Environmental Health

Mission

Protect and promote public health by preventing environmental exposures to hazardous conditions and assuring compliance with environmental health laws and regulations.

Scope of Practice

• Provide services, activities, and programs that prevent or mitigate adverse health effects through the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of health hazards identified within the environment (water, food, land, and other environmental media or settings that may adversely affect human health).
• Services and activities incorporate health risk management processes to continuously anticipate, identify, assess, and control health hazards, and document activities within prescribed systems of records.
• Entomological services encompass prevention, identification, surveillance, management, documentation of medically important pests.

Programs and Services

• Drinking Water Program
• Environmental Program
• Food Service Sanitation Program
• General Sanitation Program
• Recreational Water Program
• Solid, Hazardous, and Regulated Medical Waste
• Entomology Program
• Training and Certification

Service Requests

• Field Sanitation Team (FST) Course
• Food Handlers Certification
• Water Container Inspection
• Water quality