Safety Engineer is a professional whose job is related to industrial and systems engineering and focuses on ensuring that life-critical systems behave in line with safety regulations even when their component parts malfunction or fail. Safety Engineer is a person employed by a company or agency who is responsible for making the work site safe for all employees in the company and ensuring that national health and safety standards as well as those provided by the company or local government, are met. Safety Engineers sometimes look at a product in the development stage and the safety it offers to the consumer who will purchase it.
Safety Engineer Eligibility
The minimum educational qualification for becoming a Safety Engineer is a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering or Management and Business Administration from a recognised institute.
Safety Engineer Required Skills
- Safety Engineers must also have a good knowledge of the components used in any design, and component reliability, in particular, to be able to address any safety risks that arise.
- They must be familiar with all the relevant health and safety regulations and have an excellent understanding of system and process safety and of safety and health program management.
- Safety Engineers should have a good knowledge of Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering Design and Mechanics and Industrial Processes.
- They must have a good understanding of psychology in order to assess and anticipate the human factor in potential health and safety issues related to the product or process design.
How to become a Safety Engineer?
One has to follow below-mentioned steps for becoming a Safety Engineer-
Step 1
The candidates those who have completed their 10+2 standard from a recognized board can join any of the undergraduate, Diploma or Certificate course in Fire and Safety.
Step 2
After 12th class, they have to go for the further Degree course with Fire and Safety subjects from recognised colleges/universities. Here, they have to appear in state or all India level entrance tests for getting admission to these courses.
Engineering Degree Courses-
Course Eligibility-
For these courses, they must have been passed 12th class in Science stream.
Some of the Entrance Tests for these Courses-
Step 3
After completing candidates can also go for further Master’s Degree courses as at some of the places it is credited during offering jobs especially for research or managing jobs.
Institutes offering Courses for Safety Engineer
- Indian Institute of Fire Engineering(IIFE), Nagpur
- National Institute of Fire Engineering and Safety Management (NIFESM), Jaipur
- Delhi Institute of Fire Engineering, New Delhi
- Chinmaya Institute of Fire and Safety Engineering (CIFSE), Rourkela
Safety Engineer Job Description
He or she analyzes and tests the product for faults and addresses any health and safety issues that may arise. They are responsible for making changes to design specifications and creating fail-safe systems and generally for proposing safety requirements in product design. Sometimes their job is not to propose modifications to design, but to conduct tests to prove that a finished design or one in a late stage of development is safe.
Safety Engineer Career Prospects
After the completion of fire and safety course, they have immense possibilities for securing a career. A degree in Fire Engineering makes one eligible to join the management cadre in the government or public sector Fire Service. Fire Engineers have always been in great demand by corporations, educational institutions, consulting firms, and government bodies around the world. They get employed in Fire Safety departments in local government bodies, insurance companies, architectural and building designers, project management companies, the aircraft industry, industrial processing units and other places dealing with fire safety concerns.
Mostly manufacturing units such as petroleum refineries; industries dealing with petrochemicals and plastic, fertilizers, and textiles; LPG and LNG handling and bottling plants; and chemical factories and other plants offer enormous job opportunities to Fire Engineers as such products are deemed vulnerable to fire and combustion. Fire Engineers may also work as surveyors in insurance companies.
One can also work with Consulting Engineering firms, fire departments, fire equipment/systems design and sales, government organizations (defence forces, railways, Airports Authority of India, electricity boards, municipal corporations, mines, refineries or petrochemical complexes, hospitals and healthcare, manufacturing, research and testing, educational institutes etc. After gaining experience in India, one can also look for jobs abroad.
Safety Engineer Salary
The starting monthly salary of Fire Engineer is around Rs.25,000 plus other perks. In Abroad especially Gulf where Fire Engineers are in demand will get minimum monthly salary around Rs.50,000 plus other perks.
