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Environmental Health and Safety Technician
UCI Series Concepts
Class Specifications - E.20
Principal Environmental Health and Safety Technician - 7141
Senior Environmental Health and Safety Technician - 7142
Environmental Health and Safety Technician - 7143
September, 1976
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SERIES CONCEPT
Environmental Health and Safety Technicians perform and/or supervise technical
duties in the fields of industrial hygiene, safety engineering, environmental
sanitation, fire protection engineering and/or radiological health; and
perform other related duties as required.
Incumbents typically perform technical work under the professional direction
of a Environmental Health and Safety Technologist and perform a variety of
technical assignments in one or more major areas of a campus environmental
health and safety program. Positions in the Environmental Health and Safety
Technician series are distinguished from positions in the Environmental Health
and Safety Technologist series in that the professional technologists
typically are assigned responsibility for planning, carrying out and/or
supervising all activities in one or more major areas of a campus
environmental health and safety program. Environmental Health and Safety
Technicians typically provide technical support to the Environmental Health
and Safety Technologists; however, technicians are expected to operate
relatively independently within the scope of given assignments.
The series is broadly defined to include, but not necessarily limited to, the
five specialty fields of industrial hygiene, safety engineering, environmental
sanitation, fire protection engineering and radiological health. Incumbents
are usually assigned technical duties emphasizing one major specialty field.
They may, however, be assigned technical duties either in a functional manner
involving more than one specialty field; or in an organizational manner
covering an entire campus or major portion of a campus such as a hospital or
large laboratory facility.
The following examples are illustrative of areas in which assignments may be
made, and do not preclude allocation to the series of positions requiring
equivalent technical knowledge and skill.
Industrial Hygiene
Technical responsibilities include control of exposures to chemical hazards,
noise and nonionizing radiation; disposal of hazardous chemicals; pesticide
surveillance, ventilation control; hearing conservation and heat stress
evaluation.
Environmental Sanitation
Technical responsibilities include biological hazard control, laboratory
animal care and control, pest control, food sanitation, water protection,
surveillance of solid waste and sewage disposal, communicable disease
prevention, swimming pool safety and sanitation, housing sanitation and
epidemiological investigations.
Radiological Health
Technical responsibilities include monitoring of radiation usage, bioassay
and dosimetry, collection and disposal of radioactive wastes, carrying out
training in radiation safety procedures, and controlling the use of x-ray
producing equipment.
Safety Engineering
Technical responsibilities include investigation and prevention of accidents,
risk management and loss control, vision conservation, diving safety,
emergency preparedness, identification analysis and correction of safety
hazards and/or safety code deficiencies.
Fire Prevention Engineering
Technical responsibilities include design, construction and maintenance of
structures in conformity with relevant codes and standards for fire prevention
and life safety, fixed and portable emergency fire suppression equipment,
evacuation of occupants from structures, design, testing and maintenance of
fire alarm systems and fire prevention.
CLASS CONCEPTS
Principal Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Under general supervision incumbents perform the most difficult technical
duties in one or more areas of a campus environmental health and safety pro-
gram, typically involving coordination with various campus departments and
may supervise lower level technicians in the performance of more routine
technical assignments. Incumbents are expected to plan their work procedures
and perform assigned duties independently.
Senior Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Under supervision incumbents perform the majority of duties outlined in the
Series Concept for this class. This is the operational level at which
incumbents are expected to operate independently in carrying out assigned
duties of moderate difficulty.
Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Under close supervision incumbents perform entry level technical duties in one
or more major areas of a campus environmental health and safety program.
Assignments at this level are routine in nature and follow established
guidelines and procedures. Work is subject to review by higher level
environmental health and safety technical and professional staff.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Principal Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Graduation from high school or a General Education Diploma and four years of
experience in an environmental health and safety program, or two years of
college including appropriate science courses and three years of experience in
an environmental health and safety program; or an equivalent combination of
education and experience; and knowledges and abilities essential to the
successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
Senior Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Graduation from high school or a General Education Diploma and two years of
experience in an environmental health and safety program, or two years of
college including appropriate science courses and one year of experience in an
environmental health and safety program; or an equivalent combination of
education and experience; and knowledges and abilities essential to the
successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Graduation from high school or a General Education Diploma and one year of
experience in an environmental health and safety program, or two years of
college including appropriate science courses; or an equivalent combination of
education and experience; and knowledges and abilities essential to the
successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
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