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Offers free honey bee swarm removal and relocation.

Provides inspections, permits and licenses of food services, wells, septic systems, manufactured home parks and public swimming pools. Provides inspections of properties when issues affect the public’s health, such as water, sewage, rodents, garbage and other unsanitary conditions. Provides information about pest control, mold removal and lead prevention. Also conducts education sessions on the programs it administers. Does not provide on-site inspections for household mold.

Environmental health division providing: food and water inspections; nuisance complaints; rabies control; residential lead hazard investigation. Nursing and community health division providing: communicable disease follow-up; immunizations for children and adults; foreign travel immunizations; flu shots; case management for children with medical handicaps; community health assessment and education; tuberculosis clinic; preventative health services. WIC program provides supplemental nutrition support to women, infants and children under the age of 5.

Responsible for the control and extinguishment of fires, the inspection of buildings and hill side property, maintenance of equipment and trained fire-fighters. Also provides emergency medical and rescue services.

Community Environmental Health promotes and protects the health and safety of residents through preventative health programs: investigates animal bites; inspects jails; inspects RV Parks & Campgrounds; provides mosquito control and education; enforces housing maintenance and occupancy codes; licenses and inspects public swimming pools; licenses and inspects tattoo and body piercing establishments; provides education on diseases and health issues related to ticks. (Residents living in the Cities of Columbus and Worthington are served by Columbus Public Health.)

Provides free assistance to reduce or remove lead hazards from homes. Provides windows, doors, and siding.

Provides education about bed bug infestations.

Provides fire prevention and protection services. Also provides periodic CPR classes, and will do carbon monoxide testing, smoke detector checks and home safety inspections as requested. Provides smoke detectors and will change batteries for those who cannot do it by themselves.

Provides payment for pest extermination services. Assistance is for both animal and insect control, including bed bugs.

Provides fire protection services. Also provides fire prevention information and tests for carbon monoxide. Can supply information about smoke detectors, but not the detectors themselves; will speak with landlords about providing required smoke detectors.

Provides fire prevention and protection services for the Village of Highland Hills. Offers smoke detectors for seniors.

Provides water and sewer services to village residents.

Establishes and enforces standards to protect air and water quality (including lead in water), as well as solid and hazardous waste management and cleanup. Insures proper handling of solid wastes and hazardous materials including radiative substances, toxic fumes, and explosives. Offers information and education about environmental issues such as air quality, water quality, water supply, and others. Handles non-emergency complaints about violations of state's environmental protection laws. Examples of complaints include (but are not limited to) smoke or heavy dust emissions from industrial facilities, illegal dumping, burning of trash or tires, drinking water issues, destruction or draining of wetlands, and discharging industrial or agricultural waste into water or storm sewers. Offers opportunities for citizens to participate in public advisory groups, public information sessions, and public hearings. Can provide information regarding lead in water including if the area is under an advisory and/or what actions one can take.

Any person who operates or intends to operate a public pool or spa or beach in the Knox County General Health District needs to apply to the Knox County Health Department prior to opening of the site and annually once the operation has been licensed. Public swimming pools and spas are licensed from June 1st until May 31st of each year. Applications are sent out in late March and need to be postmarked or received by Knox County Health Department by May 1st. Any application not postmarked or received by May 1st is subject to a late fee of 25% of the applicable fee.

Provides a hotline for reporting unusual and unwanted substances in and around stormwater drains.

Provides a information on radon, a colorless, odorless gas, often released in household basements as part of the decomposition of soil, that is the largest source of lung cancer for non-smokers. Also provides radon test kits for home use.

Performs services to protect and promote public health in Defiance County. This is done by regulation enforcement, inspections and providing educational materials and programs for the public. The Environmental Health Division is responsible for the following programs: body art, boy/girl scout camp inspections, food protectipn program, harmful algal blooms, household sewage treatment systems, manufactured home parks, private water systems, public health nuisance complaints, real estate/subdivisions, recreation park camps, school environmental health, smoke-free workplace, swimming pools and spas and vector-borne and zoonotic disease.

Provides fire prevention and protection services for the residents of Strongsville. Offers carbon monoxide testing, blood pressure screening, fire prevention information and education, CPR classes, safety and first aid for babysitters, safety awareness seminars, home safety inspections, and fire extinguisher training. Will speak to interested groups.

Assists building, fire, police and zoning departments in investigating complaints involving dwellings which are considered a nuisance or detrimental to public health. Works with property owners and users to address the issues.

Provides general premise and community sanitation investigations for the prevention, identification and removal of unsanitary and/or nuisance conditions. For indoor air quality information such as radon, log on to web site: https://www.epa.gov/radon.

Provides a lead-based paint remediation program.

Offers fire protection services, emergency medical services, fire inspection, smoke alarms for low-income families, carbon monoxide testing, fire prevention education, and general safety information. Also provides a juvenile firesetters program.

Reduces the incidence of insects, vermin, and related diseases throughout Richland County by using education, rodenticides, adulticides, and code enforcement. **Note** They DO NOT have funds for bed bug extermination. This office ONLY gives out information on pest control.