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re: How does one break into the offshore HSE/Safety game?
Posted on 4/9/19 at 1:03 am to MrSmith65
Posted on 4/9/19 at 1:03 am to MrSmith65
Trust me my man. I make 200k a year. I was offered a job in a plant in Beaumont that is coming up next year it will be a 5 year project. The pay 60 a hour prediem 150 a day. Add that up on 6 days a week. I turned it down. That would come up to right at 244k a year. Very easy to make 200k a year. You just have to travel. You can’t sit in an office and make that money. But trust me I make that much.
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Posted on 4/9/19 at 1:07 am to MrSmith65
Also pipeline pay. I was working for a company paying 3500 a week. If you stay busy you add that up that right at 150k a year with some time off. I consult for Exxon on the compressor and pipeline side I make 940 a day with prediem. Now that while I am on the job. If I work 10 months out of the year it’s 225k a year.
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Posted on 4/9/19 at 6:51 am to safetyman
Safety first.
This post was edited on 4/9/19 at 7:16 am
Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:21 am to safetyman
Soooo
Any advice on what kind of certifications I need to seek?
And where?
Any advice on what kind of certifications I need to seek?
And where?
Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:22 am to michael corleone
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There is a guy in Thibodaux that owns , leases or otherwise has right of first refusal on all in the boom and response vessels within 1000 miles of the gulf. I suggest that you marry mom, sister or daughter
Who are you referring to? I’ve worked in that industry and know the big players and their companies and this claim of “first right of refusal” seems a bit sketchy.
Environmental clean up companies are hired by the operators who caused the spill, so to say one guy gets the first call from EVERY operator that needs boom or vessels is absurd IMO.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:24 am to Brazos
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I’ve always heard work on land is like the Wild West compared to offshore as far as safety goes.
100,000% correct.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:28 am to MrSmith65
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Lol sure. I make 200k a year in safety. You have to travel but there is money in safety.
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No you don't.
I know lots of people making in excess of 200K in Health and Safety. They are all Certified Industrial Hygienists with Masters Degrees... but there are lots of them out there.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:32 am to madmaxvol
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They are all Certified Industrial Hygienists with Masters Degrees
You don’t need all of that education to do safety in O&G and make that kind of money. It’s all dependent on your willingness to travel (especially to some pretty sketchy locations) and be away from your family.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:43 am to Corkfather
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They are all Certified Industrial Hygienists with Masters Degrees
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You don’t need all of that education to do safety in O&G and make that kind of money. It’s all dependent on your willingness to travel (especially to some pretty sketchy locations) and be away from your family.
Yes...I should have added that these aren't even O&G consultants...these are general industry/manufacturing consultants that are making over 200K with the certs.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:06 am to yellowfin
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No money in safety
Nothing to add to how to break in, but I got a couple of family members do that safety thing and those bastards make way too much money
There is money to be had, good luck breaking in. The older one worked his way up, the younger got in because he was related to the older one.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:10 am to DarthRebel
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Nothing to add to how to break in, but I got a couple of family members do that safety thing and those bastards make way too much money
The ones that make money do it in the same fashion that you can make money doing almost anything.....do it in a condition most don't want to do (i.e. spend tons of time away from home working in conditions most don't want to like offshore), or put in your time and climb up to a high management position.
Our safety guy sitting in the office working 9 to 5 isn't sniffing a 200k salary. Now if he manages all safety for North America, then yeah...
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:13 am to KG6
Yeah.
Out safety consultants that stay with the rigs make very good money, but they work long hours and are away from home all the time.
The in-house safety guy next to my office probably doesn’t make $100k.
Out safety consultants that stay with the rigs make very good money, but they work long hours and are away from home all the time.
The in-house safety guy next to my office probably doesn’t make $100k.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 9:50 am to TDcline
First thing I tell anyone who wants to get into safety. Start at the bottom from labor then move up. Spend 5 years in the field first. That way you understand what it’s like to be at the bottom. You can relate to what they going thru. Second to be a good safety guy you have to be good at communicating. You have to know the right way to approach a person. We don’t like guys who come to job sites with no field experience with a safety degree. They make a bad name for us safety guys.
Remember you will not start off making 200k a year. I started off making 45k a year.
First thing I did was I went get COSST. it’s a week long class. After you been in safety for 5 years you can take a few different avenues. You can either start working towards your CSP or CHSO. I went the CHSO route. You go to the TEEX website and figure out what best fits you. That’s what I did. Everyone goes different ways. Research on the internet what best fits you.
Remember you will not start off making 200k a year. I started off making 45k a year.
First thing I did was I went get COSST. it’s a week long class. After you been in safety for 5 years you can take a few different avenues. You can either start working towards your CSP or CHSO. I went the CHSO route. You go to the TEEX website and figure out what best fits you. That’s what I did. Everyone goes different ways. Research on the internet what best fits you.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 10:07 am to safetyman
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First thing I tell anyone who wants to get into safety. Start at the bottom from labor then move up. Spend 5 years in the field first. That way you understand what it’s like to be at the bottom. You can relate to what they going thru. Second to be a good safety guy you have to be good at communicating. You have to know the right way to approach a person. We don’t like guys who come to job sites with no field experience with a safety degree. They make a bad name for us safety guys.
I started straight out of undergrad working as an IH tech for a consulting company hanging pumps on boilermakers. Working as a road-warrior for a decade or so, really helps. I will say that working for a consulting company in a tech capacity puts you in a wider variety of industries than starting out on the bottom at a single company. The problem is...if you aren't customer-focused, and if you aren't a quick learner you won't make it.
By the time I was 30, I had IH experience in aluminum smelting/casting, OSB manufacturing, Tier II automotive, fossil fuel power plants, wheel and tire manufacturing, cast iron pipe manufacturing, plastic extrusion, construction/demolition...and remediation (HAZWOPER).
Posted on 4/9/19 at 10:50 am to madmaxvol
Another thing, make damn sure you want to be in safety...because it’s a butch to get out of. Took me over 10 years to fight off the safety engineer title.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 11:14 am to TDcline
Get in the 7 and 7 classes at Nicholls. All those baws get jobs.
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