U.S. ACTIVITIES:
While employed full time by Tulare County (see below)
I provided part-time service as a Food Safety Auditor for a
private firm for a total of three (3) years. Subsequent to
my county retirement in 2003, I was hired as sole source
liaison person for the state of California, promoting the
use of innovative plastic chamber technology used for
liquid waste disposal by a firm in Connecticut.
After 2004, I did private consulting work designing waste
water disposal systems for institutional facilities and
residential units in addition to consulting regarding
hazardous analysis critical point audits for a private
California company.
And I closed off my career officially in 2005 after serving
as an environmental editor for a agribusiness/dairyman
magazine in Sanger, California.
1985 - 2003: Tulare County Environmental Health
Specialist
The two major aspects of such programs are the
PREVENTION of disease and the PROTECTION/PROMOTION of human
well-being.
The prevention aspect is characterized by efforts to break
the chain of transmission of disease or the occurrence of
unhealthy conditions.
The protection/promotion of human well-being is exemplified
by environmental health activities intended to contain
hazardous elements and the control of nuisance which
interfere with the comfort and enjoyment of life and the
use of the environment by all who live in, or visit the
State Of California
Program
experience
I have been involved in the
following program areas:
Land Use
The Land Use Program safeguards and promotes the
safeguards and promotes
the health and well-being of
the public through the application of environmental
health
principles of
effective land use. It prevents public health hazards
and mitigates
environmental
degradation that may result from improperly planned
land
development. Staff reviews proposed site plans, zone
changes, use permits,
general
plan amendments, sewage disposal and water systems
having public
health
implications.
Liquid Waste
The purpose of the Liquid Waste Program is to protect
the health of
the
public and environment from the improper disposal of
sewage from
on-site
sewage and grey water systems; to educate the public
on the proper
operation
and maintenance of sewage systems. The staff reviews
engineer designed,conventional on-site sewage disposal
systems and grey water
systems.
Water
This program seeks to assure that public and private
water supplies
are
suitable for domestic use. Small water systems are
routinely
inspected to
assure proper operation and maintenance. The staff
protects
public health
and prevents disease by assuring that these systems
are at all time
safe,
potable and available in adequate quantity and
protected against
contaminating
backflow and back siphonage.
Hazardous Material
This program assures that staff respond to spills of
hazardous
material, properly identify the material, oversee
safety
issues and decontamination at
the site. The division cooperates with local fire
agencies,
agriculture departments
and public works agencies to abate the impacts of
hazardous
materials spills.
Additional responsiblity includes weekend duty coverage is
also provided.
Food Sanitation and Consumer
Protection
The purpose of this program is to ensure that food
provided for
human consumption
is wholesome, properly labeled as advertised The
staff is to
prevent
the occurrence of food- borne illnesses; to promote
the preparation,
production
and service of food in hygienic, appealing food
facilities and to
protect
the health of the food worker by encouraging safe and
sanitary on-
the-job
working conditions.
ACTIVITIES
ABROAD
During my three years tenure in
the Kingdom of
Saudi
Arabia (Saudi Royal Commission) I performed the
duties of
Environmental Health Officer/Manager of Public Health
Services,
Industrial
City of Jubail while contractually employed by
Bechtel
Engineering,
San Francisco, California. This was a two-year
contract.
Duties included functioning as the Program Specialist
of the Entomology,
Insect
and Pest Control and later as Group Manager. This
included the
development
of public health options and the execution of plans
to provide
public health
services for the new city's organization including
directing the
preparation
of operating procedures, budgets, schedules and
performance
criteria. Assured timely
technology transfer to Saudi nationals
This was followed by a second one-
year contract
with Kemya - Exxon's affiliate
assignment I performed the function of Environmental
Health/Industrial
Hygiene
(EH/IH) Coordinator in Jubail. I initiated and
developed EH/IH
programs
which included the establishment of procedures for
handling and
disposal
of solid and liquid wastes, monitoring of air and
water quality and
noise
levels. I instituted internal reporting systems and
assured
technology transfer
to Saudi nationals. Secured all environmental permits
from the Royal
Commission,
coordinated IH activities and acted as liaison for
governmental/industrial
interfaces.
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