Housing safety and lead monitoring

Wastewater treatment

Public pool health and safety                               

Drinking and Groundwater    Specialist

Solid Waste Specialist

Food Safety Specialist

Emergency Management Specialist

Hazardous-Waste Management Specialist     

Emergency Response  Specialist

Toxicologist

Air Pollution Specialist

Surface Water Specialist

Food and Drug Inspector                   

Compliance Officer 

Epidemiologist

Industrial Hygienist

Occupational Safety Officer

For current job listings and salaries in California, http://www.ccdeh.com/jobs/default.htm      

Is a Career in Environmental Health for You?

Environmental health is the branch of public health that ensures the health and safety of life’s necessities - food, water, air, and shelter - through the enforcement of local, state, and federal regulations. Environmental health specialists are best known for their work within local government to protect and ensure the public’s health at many levels. They may monitor air quality, water and noise pollution, handle hazardous and infectious waste, control for toxic substances and pesticides, conduct restaurant inspections, promote healthy land use, and ensure that public housing and institutions meet health and safety standards, and much more. In addition, the increasing environmental health threats (E. coli outbreaks), the emergence of new diseases (SARS), and the human impact of environmental catastrophes (Hurricane Katrina) show that the need for environmental health professionals is expanding. Despite the important role that environmental health professionals play in keeping our community healthy and safe, the number of job openings is far more than the supply of qualified individuals to fill them.

Our curriculum enables you to work either as a generalist in the environmental health field or a specialist in one particular area. Upon graduation from our program, you are qualified to take the California examination to become a Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) after completing 9 months of full-time employment in an environmental health work setting.

If You Want a Career that Offers

• Adventure

• Job stability

• Independence

• Diverse job tasks

• Opportunities to travel

• A flexible work schedule

• Excellent pay and benefits

• Flexibility in the job market

• Many types of job opportunities

• A challenging and fulfilling career

• The ability to be a “disease detective”

• An opportunity to work in the field, not at a desk

• Experience in working with diverse groups of people

• The ability to help people solve environmental problems

• Satisfaction that you have reduced the spread of disease

• Satisfaction that you are contributing to a healthier community

• An opportunity to be part of the environmental sustainability movement

                                                Then Environmental Health is for YOU!

Diana Flannery, PhD, Coordinator, Environmental Health

   Department of Health and Community Services, CSU, Chico

                  Butte Hall 635     530 898-4993   dflannery@csuchico.edu

Website: www.csuchico.edu/hcsv/

Forms: ENV: Career

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