Safety officers perform some or all of the following duties:

• Review physical, biological and chemical workplace hazards
• Conduct safety and environmental audits
• Investigate health-and-safety-related complaints, spills of hazardous chemicals, outbreaks of diseases or poisonings, and workplace accidents
• Inspect workplaces to ensure that equipment, materials and production processes do not present a safety or health hazard to employees or the general public
• Develop, implement and evaluate health and safety programs and strategies
• Provide consultation and deliver training programs to construction industry employers and employees on issues of workplace safety and (depending on the project) environmental protection