Environmental Health Specialist- Sanitarian

Duties and Responsibilities: They inspect properties, businesses or homes; collecting and analyzing water samples; identifying health and environmental hazards including indoor and outdoor air quality; assists in food-borne and water-borne illness outbreak investigations; providing community health education and health promotion activities; ensuring compliance with a broad range of current local health and environmental codes, regulations and policies; participating in multi-faceted health or environmental projects.

Salary: $34,000-$45,000

Education: You need to have a high school diploma. Then you must at least have an associate’s degree. You then must pass a state certified test.

Reflection: I would not like to be a sanitarian because it is a career that does not interest me.