Occupational Health Specialist

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How to become an Occupational Health Specialist
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• Health defined as a proper well being of
  humankind without being interrupted by any
  disorder or disease be it mentally or
  physically. Henceforth, it has become an
  important factor for any community to make
  serious efforts towards health. According to an
  epidemiological studies done in Africa by World
  Health Organization (WHO), people are dealing
  with certain health issues such as HIV- AIDS (60
  of the people), Leprosy (less than 1 case per
  10,000 people), malarial diseases (More than 90
  of the estimated 300500 million malaria cases
  that occur worldwide every year are in Africans),
  etc. and to maintain the high state of awareness
  among population various private and governmental
  sectors are giving their valuable inputs to serve
  the nation in various forms. Hence, along with
  them, various educational organizations are also
  giving their efforts in providing high
  educational qualification in such sectors to
  greater minds.

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• Occupational Health Specialist is one of the
  programs provided by educational sectors to serve
  the humankind. Hence, it has become a great
  opportunity for students who want to pursue their
  career in public health degrees whether
  Bachelors, Masters or Ph.D. programs.

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Various positions for health specialist in AFRICA

• Occupational Safety and Health Specialists
• Occupational Safety and Health Technicians
• Occupational Safety and Health Specialists and
  Technicians
• Industrial Hygienist
• Health Physicist
• Environmental protection officer
• Fire Engineers
• Health and Safety Engineers
• Environmental scientists and Specialists
• Construction and Building Inspectors
• Job Roles
• The work profile for these positions is provided
  time to time by various divisions or sectors of
  society such as governmental organizations,
  construction places, manufacturing units, people
  dealing with management, scientific and technical
  consulting services along with hospitals located
  in local, state or at private levels.

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Occupational Safety and Health Specialists job
role is to

• Check the efficacy of the work environment
• Whether the work station is following complete
  rules or regulations to conduct hazardous work
• Create paperwork or reporting of the agencies or
  their workspace
• Complete awareness of health in the industries
  and hospitals
• Commute with the workers and design the structure
  or space for working professionals
• Provide proper counseling on use of equipment
• Inquire prior incidents and accidents so that it
  could be prevented
• Educate the population in the prevention and
  maintaining the safety level

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Academic requirements

• Bachelors degree is a must for pursuing
  Occupational Health and Safety Specialist. This
  degree provides the students with fundamentals
  and laws to be followed for maintaining proper
  health be it legal or ethical. It provides basic
  knowledge of safety and health in various fields.
• Masters degree and Ph.D. degree as a
  specialization needed for Occupational Health and
  Safety Specialist in posts like industrial
  hygiene or health physics, accident prevention in
  hospitals and the role of occupational health
  specialist in writing and communication for
  various groups of society.
• Experience required
• Minimum of 5 years by many employers
• As a fresher, one can also enter after getting
  appropriate training in the required field and by
  applying to certain posts.

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Skills required

• One should have an appropriate idea about basic
  technologies related to the field to make
  considerable profits for an organization.
• Must have the potential to handle complex and
  strategic works.
• Good communication skills to get in touch with
  employers as sometimes they need to give
  instructions and various tips to the working
  professionals.
• The complete orientation of details to be
  provided as they need to comply with varied roles
  and responsibilities with them.
• Must have the strong physical stamina to travel
  around for a certain period of time.
• Must have handling and problem-solving skills to
  prevent workers from varied environmental and
  working issues.
• Career prospects
• Career aspects and role of Occupational Health
  and Specialist include industries such as
  environmental organizations, pharmaceuticals
  industries, Medical colleges, and Hospitals.
  Numerous Occupational Health Specialist job
  includes jobs in governmental organizations too
  as they are keen on providing awareness to the
  society for the well being of common people
  residing in Africa.

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Environmental-Health-and-Safety-Specialist

• Texila American University is among the paramount
  Universities in Africa providing courses related
  to Public Health and their safety along with
  others. Various important aspects of public
  health including Occupational Health are covered
  as a part of Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D.
  degrees. It helps in entailing students in
  government and private industries.
• It helps in deliberating good skills over public
  health. We are engaged with best faculties,
  infrastructure and highly developed practical
  knowledge to our students in providing a career
  in Occupational Public Health and Safety sector.
• Day by day with dedicated faculties and
  determined students we are achieving milestones
  as the most trusted professionals offering public
  health degrees with more than 6000 students and
  alumni. Here awaits a prominent opportunity for
  the greater minds to apply for a public health
  degree with Texila American University and get
  enrolled for our BPH, MPH or Ph.D. in public
  health programs.

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