Safety engineers and industrial hygienists have similarities in their goals of preventing workplace hazards, but they also have important differences due to their education backgrounds and specific job responsibilities. While both professions aim to protect worker health and safety, industrial hygienists focus more on environmental conditions that could impact health, and safety engineers focus more on minimizing hazards through inspections and audits. Additionally, industrial hygienists generally have educational backgrounds in public health rather than engineering, so they are less familiar with equipment audits, whereas safety engineers' engineering backgrounds provide less expertise in occupational health issues.

1. Contrast Paragraph
By : Dian Nur Hanifah

2. VSSE
( Safety Engineer )
IH
( Industrial Hygienist )

3. Safety engineering and industrial hygienist has similarity with
each other not only in the same field in company but also
have the same goal which is prevent hazard may effect to
people in workplace and surrounding environment that’s why
some company have one of both this profession because
their overlapping task. But in the other hand they have many
differences about related specific assignment because of
their education background.

4. Firstdifferences, is SEhave to minimize or lost potential
hazard in workplace by their regular direct inspection or audit
safety management system (SMK3) of operation or work
flow in workplace but IH has the specific function to
responsible about condition environment that can impact to
everyone in the workplace i.e. Sick, undesirable health
problem or ergonomics. Thus IH more concern about health.

5. Second differences, is education background, IH
graduation from d3 (expl: D3-K3 unair) and their curriculum
have no management course material because their job later
not to leading safety in company but only become supervisor.
In addition some IH graduates from public health with
occupational safety in continuation major or from medical
major. Otherwise SE generally from engineering majors as
commonly use to leading safety in company.

6. Thirddifferences, since IH is not from engineering
discipline they don’t know how to audit of operation or
motion equipment because they not too familiar about
engineering. On the contrary SE not too know about health
especially occupational disease effect (PAK)

7. So, we can conclude that the differences about
roles of IH and SE in company / manufacturer
because of their education background. but IH and
SE can support with each other and interrelationship
in their knowledge in safety in work area