We surveyed 88 product safety engineers to learn what personality traits and interests make them unique. Here are the results.


Holland Codes

Product safety engineers are investigative and realistic

Product safety engineers tend to be predominantly investigative individuals, which means that they are quite inquisitive and curious people that often like to spend time alone with their thoughts. They also tend to be realistic, which means that they often enjoy working outdoors or applying themselves to a hands-on project.

If you are one or both of these archetypes, you may be well suited to be a product safety engineer. However, if you are artistic, this is probably not a good career for you. Unsure of where you fit in? Take the career test now.

Here’s how the Holland codes of the average product safety engineer break down:


Big Five

The top personality traits of product safety engineers are extraversion and social responsibility

Product safety engineers score highly on extraversion, meaning that they rely on external stimuli to be happy, such as people or exciting surroundings. They also tend to be high on the measure of social responsibility, indicating that they desire fair outcomes and have a general concern for others.

Once again, let’s break down the components of the personality of an average product safety engineer: