environmental health inspector
ISCO: 3257. Skills: 37. Essential: 16.
Essential skills
- address public health issues
- audit techniques
- check methods
- conduct environmental surveys
- contribute to public health campaigns
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- environmental legislation
- environmental policy
- monitor legislation developments
- perform environmental investigations
- present reports
- promote health and safety
- provide improvement strategies
- public health
- use consulting techniques
- write inspection reports
Supporting skills
- analyse health problems within a given community
- biology
- chemistry
- communicable diseases
- conduct educational activities
- consumer protection
- develop environmental policy
- enforce sanitation procedures
- environmental engineering
- foodborne diseases
- hazardous waste storage
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- maintain relationships with government agencies
- occupational health
- percolation
- perform risk analysis
- pests and diseases
- pollution prevention
- provide advice on breaches of regulation
- provide testimony in court hearings
- wear appropriate protective gear