PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN (Title 32)
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As a PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN (Title 32), GS-0640-8, you will maintain F.....
As a PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN (Title 32), GS-0640-8, you will maintain Force Health Protection through planning, evaluating, and management principles related to epidemiological, operational, and occupational and public health programs. This includes occupational health, hearing conservation, reproductive health, bloodborne pathogens exposure control, communicable disease control, immunization, disease vector surveillance, disease/epidemiological surveillance, aircraft inspection, facility sanitation, food safety and vulnerability, health risk assessment, medical intelligence, and operational medicine.
Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list:
- Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Air Force Occupational Safety and health (AFOSH) directives in the ANG area of assignment.
- Determine educational/training requirements for employees by analyzing existing compliance data.
- Ensure pre- and post-deployment medical screening, documentation and required post-deployment medical follow-up activity is accomplished as directed in current Air Force Instructions (AFIs) and Health Affairs policy.
- Analyze BEE Industrial Hygiene Survey data to determine exposed personnel, ensures completion of audiometric testing, reviews test results to detect threshold shifts and recommends appropriate follow-up actions.
- Interview and educate employees, consults the workplace supervisor and determines the need for employee work restrictions and counsels the employee on potential health hazards that may affect pregnancy and reproductive health at the workplace, at home, and during recreational activities.
- Formulate, implement, and execute methods and educational strategies for identification, control and/or elimination of vector-borne illness with regional health agencies.
- Analyze scientific and compliance data to determine the scope and frequency of required occupational health surveillance.
- Review, implement and execute current policy and guidance for routine and mandatory immunization requirements, including deployment-specific immunizations.
- Review existing on and off-base food and public facilities, contracted medical services, lodging, food vendors, and other related services.
- Utilize variety of technical instructions, technical manuals, medical facility regulations, regulatory requirements and established procedures from agencies such as the National Fire Protection Association, Health Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, and advisory committees of immunization practices.
- Set up surveys, provide education, track and develop training, research requirements and provide coordination to ensure programs are viable.
Starting at $54,292 Per Year (GS 8)
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