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The Division of Environmental Health Services is dedicated to improving the
quality of life, ensuring public health and safety, and preventing environmental
hazards for all residents and visitors through innovation, education,
surveillance, enforcement and community service.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
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Food Protection/Plan Check
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Ontario (909) 458-9673 • San Bernardino (909) 884-4056
Victorville (760) 243-3773
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- Inspect places where food is eaten, processed, sold or stored (restaurants, markets, food stands, carnivals, etc.) for sanitation and food safety
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- Inspect wholesale food manufacturers and distributors for sanitation and food safety
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- Investigate complaints of suspected foodborne illness, insanitary conditions and other problems
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- Inspect and sample retail ice cream/yogurt soft-serve machines
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- Review plans and inspect construction of food facilities
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Housing and Property Improvement
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Ontario (909) 458-9673 • San Bernardino (909) 884-4056
Victorville (760) 243-3773
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- Inspect apartments, motels/hotels, mobilehome parks, camps, detention facilities, massage clinics, tattoo clinics, and bed and breakfasts for possible environmental health hazards
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- Organize task force operations with Sheriff's Department and other community-responsive organizations
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- Respond to complaints of environmentally-unsafe and substandard multifamily and transient dwellings
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- Work with neighborhood leaders to remove substandard multifamily structures that are hazardous to the community
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- Authorize multifamily housing rehabilitation or demolition
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Recreational Health
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Ontario (909) 458-9673 • San Bernardino (909) 884-4056
Victorville (760) 243-3773
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- Inspect public swimming pools, spas, waterslides, lakes and lagoons for possible health/safety hazards
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- Train pool owners, managers and maintenance staff
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- Investigate complaints of health or safety hazards
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- Review plans and inspect construction of commercial pools, spas, waterslides and lagoons
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Water/Wastewater/Land Use
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San Bernardino (909) 387-4666
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- Inspect/permit small community and non-community water systems that serve water to the public
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- Evaluate/comment on Environmental Impact Reports
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- Protect water sources from pollution by permitting and inspecting construction and destruction of wells
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- Ensure environmental health considerations (such as water, waste disposal, noise, vectors and protection of natural resources) are included in development projects
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- Review/approve sewage disposal reports to protect underground water source
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- Provide environmental health input to various County committees, including the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors
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- Inspect/permit liquid waste pumpers (such as septic tank pumpers)
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Waste Management/Local Enforcement Agency (LEA)
Medical Waste
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San Bernardino (909) 387-4655
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- Inspect/permit solid waste facilities (landfills, transfer stations, composting facilities)
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- Monitor landfill postclosure conditions
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- Inspect/permit refuse vehicles
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- Inspect/regulate medical waste generators
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Health Education
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San Bernardino (909) 387-4688
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- Coordinate and participate in community fairs, career days, expositions and special events
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- Coordinate student intern and staff training
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- Develop elementary and secondary school education programs, brochures, fliers, display boards, slide presentations and newsletters
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- Provide food worker sanitation training
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- Provide education programs to public and private schools and adult community groups
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- Educate and train owners and operators of food facilities for proper food-handling techniques
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Vector Control
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San Bernardino County Vector Control Program
(909) 388-4600
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- Respond to citizen complaint/service requests for community control of vectors (including mosquitoes, flies, roaches, rodents, ticks, fleas, Africanized Honey Bees, etc.)
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- Inspect poultry ranches and riding academies for nuisance flies and vector control
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- Monitor presence of vectorborne diseases (such as encephalitis, hantavirus, plague, relapsing fever, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, etc.)
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- Provide direct abatement and control of vectors in sanitary sewer systems and flood control basins
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