An Essay: The Importance Of Being A Sewer Inspectors

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• This is a job for people who like to work with their hands. Who like to dress up in biohazard suits and carry lanterns around in dark sewers underground. Also gets to carry a lot of inspection and sample tools.
• Someone who doesn’t like getting their hands dirty and walking a lot. This wouldn’t be the job for someone who doesn’t like any hands on work.
• People who have a keen eye for things, like looking for specific things and people who like to get their hands dirty and like hands on work.
• People who would get their hands dirty and like hands on work.

WHAT
• Their job entails walking and sometimes crawling through sewer tunnels to inspect for cracks, clogs and other problems,
• Removing drainage blocks with hazardous chemicals or making the drain flowage more efficient.
• This job is very important, we need someone to make sure our sewer systems run properly and efficiently so that our wastes don’t get clogged up or won’t work. Sewer inspectors work to see this never happens.
• To become a sewer inspector, some experience working with underground utilities is typically required. Technical education might also be needed when using television cameras and video equipment to examine sewer lines. You’ll generally need to have at least a high school diploma, get on the job training from a company that hires you or private classes. Some knowledge in chemistry may also be required, but a college degree in Hydraulic systems and chemistry will cover that.
• Teamwork Skills, Computer Skills, Time Management Skills, Problem-Solving Skills, Organization Skills, are all the transferable types of skills required in this field
WHERE
• This job can be done in big countries with big cities where there are large sewer systems. Li...

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...ment outlooks for sewer isn’t that good, there aren’t a lot of sewer inspectors since there are only a few for big cities. As technology and computer systems develop, machines will soon replace sewer inspector.

THEGOOD/THE BAD/THE UGLY
• Sewer inspectors need to have a keen eye and knowledge when inspecting for problems such as clogs or cracks.
• There are risks when there is hands on work, a risk could be a fall or getting hit in the head by a pipe if not looking where going.
• The amount of nasty odours and sludge that is down there in those pipes.
• If you like the job and getting your hands dirty it’s the job for you
• Some people might think that it’s a lowly job and the people who do it are uneducated or had nothing else to do but that’s untrue, sewer inspectors are very important to the community and without them we would be living in our own messy waste.

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