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Campgrounds
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Our goals:
Ensure the minimal risk of injury, disease, and vector
exposure to persons utilizing camps.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Periodic inspections, education of operators, enforcement of
regulations in all areas of sanitation and safety. |
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Food Safety
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Our goals:
Prevention of food-borne illness and conditions that
cause illness ~ including preparation, transportation, storage, and serving.
Ensure a healthy environment in food service facilities.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Routine system of periodic inspections, plan review,
operator education, and regulation enforcement. |
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Household Sewage Treatment Systems
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Our goals:
Reduce the risk of infectious diseases transmitted by
improperly or inadequately treated sewage.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Permitting, site evaluation, system design, installation
inspections, operational inspections, soil surveys (disposal and replacement
areas), lot splits, and subdivision review. |
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Manufactured Home Parks
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Our goals:
Prevent disease, safety hazards, and unsanitary
conditions in parks. Minimize the potential for injury, disease
transmission.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Routine system of inspections, plan review, education,
and regulation. |
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Mosquitoes Ticks and Rodents
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Our goals:
Reduce the risk of infection from vector-borne diseases
(such as West Nile Virus, St. Louis encephalitis, Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever, Lyme disease).
How we
accomplish our goals:
Provide information to the public regarding the
prevention of vector-borne diseases. Monitoring of mosquito and tick
population and environmental conditions that would harbor breeding of such
vectors. |
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Public Health Nuisance Abatement
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Our goals:
Protect community against public health nuisance
conditions that could adversely affect the health and welfare of persons in
the community.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Promote public awareness of the importance of a clean,
healthy environment. Abate threats to public health through ordinances,
orders, court action, and demolition. |
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Public Swimming Pools and Spas
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Our goals:
Prevent spread of waterborne diseases, related illnesses,
and accidents at public swimming pools and spas.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Periodic inspections, education of operators, enforcement
of regulations, monitoring of chemicals, water quality, and equipment. |
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Rabies Monitoring
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Our goals:
Protect the public from the spread of rabies and to
promote awareness of the dangers of rabies.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Monitoring of a nationwide immunization program,
quarantine isolation and observation during bite case (both human and
animal), and suspect case animal head submission to the Ohio Department of
Health for clinical testing. |
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School Environments
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Our goals:
Ensure schools, their environments, and their playgrounds
are constructed and maintained to protect health, safety, and the welfare of
students, school employees, and the general public.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Education of custodians, administrators, and teachers.
Enforce quarantine and disinfection laws. |
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Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishments
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Our goals:
Reduce the risk of infection due to communicable diseases
associated with tattoos and body piercing.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Ensure establishments are licensed and maintained in a
sanitary manner. Routine inspections and education. |
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Waste Haulers
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Our goals:
Ensure sanitary conditions in the collection, storage,
and transportation of liquid and solid waste.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Licensing and inspection of solid and sewage waste
haulers. |
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Water Safety
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Our goals:
Ensure groundwater is protected from surface
contamination through private water wells. Ensure the safe and sanitary
development of private water supplies.
How we
accomplish our goals:
Monitor the installation of private water wells. Provide
water sampling and knowledgeable interpretation of the results of such
tests. Monitor water quality. |
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Smoking
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Our Goals:
Ensure that
people in public places are not exposed to secondhand smoke.
How we accomplish this:
Take
complaints, conduct investigations, issue warnings and fines, provide
education to the public and proprietors |
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Solid Waste |
Our Goals:
Ensure that
trash is properly disposed.
How we accomplish our goals:
Conduct
quarter inspections at the county landfill, investigate illegal dumping |
