Helps prevent food borne illness through the following activities: - Inspecting, conducting plan reviews, and issuing permits to retail food service establishments. - Restaurant and food facility inspections. - Testing/training food workers and issuing Food Worker cards. - Issuing temporary food service permits and inspecting food booths at fairs, festivals, and community events. - Investigating food borne illness reports. - Providing community education on safe preparation of food.

Responsible for environmental health control, septic system, solid waste management, and food safety. Also provides copies of birth and death certificates. Assists with information and referrals to health care, birth control, STD/HIV/AIDS programs, and immunization clinics.

Provides a question and answer line for information regarding mold, drinking water, solid waste, sewage, vectors, food sanitation, chemical and physical hazards, water recreation, and summer camps. In addition, the Yakima Health District has made an investment to provide the digital health app myStrength to residents/workers in Yakima County for additional mental health resources and support. The app myStrength provides resources to improve mental health and overall well-being. MyStrength offers personalized services to help overcome depression and anxiety, and is supported by tools, weekly exercises, and daily inspiration in a safe and confidential environment. The app includes the following services: COVID-19 Support, Support for LGBTQ+ Communities, Trauma and PTSD, and First Responders' and Support. This app is available in both English and Spanish. Visit the web link for more details: www.mystrength.com

Focuses towards promoting and protecting the health and well-being of the community by preventing, to the extent possible, the potential for food-borne illnesses and keeping the community aware of recalls of suspected food sources. To accomplish this goal, Environmental Health Staff conduct the following activities: -  Licensing and periodic inspection of all public food establishments, including grocery stores, restaurants, bars and taverns, temporary food service events, mobile food units, catering businesses, and schools -  Reviews plans for construction of new food service establishments or the remodeling of existing establishments -  Investigates food-related complaints and food-borne illnesses -  Provides training and testing for food workers -  Coordinates with other public agencies at the state and federal level to insure safe and wholesome food is made available to the public -  Provides educational and technical advice to managers of food service establishments the public

Provides environmental health programs for subjects such as mold, drinking water, solid waste, sewage, vectors, food sanitation, chemical, physical hazards, summer camps, and water recreation.

Provides inspection and licensing of restaurants and other establishments serving food to the public. Plan, review, and approve small public water systems. Bacteriological water sample testing. Assistance with problems on private wells and community systems. License water system designers. Investigate all cases of environmentally spread communicable disease. Inspect public and semi-private swimming pools, hot tubs, and beaches. Inspect schools. License and inspect disposal sites. Monitor ground water and surface waters.  Investigate animal bites for rabies control. Offer advice for eradication of rodents and insects. Investigate Lyme disease and Hantavirus.      

Regulates all retail food service establishments in the city of Tacoma and Pierce County. Provides education and epidemiologic surveillance, investigates consumer concerns and food borne illness reports. Regulates public and private schools, public swimming pools, and spas.

Protects the public from environmental hazards through food service inspections and food worker training, and food borne illness investigations. Regulates the sewage system, shellfish safety, water quality, and waste disposal. Provides information about home health hazards and wildfire smoke.

Offers a full range of environmental services, including: - Water testing -  Epidemiology -  Septic-tank -  Food inspection -  Bio-terrorism -  Communicable disease -  Hazardous waste -  Rodent control regulations

Provides retail food service permits and inspection; temporary food service permits; surveillance over recreation shellfish and beach water quality; permits and inspections of solid waste and hazardous waste handling; consultation to private and public water supplies; insect and animal borne diseases; school, youth camp and permits. Permits and inspections of onsite septic systems.

Provides health inspections and permits to temporary and permanent food establishments. Also provides food worker classes and cards to those who wish to work in food establishments. Classes are available online.

Inspects public facilities such as schools and water recreation facilities (pools and spas). Plans, reviews and inspects certain commercial facilities (massage parlors, tattoo parlors and public bathhouses). Provides routine inspection of food service establishments such as restaurants, grocery stores, taverns and ice cream vendors. Responds to citizens' complaints and has enforcement authority. Also inspects and certifies red meats, fish and poultry. Investigates consumer fraud through misrepresentation in product advertising, improper dating or pricing, etc.

Environmental Health focuses on how the environment affects the health of the community and works to minimize the public's exposure to environmental hazards.  Services include: food borne illness reporting and investigating, harmful chemicals, biological agents, rabies questions, food safety, restaurant inspections, drinking water samples/testing, shellfish/biotoxin monitoring, septic permitting and inspections, water/recreation/pools testing.

Conducts inspections, investigates complaints (including vector complaints), issues permits, and enforces regulations for retail food service establishments, temporary events, schools, camps, parks, and water recreation facilities (pools/spas).  Conducts PSP (red tide) sampling.  Administers food handler card classes and testing.

Environmental Health is a branch of public health that focuses on prevention of disease in a community through direct intervention. This is done through inspections and enforcement of various state and local laws, all of which are designed to promote a healthier community. The Environmental Health Division oversees the following programs in our community: •Food Safety (Food Handler's Permit, Restaurant Inspection) •Drinking Water •On-site Sewage (Septic Inspections) •Land Use •Water Recreation (Public Swimming Pool inspection) •School Facility Reviews •Solid Waste •Zoonotic Disease (animal to human) Surveillance and Investigation (animal bites - dogs, cats, bats, etc.)

Provides environmental health services, such as restaurant inspections, solid waste facility monitoring and licensing, septic tank permits, sewage system inspections, well digging permits, nuisance investigations, pool and spa permits, recycling, and land use reviews. It also provides information on mold, rodents, and air quality.

Issues permits and licenses for food establishments, on site septic systems, wells and water systems, public pools and spas, public camps, parks, etc. Investigates environmental health complaints.

Accepts and, where possible, attempt to resolve complaints regarding the licensing, cleanliness, truth in menu, unethical or improper conduct of personnel or other inappropriate business practices of eating establishments. Provides restaurant inspection reports available by the Yakima Health District upon request. Those interested in a record, there are three ways to obtain it. 1) Visit the Environmental Help Desk: if you want printed information, you will be required to fill out the Release of Public Records form for a small charge per copy. If you want to receive verbal information or view the computer system, there is no charge. 2) Download the Release of Public Records form from the website, fax it to (509) 575-7894, records will be sent by fax. 3) Call the Help Desk and receive verbal information over the phone.

Conducts routine inspections at all food services establishments-restaurants, schools, grocery stores, convenience stores, wineries, concession stands, mobile units as well as temporary events to ensure compliances to WAC 246.215. Also provides Food Worker Card classes.

Focuses towards promoting and protecting the health and well-being of the community by preventing, to the extent possible, the potential for food-borne illnesses and keeping the community aware of recalls of suspected food sources. To accomplish this goal, Environmental Health Staff conduct the following activities: -  Licensing and periodic inspection of all public food establishments, including grocery stores, restaurants, bars and taverns, temporary food service events, mobile food units, catering businesses, and schools -  Reviews plans for construction of new food service establishments or the remodeling of existing establishments -  Investigates food-related complaints and food-borne illnesses -  Provides training and testing for food workers -  Coordinates with other public agencies at the state and federal level to insure safe and wholesome food is made available to the public -  Provides educational and technical advice to managers of food service establishments the public

Provides information about public water systems, food safety at food establishments, public pool/spa inspections and permits, complaints about environmental health and safety in schools.