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An offer from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

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).