The requirements for registration of environmental health specialists shall be a minimum of a bachelor’s degree from a department approved educational institution or an educational institution of collegiate grade listed in the directory of accredited institutions of postsecondary education compiled by the American Council on Education, with coursework prescribed as follows:

Basic Requirements

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 106635

Experience

Training

I.

30 semester or 45
quarter basic science units
including each of the following:

18 months

600
hrs.

General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory

General Physics Lecture and Laboratory or Organic

Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory

General Microbiology Lecture and Laboratory

General Biological Science Lecture and Laboratory

Calculus or College Algebra

II.

45 semester or 68
quarter basic science
units including the following:
Three of the required science
courses shall include a laboratory:

one year

450
hrs.

General Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

General Physics

General Microbiology

General Biological Science

Calculus or College Algebra

III.

30 semester or 45
quarter basic science

units including each of the following:

9 months

300

hrs.

General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory

General Physics Lecture and Laboratory or Organic

Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory

General Microbiology Lecture and Laboratory

General Biological Science Lecture and Laboratory

Calculus or College Algebra

plus

Three semester or four quarter unit
courses in each of the following:

Epidemiology

Statistics

Public Administration or Environmental Health Adminis-

tration and;

10 semester or 15 quarter units in environmental health

science, including one or more of the following:

water quality, waste management, food and consumer
protection, housing and institution sanitation, vector control, recreational health, air quality, milk and dairy products, occupational health, electromagnetic radiation, noise
control, toxicology, soil science, or land use development.

IV.

45 semester or 68

quarter basic science

units including the following:

6 months

200

hrs.

Three of the following required
science courses shall include a
laboratory:

General Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

General Physics

General Microbiology

General Biological Science

Calculus or College Algebra

plus

Three semester or four quarter
unit courses in each of the following:

Epidemiology

Statistics

Public Administration or Environmental Health Adminis-

tration and;

10 semester or 15 quarter units in

Environmental Health Science, including one or more of

the following:

water quality, waste management, food and consumer
protection, housing and institution sanitation, vector control, recreational health, air quality, milk and dairy products, occupational health, electromagnetic radiation, noise control, toxicology, soil science, or land use development.

V.

Possess a minimum of

a bachelor’s degree

in environmental health from an
institution approved by the com­mittee, which includes:

One year of lecture and laboratory
coursework in each of the
following:

None

required

None

required

General Chemistry

General Physics

General Biological Science, and

One semester course in:

Calculus or College Algebra

Organic Chemistry

General Microbiology with Laboratory

Public Administration or Environmental Health Adminis-

tration

Epidemiology

Statistics

Field Orientation Course in Environmental Health

Fifteen semester units of environmental health science
courses selected from:
water quality, waste management, food and consumer
protection, housing and institution sanitation, vector con­trol, recreational health, air quality, milk and dairy prod­ucts, occupational health, electromagnetic radiation, noise
control, toxicology, soil science, or land use development.

All basic science coursework including mathematics shall be equal to that acceptable in an approved environmental health degree program.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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