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Written By munif on Saturday, December 20, 2008 | 7:51 PM

Sanitarian, Who Is It ?

Sanitarian :  worker who helps and advises educational, industrial, communal, public, private and other organizations, institutions and enterprises in environmental health issues.
  • Sanitarians are often engaged in visits, surveys and inspections in the field, where they may encounter various health and safety hazards present in the visited place:
  • Sanitarians sometimes work in a laboratory, where they may be exposed to toxic chemicals and other laboratory hazards.
  • While performing their inspection functions, Sanitarians may come into conflict with the local management or personnel, and be threatened or assaulted.
Sanitarian An environmental health specialist, is employed in environmental health and conducts research or performs investigations for the purpose of identifying, diminishing, and/or eliminating sources of pollutants and hazards that affect either the environment or the health of the population. They may collect, synthesize, study, report and take action based on data derived from measurements or observations of air, food, soil, water, and other sources.
Environmental health specialists begin with an associate or bachelor's degree. Environmental health specialists involved in research, administration, environmental protection, and resource management earn at least a master's degree, and some earn doctoral degrees in areas such as water resources engineering, air and industrial hygiene, environmental management, and related fields (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

According to definition Public Health, a sanitarian is a person who is trained in the sanitary sciences, biology, chemistry, geology, physics, and math, and who operates as an inspector or health official in the public sector or private industry, reviewing programs and enforcing local laws to protect the public's health. She or he is a public health professional whose responsibilities may include food sanitation and safety; air, water, and environmental protection; inspection of water-well and sewage-disposal systems; control of insect pests, and animals; disease control and epidemiology; housing, occupational, and institutional safety and sanitation; and nuisance control. Many states require sanitarians to be registered and to maintain registration and continuing education. (By Encyclopedia of Public Health)

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