What is an EHS engineer and what does he do?

EHS is the abbreviation of Environment, Health and Safety. It is a management introduced from European and American enterprises, and it is also called HSE abroad.

EHS refers to the comprehensive management of health, safety and environment. The system related to EHS is OHSAS 18000. Compared with ISO 14000 environmental management system and ISO9000 quality system, EHS management system has increased safety content.

EHS management system establishes management methods to eliminate all kinds of accidents, environmental and occupational hazards through systematic prevention management mechanism, so as to minimize the occurrence of accidents, environmental pollution and occupational diseases, and further improve the safety, environment and health performance of enterprises. EHS management system is only a small part of EHS.

Work content:

1, and carry out daily operations according to national laws, regulations and technical requirements on safety production and environmental protection;

2. Supervise and organize various functional departments of the company to implement safety and environmental protection work in production and business activities, minimize the impact of various production, experiment, R&D and business activities of various functional departments of the company on employees and the environment, and actively participate in the transformation projects of various environmental protection projects to ensure compliance with national standards;

3. Maintain, update and implement the company's relevant safety, health and environmental documents and regulations, conduct regular safety inspection and rectification, and conduct safety education, training and record management for employees;

4. Handling and reissue countermeasures for work-related injuries and safety accidents, and supervising the equipment, update and use of labor protection articles.

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Requirements for EHS engineers:

1, college degree or bachelor degree, majoring in safety environment and engineering;

2. More than two years working experience in related industries;

3. Qualified as a safety engineer, familiar with national safety laws and regulations and local environmental protection policies, with a strong sense of responsibility and a serious attitude;

4. Understand ISO/KOOC-0/400/KOOC-0/,OHSAS/KOOC-0/800/KOOC-0/and other related knowledge;

5. Good communication skills and English expression skills.

EHS recruitment requirements mostly require certain work experience, so it is not easy to enter the industry.

Graduates of safety engineering, environmental science and other related majors can start as interns. At the beginning, those who have the strength must enter the internship in large enterprises, because their division of labor will be very detailed, and graduates can start from safety and other links, which is more conducive to accumulating experience and laying a solid foundation for EHS in the future.

With certain work experience, you can take the registered safety engineer examination and obtain the qualification certificate of People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) registered safety engineer, which will be of great help to your future career development.

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