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ATS resume keywords for Safety, Health & Environment

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Safety, Health & Environment resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • ehs
  • hse
  • risk assessment
  • hira
  • hazop
  • permit to work
  • toolbox talk
  • near miss
  • incident investigation
  • root cause analysis
  • ltifr
  • ppe
  • iso 45001
  • iso 14001
  • safety audit
  • mock drill
  • fire safety
  • work at height
  • confined space
  • behaviour based safety
  • statutory compliance
  • safety training
  • job safety analysis
  • emergency preparedness

The eight questions for Safety, Health & Environment

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many sites, plants or projects do you cover?
  2. 2.How many people are on site under your safety remit?
  3. 3.How many safety audits do you run or support in a year?
  4. 4.What is your LTIFR or incident rate, and what was it when you started?
  5. 5.How many toolbox talks or safety trainings do you deliver a month?
  6. 6.How many near misses were reported last year?
  7. 7.How many permits to work do you issue or approve in a month?
  8. 8.What was the largest shutdown or project you covered, by headcount or duration?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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