Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64E - Division of Environmental Health › Chapter 64E-18 - STANDARDS FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS › Section 64E-18.002 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Accredited - means a degree granting
				institution recognized as meeting acceptable levels of quality and performance
				by the American Council on Education.
(2) Administrative position - a position
				responsible for planning, organizing, evaluating, or directing the work of
				field personnel, supervisory personnel, or other administrative environmental
				health professionals.
(3)
				Environmental Health Services - also referred to as services. These are
				activities, or the supervision thereof, which are a routine part of
				environmental health work, such as inspections, evaluations, preparation of
				reports, analysis of data, interpretation of data and laboratory reports,
				consultations with other health professionals or the public regarding results
				of evaluations and sampling efforts, and the recommending of prescribed courses
				of action to alleviate unsanitary or hazardous conditions. These services are
				provided based on a knowledge and understanding of technical and scientific
				environmental health principles.
(4) Field position - a position primarily
				responsible for performing evaluations and inspections, collecting samples,
				conducting field tests of equipment, participating in enforcement activities,
				and providing public information on environmental program activities. Examples
				of work conducted by an individual working in a field position assigned to a
				primary program area of food protection would be performing assessments of
				sanitary conditions in a food operation, or collecting and analyzing
				information from persons involved in a foodborne illness investigation. An
				example of a person performing field work in a primary program area of onsite
				sewage treatment and disposal would be evaluating the siting and construction
				of an onsite sewage treatment and disposal system for compliance with minimum
				state standards.
(5) Florida
				Environmental Health Association - a not for profit professional association
				located online at
www.feha.org
which provides
				training, testing, and educational services for environmental health
				professionals working in Florida.
(6) Food protection program work - activity
				associated with the evaluation of facilities and techniques used by individuals
				and companies providing foods to the public. Included would be the educational
				activities directed toward informing food managers and food workers in the
				proper application of sanitary techniques or the investigation of foodborne
				disease reports.
(7) Supervisor
				position - this position is responsible for supervision of field personnel,
				some of whom may or may not yet be certified in a primary area of environmental
				health practice.
(8) National
				Environmental Health Association - a not for profit professional association
				located at 720 South Colorado Boulevard, Suite 970, Denver, Colorado 80222
				which provides training, testing, and educational services for environmental
				health professionals working in the United States.
(9) Onsite sewage treatment and disposal
				system program work - activities associated with the evaluation and site
				location of any treatment and disposal systems under the regulatory authority
				of the Florida Department of Health. Included in this activity would be site
				location and evaluation activities associated with the treatment and disposal
				of septage created during the wastewater treatment process, and the regulation
				of contractors performing system construction, maintenance, and septage
				disposal services.
(10) Registered
				Environmental Health Specialist - a person who has displayed knowledge of a
				primary area of environmental health and has been certified as knowledgeable by
				either the Florida Environmental Health Association or the National
				Environmental Health Association.
(11) Repeat Violation - any violation on
				which disciplinary action is being taken where the same individual has
				previously had disciplinary action taken against him or her and has received a
				penalty other than a letter of warning in a prior case. This definition applies
				regardless of the chronological relationship of the violations and regardless
				of whether the violations are of the same or different subsections of this
				rule.
Rulemaking Authority
					 381.0101 (5)
					 FS. Law Implemented 381.0101(2), (5),
					 (8)
					 FS.
New 9-21-94, Amended 8-20-96, Formerly 10D-123.002, Amended
					 3-2-98, 8-21-05.