Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:
Environmental Health Specialist are responsible for implementing program activities related to the protection of the environment and the public health and safety of residents through permit, inspection, education, consultation, planning, investigation and enforcement activities. One of their responsibilities is to see if there is an existence of any health hazards and to take care of them and correct them. Some of the places that an Environmental Health Specialist works in are with government agencies, state, and federal safety. They check plants and factories for pollution or industrial waste. They also inspect restaurants for cleanliness; inspect schools and nursing home to make sure that there is no harmful substances.

Average Salary: $37,300 - $57,551

Education Requirements:
A bachelor’s degree is required with a minimum of 30 semester units of approved basic
science courses including approved coursework in biology, general chemistry, organic
chemistry or physics, microbiology, and college algebra or calculus.


Answer: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?
To be an Environmental Health Specialist seems like a good thing. I think it would be a good experience
  to be one because you are protecting you community and kepping it clean.

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