Inspector, product safety

Environmental and occupational health inspectors and associates inspect the implementation of rules and regulations related to environmental factors that may affect human health, workplace safety, and processes for the production of goods and services. In some cases they implement and evaluate programmes to restore and improve safety and sanitary conditions under the supervision of health professionals.

• advising employers' and workers' representatives on the implementation of rules and regulations on occupational health and safety;
• inspecting workplaces to ensure that working conditions, equipment, machinery and facilities comply with sanitary, hygiene and environmental rules, regulations and standards;
• advising on environmental and sanitary-hygiene problems;
• inspecting workplaces to obtain information on work practices and occupational accidents to determine compliance with rules and regulations through interviews, observation and other means;
• inspecting production premises and places where products are processed, transported, warehoused, stored and sold to ensure compliance with rules, regulations and standards;
• advising enterprises and the general public on the implementation of rules and regulations on compliance with sanitary and hygiene norms and the purity and quality of raw materials, food, medicines, cosmetic products and others;
• inspecting enterprises to ensure compliance with rules and regulations on harmful emissions and the disposal of hazardous waste;
• initiating action to maintain or improve sanitary and hygiene conditions and prevent pollution of water, air, food or soil;
• promoting preventive and corrective measures such as control of the spread of pathogenic organisms and harmful airborne substances, sanitary and hygiene standards for food products, waste collection and disposal, and cleaning of public places;
• estimating quantities and costs of materials and labour required for occupational health and safety projects.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Inspector, environmental health
• Inspector, public health
• Inspector, health and safety at work
• Inspector, occupational medicine