Your profession: Environmental health and hygiene officer (m/f)
Professional activities
Environmental health and hygiene officers take on monitoring and advisory tasks in specialist health administration, for example in the following fields.
- Infection protection
- Disease prevention
- Environmental and transport hygiene
- Hygiene in hospitals and other healthcare institutions
Fields of work
Possible places or areas of employment for environmental health and hygiene officers include the following.
- Health administration bodies, e.g. health authorities
- Aid organisations
- Emergency services
- Medical service of the German armed forces
The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).