Environmental Health Services3653 SE 34th Ave. Portland, Oregon 97202Phone: (503) 988-3400 Fax: (503) 988-5844 FoodSafety@co.multnomah.or.us |
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Healthy Homes Program
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Capacity Building Products PACE-EH
The following capacity building products are available to other environmental health programs as a resource:
- Food Borne Illness Database and Manual
The Food Borne Illness Database and Manual are tools MCEH uses to track, analyze and respond to food borne illness complaint data.
- Workforce Development Post-Secondary Environmental Health Internship Manual
Multnomah County Environmental Health Services depends upon knowledgeable and experienced staff to perform a broad range of duties. In order to stave off the effects of a retiring workforce and the impacts of limited curriculum in environmental health at the academic level, we created a post-secondary Internship program. The internship program became a successful strategy to 1) peak student interest in environmental health, 2) improve student’s ability to apply academic theory into workplace practice; and 3) prepare students for the environmental health workforce by stocking future labor pool participants with a “tool box” of skills that will increase the likelihood they will succeed when hired into environmental health positions.
In 2005, Multnomah County Environmental Health Services created a Workforce Development Post-Secondary Internship Manual. The manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop and implement an environmental health internship program and the tools necessary to get started. Agencies can use some or all of the information and/or tools provided to develop an internship program on whatever scale desired
- Risk Rating Research Project Final Report
Multnomah County Environmental Health conducted an examination of critical violations and inspection times at Multnomah County restaurants by: 1) Menu Risk Categorization and 2) Seating Category to determine whether menu complexity better predicts critical violations and inspection time than seating capacity. Risk category was found to have a stronger association with critical violations than seating category. Regression analysis found that risk category and seating category together better predict critical violations at inspection than either category alone. Previous critical violation history was found to most strongly predict critical violations. Seating category was found to most strongly predict inspection time. It was recommended that seating category, risk category, and history of previous critical violations be used to determine fee categories and frequency of inspection. The full report can be downloaded by clicking on the link above.
- Additional Documents & Resources
Browse for tools created by the Community Education and Outreach Program.
Multnomah County Health Department
426 SW Stark, 8th Floor, Portland, OR 97204
Phone numbers:
Health Information and Referral: (503) 988-3816
Administration: (503) 988-3674; FAX: (503) 988-3676;
TDD: 1-877-735-7525
Clinic Appointments: (503) 988-3333