Section 106635.  


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  • 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

    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.)