Environmental Health Officer - ANZSCO 251311
- Assessment Authorities: VETASSESS
Environmental Health Officer develops, enforces and evaluates environmental health policies, programs and strategies to improve health outcomes, and oversees the implementation and monitoring of environmental health legislation. Registration or licensing may be required.
Environmental health officers may perform the following tasks:
- investigate complaints about food safety and ensure shops, restaurants and food processors follow health regulations
- monitor and control water, air and noise pollution and collect water samples for analysis
- initiate and conduct environmental health impact or risk assessments
- design and conduct health education programmes or public information campaigns
- prepare policy documents and guidelines relating to environmental health matters
- manage immunisation campaigns
- manage programmes to control disease-causing pests such as mosquitoes
- investigate and manage public health incidents such as disease outbreaks
- manage programmes to control public health and environmental issues associated with major public events
- respond to disasters and emergency situations where public health is at risk
- assess building development applications and inspect houses and public buildings to ensure they comply with environmental or health and safety standards
- inspect and license premises that may present infectious disease risks to the community, such as tattoo parlours and acupuncturists, where skin penetration and body piercing occurs, and inspect hairdressing and beauty salons
- maintain records, prepare statistics, write reports and give evidence in court cases where health or environmental regulations have been violated.
This occupation belongs to Regional Occupation List (ROL). Regional Occupation List consists of the list of the occupations which are high in demand in regional states and territories of Australia.
If your occupation is on ROL, you may be eligible to apply for the following visa subclasses:
- Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) - State or Territory nominated
- Temporary Skill Shortage visa (subclass 482) Medium-term stream
- Training visa (subclass 407)
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa (Subclass 494)
Are you Eligible to Live and Work in Australia as an Environmental Health Officer ?
Environmental Health Officer is classified as Group A occupations by Vetassess. The criteria for skills assessment of Group A occupations is to hold qualification(s) assessed at Australian Bachelor degree or higher degree with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment in the last five years.
If you wish to check your eligibility to migrate permanently to Australia as aN Environmental Health Officer , please fill out the below assessment form. The assessment is free. After submitting the form, a registered migration consultant will look into the information and advise you of the outcome of the assessment via your email address.
