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" Upon completing his/her studies, the graduate of the Department, certified Hygienists of Technological Education, has the knowledge and practical experience to successfully operate either independently or in collaboration with other scientists and technologists in the following fields:
a. Safeguarding Public Health
b. Ensure the hygiene in businesses of hygienic concern.
c. Ensure food quality assurance at all stages of production, distribution, and marketing.
d. Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Protection,
e. Occupational Health and Safety.
In these fields, and their respective segments, the Department's graduate will be able to undertake responsibly the following:
i. The preparation of Health studies.
ii. Epidemiological surveys.
iii. Health checks, and expert reports.
iv. Preventive legality checks.
v. Applications for sanitation, disinfection, sterilization, insecticide, pest control etc.
vi. Environmental testing, water quality testing, testing of water and wastewater treatment plants, inspections of solid waste management and treatment plants.
vii. Sampling of water, sewage, wastewater, solid waste, etc.
viii. Sound measurements.
ix. Assurance of water supply and sewage hygiene.
x. Prevention and implementation of health and safety measures for workers for protecting them against occupational hazards.
xi. Implementation of measures in closed population groups for protecting them from epidemics, diseases, etc.
xii. Ensuring hygiene in hospitals and health centres.
xiii. Ensuring hygiene in schools.
xiv. Health inspections in undertakings of hygienic concern and assurance of the hygiene thereof.
xv. Educational programs for the promotion and support of health.
xvi. Consultancy for issues of quality assurance, hygiene, and food safety in food businesses.
xvii. Design of HAACP and ISO quality programs.
xviii. Teaching at all levels of education on Personal, Public and Social Health and Environmental Hygiene.