Office of Environmental Health & Protection

WEBSITE: www.ihs.gov/foodhandler

*Make sure it is I.H.S website. The site is from Albuquerque and the food handlers is free.

• Develop and ensure the implementation of environmental health and protection strategic plan policies and procedures.
• Develop and implement partnership agreements with health care, public health services providers/agencies and chapter communities on the Navajo Nation and surrounding service delivery areas.
• Compliance functions - legal, programmatic and financial – compliance related to applicable OHSA/NOSHA/ADA policies and procedures.
• Services include training, public information.
• Pursuant to 2 N.N.C. § 1604, (A), issuance of sanitation permits and respective fees and fines and penalty for environmental and protection sanitation violators.
  
• Develop, implement, enforce and regulate inter and intra agency agreements in relation with environmental health, safety and protection including but not limited to: food safety, water safety, air safety, waste management and safety, toxic chemicals, disease vectors, safety hazards, habitat alterations, migrant camp and facility, mineral safety, safety of fair/recreational equipment and facility.