exam core practice tests and got 83 on both.
I’d happily accept any advice on what to do to be the most prepared.
All is welcome.
I’ve heard they provide them, or they don’t, also that bcsp will mix up units, just wanting to get an idea.
Basically my job was just involving temporary water infrastructure at an airport construction project and making sure leaks or spills didn’t mess up the infrastructure or create hazards for the public. I’d spend the whole day explaining water use rules, inspecting the hoses and sources, looking for leaks or people being careless, and helping route the hoses away from critical infrastructure. I logged and filled out incident reports when big spills happened, so to me it seemed just like any other safety coordinator job (in my limited experience). I said 80% of my duties were safety related and on the application and I was honest. AI said because of my limited scope of work it’s unlikely to be accepted, so I don’t feel great.
If they reject me it’s 160$ down the drain so that sucks but whatever I guess.
Anyone ever been in this situation?
Just wanting to get more understanding about the biggest sources/industried of ih jobs.
Thanks to advice from this sub I’m now a front man on the air monitoring program for my construction safety job. I also do noise dosimetry too so I can get my cih requirements filled.
It seems like such niche field and nobody I talk to about it really knows what it is.
I just want to know how others got into the field, when they did, and how they explain it to their friends and family.
I know it’s not really important but just for fun how would you classify ehs and safety?
I have a bs in geology and asp. Hoping to get into a space where I can start working towards my cih. I’m worried not having an engineering degree will hurt my chances, figured I’d feel around.
I’ve seen a lot of people say that pocket prep was different and the questions looked a lot different. Can anyone elaborate on how different they look? And in what ways?
Hello all,
I have almost finished up my graduate certificate from Murray state in industrial hygiene, I also have a bs in geology from CU Boulder.
I’ve been working at a large construction site as a ehs engineer, mostly doing scaffolding work, public health analysis, crane oversight, things of that nature.
I realized in order to qualify for cih I need ih experience that’s 50% of my duties, id like to get started on it now