Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Environmental health specialists monitor and safety conditions in residential, industrial, commercial, and recreational settings. A person who works as an environmental health specialist may also be called an environmental health or safety inspector. Most environmental safety work for the government agencies that monitor local, state, and federal safety and environmental regulations. This includes checking plants factories for pollution or industrial waste, inspecting restaurants for cleanliness, and inspecting schools, day care centers, and nursing homes for hospitals handle biological waste and ensure that swimming pools and other recreational facilities are safe for public use.

Salary: $37300 to $57,551 per year

Education: Most position for environmental health specialists requires at least a bachelor’s degree. Significant course work in chemistry, biology, public health sciences, as well as environmental engineering is usually needed as well. Those want to work for the government has to complete a certification course administered by the appropriate local, state, or federal agency.

Reflection: I would like to be Environmental health specialists because it seems very interesting you also get paid well. Although you do have to take lots of science classes but it at least you get to go around inspecting the companies produce.