Oh! You Want to Get Into Safety

Breaking into occupational safety shouldn’t feel like a mystery — but for most people, it does. Traditionally, occupational safety literature assumes you’re already employed. Few resources address how to package yourself, evaluate an employer, or build a career that lasts forty years. So this roadmap was built deliberately — from the ground up.

Oh! You Want to Get Into Safety is a career guide for occupational safety — no gatekeeping, no pretense, just honest guidance from a GSP and Authorized OSHA Outreach Trainer who advanced through the trades and independently funded every certification and degree along the way. This roadmap was constructed so the next generation enters this field with direction, not uncertainty.

Whether you’re a high school student, college graduate, or tradesperson ready to level up, this guide delivers real-world career strategies, earning potential breakdowns, OSHA fundamentals, employer evaluation tools, and a Year 1–Year 40 backward planning framework. Five practitioner-ready appendices extend the framework: industry-specific resume templates, interview preparation sourced from real safety recruiters and directors, a step-by-step certification roadmap with costs, a signed 90-Day Career Action Plan, and an OSHA Quick Reference Card.

You go from uncertain and underprepared to confident, credentialed, and career-ready.

Most people who want to get into safety spend years searching for direction that was never written down — until now. For less than a tank of gas, the drift ends here.

$24.99 · Instant digital download · PDF format.