Hey,

I have a bachelors in safety management and minor in fire science. My current job is safety specialist at a warehouse. Prior to that I was a SSHO in construction for 7 years.

After leaving construction safety to take a safety job with no travel due to my family growing I feel trapped and I really want to get back into a safety environment that I can apply my skill set and experience to. I have many certifications and I’m also making around 60k a year where I’m at and 100k when I was in construction. I just wanted to know where you all felt a good place to start looking was as I just had a come to Jesus moment with my current job after the micro managing, my department playing favorites on who they promote, lack of care for safety culture at my site, manager putting my promotion document on hold telling me we are too short staffed to loose you (when they send multiple people to other sites to grow and add that to their resumes, etc) I’m just tired of going above and beyond at my current safety role for nothing. The benefits are truly the only thing preventing me from just up and going out as a contracted safety professional so I thought I’d reach out to the safety community for thoughts and opinions.