How to become an EHS Specialist
Environment, health and safety (adjacent line)
Keeps a data centre’s safety system working with the site’s leaders: risk assessments, permits, isolations, emergencies and learning from incidents.
There’s a page for this role in , with its licences and local details.
What the role does
Keeps the site’s safety system working as a regional partner to site leaders: risk assessment, permits, isolations, emergencies and incident learning. Entry from the operating line needs a recognised safety credential.
What a shift looks like
Office hours across one or more sites. Audits, inspections, investigations, training, and supporting the crews with permits and isolations.
What employers call it
- EHS Manager (colocation and wholesale)
- HSE Engineer (cloud and AI compute)
Skills
The level the role needs in each, on FacilityVR’s five levels from Aware to Authority.
Site safety
- Assess risk and plan safe work Leads others
- Electrical safety awareness Leads others
- Hazards of a critical facility Leads others
- Move equipment and handle loads safely Leads others
- Select and use protective equipment Leads others
- Work under a permit to work Leads others
- Work at height Independent
Safe isolation
- Authorise isolations Independent
Emergency response
- Evacuate and muster Leads others
- Raise the alarm and escalate Leads others
- Report an incident or near miss Leads others
- Respond to a spill or leak Leads others
- Recognise and report a suspected cyber incident Independent
Leadership
- Find root causes and learn from incidents Leads others
Procedures and documents
- Work within change management Independent
Refrigerant handling
- Refrigerant safety and law Independent
UPS and batteries
- Battery room safety Independent
Licences and credentials
Licences depend on the country you work in, and sometimes the state. The role’s page for Australia lists them there.
Ways in and ways on
From another data centre role
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Sources and licences
Occupation codes: 2263 Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals.
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)
- ISCO-08, International Labour Organization, as published in ESCO v1.2.1. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents)