The 17 jobs that are least damaging to your health
But some jobs intrinsically pose much greater health risks than others.
Working as a chemical plant operator or nurse, for instance, is far more dangerous and less healthy than working as a college professor or music director.
To rank the least unhealthy jobs in America, we used data from the Occupational Information Network, a US Department of Labor database full of detailed information on occupations.
In order to analyze jobs by their impact on workers' health, we took O*NET measures of six health risks in each of the 974 occupations in its database: exposure to contaminants; exposure to disease and infection; exposure to hazardous conditions; exposure to radiation; risk of minor burns, cuts, bites, and stings; and time spent sitting, since studies show that frequent inactivity shortens your lifespan. O*NET scores these factors on a scale from 0 to 100, with a lower score indicating a smaller health risk.
Read on to find out which jobs have very little potential to damage your health:
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