Duties

Environmental Health assures food, lodging, and institutional sanitation as well as proper sewage disposal and well protection.

Services

Environmental Health provides a range of services that protect the health of all citizens of Nash County. These services include:

• Permitting and inspection of facilities that sell food to the public
• Provides food-handler classes to food service establishment employees
• Inspects all public pools to enforce health and safety standards
• Inspects day cares, summer camps, rest / nursing homes, hospitals, residential care and confinement facilities, tattoo parlors, and lodging facilities to enforce state rules
• Enforces state laws which help protect children from exposure to lead hazards
• Enforces state laws and regulations on smoke-free bars / restaurants
• Helps prevent the spread of disease from improper sewage disposal and unprotected wells
• Collects and tests water samples
• Provides well permitting and related inspections and samples
• Provides Septic design, permitting and installation inspections
• Evaluates building sites for suitability of septic systems and enforces state and local well rules

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