Environmental Health Specialist

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Duties and Responsibilities: Environmental health specialist work for private companies, they are responsible for keeping the firm's facilities up to government standards. Their main responsibility is to determine the existence of possible health hazards and to take steps to correct them. As part of their job they inspect the environment, they may collect samples of soil, air, water, and possible pollutants from the places they inspect. As a result they test the items they collected and determine whether or not it is safe or dangerous to the environment and if they find out that it is affecting the environment they will set up a plan to get rid of it and trace it to see if it’s only one place or many others.

Salary: $37,300-$57,551

Education: For a position in the environmental health specialist is to at least have a bachelor’s degree. You must also attend training and get a certificate for this medical area.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I not sure if I would like to work as one because it seems cool to me that you can learn more about your environment but what if you come across something dangerous and it might be toxic and you wouldn’t know that’s what worries me.