| The Pools, Tattoos and State
Institutions Branch protects public health by: assuring safe and
sanitary design, construction and operation of public swimming
pools; enforcing sanitation and infection control procedures
practiced by tattoo artists and permanent color technologists;
advising state agencies on health management at state institutions;
evaluating sanitation of health care facilities and confinement
facilities licensed or certified by the Department of Health
and Human Services; and evaluating sanitation of public, private and
religious schools. Standards are enforced statewide by
environmental health specialists employed by county health
departments. |
