Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Preparing and implementing plans and strategies for the safe, economic and suitable disposal of commercial, industrial, medical and household wastes36
- Providing education, information, training and advice to persons at all levels on aspects of occupational hygiene and environmental health36
- Coordinating arrangements for the compensation, rehabilitation and return to work of injured workers.28
- Advising on methods to prevent, eliminate, control or reduce the exposure of workers, students, the public and the environment to radiological and other hazards28
- Developing, implementing and reviewing programmes and policies to minimize potential environmental and occupational risks to health and safety27
- Implementing prevention programmes and strategies for communicable diseases, food safety, waste water treatment and disposal systems, recreation and domestic water quality, contaminated and hazardous substances26
- Recording and investigating injuries and equipment damage, and reporting safety performance26
- Identifying, reporting and documenting hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in the environment and workplace and advising on compliance with relevant law and regulations25
- Developing, implementing and monitoring programmes to minimize workplace and environmental pollution involving chemical, physical and biological hazards25
- Promoting ergonomic principles within the workplace such as matching furniture, equipment and work activities to the needs of employees24
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Preparing and implementing plans and strategies for the safe, economic and suitable disposal of commercial, industrial, medical and household wastes(36)
- Providing education, information, training and advice to persons at all levels on aspects of occupational hygiene and environmental health(36)
- Coordinating arrangements for the compensation, rehabilitation and return to work of injured workers.(28)
- Advising on methods to prevent, eliminate, control or reduce the exposure of workers, students, the public and the environment to radiological and other hazards(28)
- Developing, implementing and reviewing programmes and policies to minimize potential environmental and occupational risks to health and safety(27)
- Implementing prevention programmes and strategies for communicable diseases, food safety, waste water treatment and disposal systems, recreation and domestic water quality, contaminated and hazardous substances(26)
- Recording and investigating injuries and equipment damage, and reporting safety performance(26)
- Identifying, reporting and documenting hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in the environment and workplace and advising on compliance with relevant law and regulations(25)
- Developing, implementing and monitoring programmes to minimize workplace and environmental pollution involving chemical, physical and biological hazards(25)
- Promoting ergonomic principles within the workplace such as matching furniture, equipment and work activities to the needs of employees(24)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 28.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Preparing and implementing plans and strategies for the safe, economic and suitable disposal of commercial, industrial, medical and household wastes
- • Providing education, information, training and advice to persons at all levels on aspects of occupational hygiene and environmental health
- • Promoting ergonomic principles within the workplace such as matching furniture, equipment and work activities to the needs of employees
- • Identifying, reporting and documenting hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in the environment and workplace and advising on compliance with relevant law and regulations
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Health professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Health professionals |
|---|---|
| Norway | 6.1% · 178 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 5.3% · 276 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 5.1% · 246 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 5.0% · 155 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 5.0% · 141 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 4.8% · 248 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 4.5% · 1,529 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 4.2% · 416 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 4.2% · 188 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 4.2% · 218 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.1% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.8% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 3.8% · 838 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 3.7% · 161 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 3.6% · 614 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 3.5% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 3.5% · 18 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.2% · 938 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 3.1% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.1% · 237 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 3.0% · 88 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 3.0% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 2.9% · 29 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.9% · 150 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.8% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 2.7% · 1,149 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 2.4% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 1.9% · 88 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 1.7% · 45 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.7% · 45 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.6% · 395 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland6,389
- Luxembourg5,274
- Ireland4,873
- Germany4,807
- Belgium4,799
- Denmark4,446
- Norway4,237
- Austria4,099
- Netherlands4,031
- Iceland3,875
- EU273,850
- France3,791
- Finland3,769
- Romania3,559
- Sweden3,416
- Spain3,413
- Slovenia3,326
- Italy3,305
- Cyprus3,271
- Lithuania3,221
- Croatia2,890
- Czechia2,871
- Malta2,825
- Poland2,783
- Hungary2,777
- Portugal2,755
- Latvia2,671
- Estonia2,599
- Bulgaria2,359
- Slovakia2,345
- Greece2,321
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Health professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?