An exciting opportunity to be responsible for the planning, co-ordination, and development of workplace health strategies for this large Australian organisation.
Job Details
Undergraduate, Graduate
Environmental Health Officers are responsible for providing advice and/or services in the following areas in both a Barracks and field/ operational environment:
Human Resource Management - managing Environmental Health Teams of Technicians Preventive Medicine.
Water Supplies - providing advice on the safety and quality of all Army water supplies, including reticulated base supplies, field water supplies and swimming pools.
Food Safety - providing advice on the safety and quality of all Army food supplies including procurement, delivery, storage, preparation and serving.
Facilities - determining that appropriate standards are applied to Army facilities to meet health and safety requirements and that facilities are being maintained in a sanitary and safe condition.
Occupational Health and Safety - monitoring and evaluation of the Army working environment, providing recommendations for the control of work place hazards including risk analysis.
Disease Control - implementing measures for the prevention and control of communicable disease and maintaining and interpreting disease statistics and other epidemiological data.
Waste Disposal - providing advice on the safe disposal of human, putrescible and industrial wastes in compliance with appropriate environmental standards.
Pest Control - providing management and advice on the safe eradication of pests and vermin.
Vector Control - providing management and programs for the effective control of vector borne diseases.
Operational Health Support - providing advice and preventive medicine services for hygiene and sanitation in field operations.
Disaster Support - providing advice and services to maintain public health standards in support of disaster preparedness and disaster recovery.
Liaison - developing co-operation and liaison at a professional level with civilian environmental health and other specialist authorities; and
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence (NBCD) - establishing post-occurrence public health services with particular reference to the provision of safe food and water supplies and the disposal of wastes.
Graduate (Reserve)
Environmental Health Officers are responsible for providing advice and / or services in the following areas in both a Barracks and field / operational environment:
Human Resource Management - managing Environmental Health Teams of Technicians Preventive Medicine.
Water Supplies - providing advice on the safety and quality of all Army water supplies, including reticulated base supplies, field water supplies and swimming pools.
Food Safety - providing advice on the safety and quality of all Army food supplies including procurement, delivery, storage, preparation and serving.
Facilities - determining that appropriate standards are applied to Army facilities to meet health and safety requirements and that facilities are being maintained in a sanitary and safe condition.
Occupational Health and Safety - monitoring and evaluation of the Army working environment, providing recommendations for the control of work place hazards including risk analysis.
Disease Control - implementing measures for the prevention and control of communicable disease and maintaining and interpreting disease statistics and other epidemiological data.
Waste Disposal - providing advice on the safe disposal of human, putrescible and industrial wastes in compliance with appropriate environmental standards.
Pest Control - providing management and advice on the safe eradication of pests and vermin.
Vector Control - providing management and programs for the effective control of vector borne diseases.
Operational Health Support - providing advice and preventive medicine services for hygiene and sanitation in field operations.
Disaster Support - providing advice and services to maintain public health standards in support of disaster preparedness and disaster recovery.
Liaison - developing co-operation and liaison at a professional level with civilian environmental health and other specialist authorities; and
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence (NBCD) - establishing post-occurrence public health services with particular reference to the provision of safe food and water supplies and the disposal of wastes.