Occupational Health and Safety Adviser (ANZSCO 251312)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Occupational Health and Safety Adviser on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Occupational Health and Safety Adviser comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS classifies Occupational Health and Safety Adviser as a Group A occupation — confirmed directly on its own page, which states the code and its group together: "Occupational Health and Safety Adviser ANZSCO Code: 251312 / Group A." Group A occupations require a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation, plus at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years. This code reaches STSOL plus CSOL and eight visas, including 189, 186 and 482 — the full visa range this family offers to any Group A code, and markedly broader than its closest adjacent field, Environmental Health Officer.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap with this code runs through field of study rather than task description. VETASSESS wants a degree specifically in occupational health and safety, workplace health and safety, or occupational hygiene — a general environmental-health or public-health qualification is not automatically treated as equivalent, the same way VETASSESS treats Food Science or a general nutrition qualification as not highly relevant to the adjacent Environmental Health Officer code. Given the visa-list gap between the two adjacent occupations — OHS Adviser reaching eight visas against Environmental Health Officer's three — an applicant with a borderline qualification has real reason to check which field-of-study line their actual degree falls on before nominating either code.

An honest read on this pathway

OHS Adviser's list strength — STSOL plus CSOL, eight visas including 189, 186 and 482 — makes it one of the strongest codes in this entire family, and considerably stronger than its closest adjacent occupation. This guide did not find, and did not attempt to confirm, whether occupational health and safety advisory work carries any state-based licensing requirement beyond the VETASSESS skills assessment; nothing in the sourced material for this family addresses that question either way. Anyone relying on this code for a specific state or industry role should check whether any additional state licensing applies on top of the VETASSESS outcome, separately from this guide.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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