Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 106635
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 scienceunits including each of the following: | 9 months | 300hrs. | |
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 healthscience, 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 | 200hrs. | |
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 ofthe 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 ofa bachelor's degreein environmental health from an institution approved by the committee, which includes:One year of lecture and laboratory coursework in each of the following: | Nonerequired | Nonerequired | |
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 | ||||
StatisticsField 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.
Ca. Health and Saf. Code § 106635