CEHA’s December HAZWOPER 8 Hour Refresher
December 13, 2018
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What is Environmental Health?

Environmental health is the science and practice of preventing human injury and illness as well as promoting well being through:

• Identifying and evaluation environmental sources and hazardous agents
• Limiting exposures to hazardous physical, chemical and biological agents in air, water, soil, food and other environmental media or settings
• Minimizing ecological impacts that maintain ecological balances essential to long-term human health and the environment

Environmental Health Programs May Include:

• Food Protection
• Onsite Wastewater System Installation and Repair
• Drinking Water Quality
• Air Quality
• Hazardous and Solid Waste
• Childcare Sanitation
• Recreational Water Quality
• Tattoo and Body Piercing Sanitation
• Zoonotic Diseases (West Nile Virus, Plague, Relapsing Fever, HantaVirus, etc.)
• Disaster Sanitation/Emergency Response
• Land Use
• Built Environment