Wednesday, March 7, 2018
M7.4 Local Environmental Services
I looked up the environmental services in Contra Costa County. The Contra Costa Health Services page has various services. The Environmental Health and Hazardous Materials sections are the most prevalent for including the environmental services that are available within the county. Within the Environmental health services section, the goal is to promote the health of the people through safe food, water, recreation, and waste management. One thing I was not expecting was the "Body Art Program" which ensures sanitary use and waste of body piercing and tattooing equipment. This does fall under the category of environmental services because its management of the equipment and the shops so there is no spread of disease. Seeing "Recreational Health" is an important one too, but I was not expecting to see it. This is keeping the recreational use areas safe to specific environmental standards. The Hazardous Material section is very relevant to environmental services. This section helps protect the health of the environment by promoting pollution prevention, responding to environmental incidents, and enforcing programs. I would expect there to be a county HazMat service to address any incidents that occur. I didn't know that the HazMat team also promotes prevention programs like the Lead Poisoning Prevention program.
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Hi Tina,
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting that there is a program for body art. I am glad that there is one because people can get nasty infections from getting a tattoo. It is great that there is many agencies and program available to monitor and regulate every aspect and possibilities that may occur in our environment, such as the lead poisoning prevention program.
Your explanation of why the "Body Art Program" is under the Environmental Health and Hazardous Materials department makes so much sense now! Since we have a similar program in Sonoma County, it would make sense that it would fall under the environmental department. I was just confused because I could not find an explanation on the Sonoma County website. Thank you for clearing that us, Tina!
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