Environmental Health Specialist

                           Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Environmental Health Specialists are also known as Sanitarians. They enforce government regulations and advise and educate clients.  They also improve water and sanitation facilities and are involved in improving the quality of community environments. 

Average Salary:  $25,000 - $50,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take college preparatory courses, especially in mathematics and science, during high school.

A career as a sanitarian or environmental health specialist requires a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in environmental health or environmental engineering.  Many jobs require certification and/or a Master's Degree in these, or related fields.

Reflection: I would not like to be one because I think it is very boring and it does not get paid very well.

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Environmental Health Specialists

                        Environmental Health Specialists

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Three basic disciplines generally contribute to the field of environmental health: environmental epidemiology, toxicology, and exposure science. Each of these disciplines contains different information to describe problems in environmental health. Environmental health professionals may be known as environmental health officers, environmental protection officers, public health inspectors, environmental health specialists, environmental health practitioners, sanitarians, environmental inspectors, or environmental specialists

Average Salary: $35,000 - $55,000

  Education:

A bachelor’s degree is required with approved basic science courses including biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, or physics, microbiology, and collage algebra, or pre-calculus.

Yes, I would like to become an environmental health specialist because I would be able to help people without having the stress of also worrying about having to keep track of another problem that the patient has.