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Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. CERT members are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.
a little background...
The Community Emergency Response Team concept was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) in 1985. The Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987 underscored the area-wide threat of a major disaster in California. Further, it confirmed the need for training civilians to meed their immediate needs. As a result, the LAFD created the Disaster Preparedness Division with the purpose of training citizens and private and government employees.
Sanitarian-Environmental
Environmental sanitation is the art and science of applying sanitary, biological, and physical science principles and knowledge to improve and control the environment and factors therein for the protection of the health and welfare of the public. It is used to cover the wider concept of controlling all the factors in the physical environment which may have deleterious impacts on human health and well-being. Sanitation is the effective use of tools and actions that keep our environment, including latrines or toilets to manage waste, food preparation, washing stations, effective drainage, and other such mechanisms.
Click the following links to find contractors, permits, and standards for construction:
Standards for Design and Construction of Water Systems
Please note in section 5 of Resolution No. 07-2018 Penalties for Non-Compliance as follows:
Owner: In the event the property has not completed application(s) and obtained the requisite permit(s), and the owner receives written notice from the county, the owner shall have 30 days to comply. The application and permit fees are doubled for failure to comply within the 30 days from the date of the letter, and the county reserves the right to certify unpaid fees as special assessments against the property.
Contractor: Contractor's failure to timely submit permit for reconstruction or new construction and licenses to the Emergency Management Department, prior to the commencement of construction, shall result in penalties amounting to $10.00 every 30 days compliance is delayed.
All permits and licenses are subject to revocation for reasons of noncompliance or misrepresentation.
Cherokee County Health Department
The Cherokee County Health Department is on Social Media - Facebook page
Please allow 48 hours for email responses, if you need immediate assistance, please call our office during business hours.
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Cherokee County Health Department (CKCHD)is to prevent disease and to assist in the maintenance of optimum health care and environmental services for the citizens of Cherokee County through prevention and education.
