Environmental Assessment

Just-in-Time Training

This training is targeted to environmental health professionals conducting environmental assessments for foodborne disease outbreak investigations. This just-in-time model provides a succinct, “on-the-go” training for environmental health professionals to refresh their skills on a variety of processes critical to conducting an environmental assessment. The training has been divided into 4 modules, containing 10 core topics. It is not required to take them sequentially or in total. Each topic can be accessed individually based on the needs of the environmental health professional.

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or jump directly to one of the four modules below:

INTERVIEWING

  • • Interviewing Food Workers
  • • Interviewing Managers

SAMPLING

  • • Food Sampling
  • • Environmental Sampling
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SITE VISIT

  • • Making Observations
  • • Record Review
  • • Contributing Factors
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CONTROL MEASURES

  • • Excluding Ill Workers
  • • Implementing Control Measures
  • • Concluding the Investigation

The Environmental Assessment Just-in-Time Training was developed by the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Food Safety Working Group.

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