I get asked quite a lot to provide information on Health & Safety Careers in Canada. I know how difficult it can be to know where to start when seeking employment internationally, so for those of you who are interested, I am offering up a recent response I gave to a fellow on this forum. If you have comments, questions or would like to add to the discussion, please feel free to add them or contact me directly. Hopefully by starting the discussion we can build understanding and start some cross-boarder connections. Best Regards, Mustang Randall CRSP, Grad ISOH "...Canada's Health and Safety market is pretty strong and to be completely honest, somewhat immature. By immature I mean that quite often employers are not really sure what tertiary qualifications they are looking for in a Health & Safety Professional. It has definitely been getting better over the last few years with most employers looking for candidates with a CRSP or who are eligible to get the CRSP within 1-2 years, especially with larger employers and those in the construction, energy, environmental and public service industries. The CRSP designation is arguably the most visible qualification, primarily because it is national and because it transcends a single industry. The process is lengthy, similar (but not at all the same) to the CMIOSH process in the UK. The whole process is best outlined in at www.bcrsp.ca. Based on what you told me in your email, you should meet the professional practice requirement of 3 years and the Education requirement of a minimum of a one-year OH&S related Certificate. I would suspect that the BCRSP is a little more familiar with the qualifications you can obtain in the UK/Europe since they just singed a memorandum of understanding with IOSH. At worst, I would suspect that they might ask you for a course overview to determine if your NEBOSH qualification meets their requirements. Lastly, they look at all the other Health and Safety training you have taken over the last 5 years. The only challenge with this for most people is finding all of their certificates from every little course. After all this your application is reviewed, you have brief interview with a screening panel of 2 CRSPs, and then take the approx. 300 question multiple choice exam. With all of this said, I'm not sure what qualifications you carry with IOSH, but if you carry CMIOSH status, I believe the Memorandum of Understanding allows you to skip everything and go right to the exam. Ultimately the CRSP will help you in job search and open up more opportunities (especially in more intermediate and senior roles) but it is not an absolute must to get in. Now on to jobs, the best money for Junior to Intermediate Health & Safety Positions is made in the mining and Oil and Gas industries in Canada. These jobs are scattered throughout Canada but usually the best paying junior jobs are in places with higher costs of living like Yellowknife and Ft. McMurray, with a few in Saskatchewan which is a bit cheaper. I live and work in Alberta (Calgary) so I am defiantly more familiar with the Western Canada health and safety scene. I would say that the economy is better out west, but I imagine that it wont be too much longer before the Off-shore Oil & Gas scene off the east coast really starts to pick-up. (and there are definitely opportunities all across Canada). As far a salaries go I would say that for a junior to intermediate position you are looking at about $50-100k in Oil and Gas or Mining, $45-85k in Construction and $35-75k average for the other industries (all amounts in Canadian Dollars). Alberta has the lowest personal income tax rate of all of the provinces (not sure if this would affect you). I would suggest that your best searches to see what health and safety jobs are out there across the country would be found at www.bcrsp.ca (Careers Section), www.csse.org (Career Depot), www.monster.ca (search 'Health and Safety'; 'Health & Safety'; 'HSE' and 'H&S') and www.workopolis.com (same searches as before)..."