As an occupational health and safety specialist, you'll need some seriously good detective skills. In this role you'll visit different kinds of workplaces and inspect them for chemical, physical, radiological, or biological hazards. You may also need to look at a site after an accident to help determine what went wrong and what precautions need to be taken to ensure that it won't happen again. One perk of the job is its flexibility: You might work for the government, a manufacturing plant, a construction company, or any other firm that needs help protecting its workers. And rather than being confined only to an office, you'll get to spend time in the field interacting with employees, so it's definitely a major plus if you consider yourself a real people person. This job is rewarding, but certainly isn't risk-free—visiting some of these locations (such as nuclear power plants) will require you to look out not only for the physical safety of others, but your own as well.