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Conducts workshops on a regular basis for licensed professionals to assist them in extending their knowledge base and provide them with needed continuing education credits in order for them to retain their licenses.

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Workshops/Symposiums
Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
Enforces cosmetology and barbering industries standards through examinations, routine inspections, investigations, and disciplinary action.

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Barbering/Cosmetology Occupations
Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
ODJFS and county departments of job and family services are responsible for licensing and inspecting family child care homes and child care facilities.

Provides training program and support to become a licensed foster parent and assists foster parents in adopting children placed in their care when appropriate.

Handles all purchasing for the county. Registers and annually certifies all vendors for county projects. Assures that minority and women-owned businesses are included as participants in county projects.
Licenses and inspects food service operations, vending machine operations, retail food establishments, and temporary food and mobile food operations as described above. Responds to consumer complaints regarding restaurant. Reports and investigates food-borne illnesses.

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Food Complaints
Product Safety Standards
Restaurant/Food Sanitation
Food Safety Education
Food Facility Licensing
Food Poisoning Investigation
Responsible for licensing and inspection of food service operations and retail food establishments including restaurants, convenience stores, coffee shops, concession trailers, food vending, temporary food sales at events, deli and grocery stores.

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Food Complaints
Restaurant/Food Sanitation
Food Facility Licensing
Licenses and provides license verification information about pharmacists, pharmacy interns, terminal (dangerous) drug distributors, and manufacturers and wholesalers of controlled substances.

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Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
Licenses, educates, and inspects restaurants, grocery stores, food trucks, vending machines, and anywhere else that sells food in Lorain County. Helps to prevent diseases spread through food by making sure food is prepared and stored safely. Follows up on complaints. Food inspection reports can be viewed online at https://www.loraincountyhealth.com/foodsafety.
Issues licenses for restaurants, grocery stores, vending machines that dispense perishable items, temporary food events, and mobile food operators, and conducts periodic inspections of these facilities in service area. Assists those who are planning to open businesses of these types to make application for licensing. Responds to consumer complaints about these establishments. Reports and investigates food-borne illnesses. Answers questions about food recalls. Offers food safety education classes.

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Restaurant/Food Sanitation
Product Safety Standards
Food Facility Licensing
Food Complaints
Food Safety Education
Provides inspection and code enforcement of: plumbing, water, and sewer service; sewage; schools; water wells; camps; recreational areas; swimming pools; groceries; food services; trailer parks; and solid waste disposal. Also provides planning for land use with soil surveys and layouts; rabies control; and nuisance abatement.

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Building Inspection
Occupancy Inspection
Mosquito Control
Public Facility Health Inspection
Food Handling Permits
Public Health Information/Inspection/Remediation
Catering Truck Complaints
Abandoned Building Inspection
Rat Control
Food Complaints
Construction Inspection
Public Health
Home Sanitation
Carbon Monoxide Testing
Water Quality Assurance
Food Facility Licensing
Food Poisoning Investigation
Restaurant/Food Sanitation
Licenses Ohio's real estate brokers and salespeople, real estate appraisers, and foreign real estate dealers and salespeople.

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Real Estate Sales Personnel
Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
1. To set and maintain minimum levels of sanitation at food vending machine locations. 2. Check any complaints by the public on vending machines, also educate route man on cleaning and maintaining vending machines. 3. Check location of vending machines to make sure each is a good sanitary practice for the public.
Manufactured Homes Program has jurisdiction over the installation of manufactured homes; the licensing and regulation of manufactured home park operators, installers, dealers, brokers, and salespersons; and the certification and regulation of inspectors and inspection agencies.
Establishes and enforces licensing and certification standards for public accountants in Ohio.

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Accountants/Auditors
Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
Food Service Operations (FSOs) and Retail Food Establishments (RFEs) are licensed and inspected by the PCPH Environmental Health Division. Restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, school cafeterias, caterers, and other permanent facilities that sell food are required to be licensed under the Risk Program

Nationally Certifying Organization that certifies Phlebotomists, EKG Technicians, Medical Assistants, and Patient Care Technicians. Offer continuing education conferences and online CEU’s.
Oversees activities related to licensing of optometrists and opticians and takes disciplinary action for noncompliance with standards.

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Optometrists
Opticians
Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
Establishes and enforces licensing and certification standards for funeral directors and mortuary service personnel. Administers examinations to demonstrate competency, issues or denies licenses, and revokes licenses or takes disciplinary action for noncompliance with standards.

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Occupational/Professional Licensing and Certification
Funeral Directors/Mortuary Service Personnel

Provides vendor's licenses to those seeking to sell products or services in Allen County. Issues only regular vendor’s licenses for vendors with a fixed place of business, which are only good for one location. Vendors with multiple locations, transient vendors, or services vendors need to apply through the State Auditor.
Offers certification examinations for pharmacists, pharmacy interns, terminal and whole distributors of dangerous drugs and manufacturers and wholesalers of controlled substances.
Provides foster home licensing, home placement, and recruitment of potential foster families, including kin families.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Licensing
Foster Home Placement
Monitors and regulates Ohio’s private post-secondary career colleges and schools to ensure compliance with minimum standards set by Ohio Revised Code. Accepts complaints and responds to concerns from consumers in regard to private colleges.
Environmental Public Health Programs • Food Safety • Public Swimming Pools • School Environment • Body Art • Rabies Control • Smoke Free Workplace • Private Water Systems • Sewage Treatment Systems • Manufactured Home Parks • Nuisance Complaints • Emergency Preparedness • Mold • Food License Information Call for any details on above listed programs.

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Food Safety Education
Tap Water Testing
Pest Information
Rabies Control
Body Artist Complaints
Mold Pollution Information
Food Facility Licensing
Responsible for restaurant and food sanitation inspections, plumbing inspections, tap water testing, and rabies control.

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Food Poisoning Investigation
Public Health Permits
Food Complaints
Rabies Control
Catering Truck Complaints
Food Handling Permits
Health Screening/Diagnostic Services
Tap Water Testing
Food Facility Licensing
Food Safety Standards
Restaurant/Food Sanitation
Home Sanitation