Safety and Occupational Health professionals encompass positions that involve management, administration or operation of a safety and occupational health programs or administrative work concerned with safety and occupational health activities. Their main goal is to eliminate or minimize human injury and property and productivity losses, caused by harmful contact incidents, through the design of effective management policies, programs, or practices. Safety and occupational health management work requires application of the knowledge of: (a) the principles, standards, and techniques of safety and occupational health management; and (b) pertinent elements of engineering, physical science, ergonomics, psychology, industrial hygiene, physiology, sociology, and other scientific and technological fields which contribute to the achievement of comprehensive safety and occupational health objectives.