ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN

Environmental health officer is one amongst the courses accredited in FAMSAS College of Health to train students to monitor and improve public/environmental health standards, using specialist skills to implement and enforce health policies in line with distinct regulatory divisions. Environmental health practitioners play an important role in private industry and in the state sector in ensuring that proper standards are achieved. They do this through advice, education, monitoring and regulation. Formerly known as health inspectors, environmental health officers are responsible for monitoring and enforcing standards of environmental and public health, including food hygiene, safety at work, housing and noise and pollution control, preventing environmental health conditions injurious to health and promoting good environmental practices. The main duties forming the scope of the EHO’s work may be grouped under the following headings:- Food control, hygiene education, water monitoring, tobacco, housing, air pollution, noise, infectious diseases, pest control, poisons regulations, childcare.