2023 California Code › Health and Safety Code - HSC › DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH › PART 1 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 4 - Professional Certification › ARTICLE 1 - Registered Environmental Health Specialists › Section 106635.

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 science
units including each of the following:
9 months
300
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
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 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
200
hrs.
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 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.
V.
Possess a minimum of
a bachelor’s degree
in environmental health from an
institution approved by the com­mittee, which includes:
One year of lecture and laboratory
coursework in each of the
following:
None
required
None
required
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
Statistics
Field 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.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)