What is meant by a Health, Safety and Environmental Professional (HSE)?
How are the opportunities for these professionals? RAMAKRISHNA Hyderabad It is the assessment and management of environmental influences on human health. This entails the study of food safety and hygiene (including production, distribution and fitness for human consumption), occupational health and safety (including investigation and control of work-related ill health), communicable disease (including investigation and control), the built environment (including homes, workplaces and public spaces) and environmental protection (including the control of the air, land and water pollution). Many graduates work as Environmental Protection Officers (EPOs) working for Environment Protection Agencies. Graduates take up positions as health and safety executives, and so on with the food manufacturing industry, public water utilities, waste management sector, housing associations and environmental consultancies. There is increasing recognition by employers in the private sector that graduates in
