NOC 2021 · 21120 · TEER 1
Public and environmental health and safety professionals
Unit group 21120 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Public and environmental health and safety professionals review, evaluate and monitor public health and environmental safety hazards and develop strategies to prevent, control and eliminate disease and environmental impact caused by biological and chemical factors. They inspect restaurants, industrial establishments, municipal water systems, public facilities and institutions to ensure compliance with government regulations regarding sanitation, pollution control and the handling and storage of hazardous substances. They are employed throughout the public and private sectors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- beauty salon inspector
- dangerous goods inspector - railway transport
- dangerous waste inspector
- enforcement officer - environmental health
- environmental health and safety advisor
- environmental health and safety coordinator - public health and environmental safety
- environmental health inspector
- environmental health inspectors supervisor
- environmental health officer
- environmental health officers supervisor
- environmental officer
- environmental safety advisor
- environmental safety consultant
- environmental safety officer
- environmental safety specialist
- flood damage inspector
- food inspector
- hazardous waste inspector
- health standards inspector
- hotel and restaurant inspector - public health
- industrial waste control inspector
- mine examiner
- nursing home inspector
- pollution control inspector
- public health and safety coordinator
- public health inspector
- public health inspectors supervisor
- public health safety inspector
- public health unit supervisor
- public safety advisor
- public safety consultant
- public safety coordinator
- public safety officer
- public safety specialist
- quarantine officer - public health
- restaurant inspector
- rodent control inspector
- rodent control officer
- safety and sanitary inspector - public and environmental health
- sanitary department inspector - environmental health
- sanitary standards inspector
- sewage disposal inspector - environmental health
- waste water treatment plant inspector
- water inspector
- welfare institute inspector - public health
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.