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Environmental Health
Careers
For more than one hundred years in Scotland, Environmental Health Officers and their
predecessors have been employed to look after the health of the public.
In the early days poor and overcrowded housing, polluted water supplies and adulterated
or contaminated food were the source of much disease and ill health. In 1897, the
passing of the Public Health (Scotland) Act gave wide powers to the then Sanitary
Inspector to take action to improve conditions for the general public.
The work of the Environmental Health Officer (EHO) has evolved from those earlier
days, the majority now being employed by local authorities or the Scottish Environment
Protection Agency with the task of protecting people living or working in their
area or region.
Some EHO's work for the private sector, advising businesses or their legal duties
and helping them maintain good environmental standards, often being called Environmental
Health Consultants.
All Environmental Health Officer's have similar common goals:
To reduce risks and eliminate the dangers to human health associated with the
living and working environment.
For information on courses in Scotland visit the Strathclyde University Environmental Health pages.