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Environmental Health Registration Board Policy Statement
April 27, 1999
The policy of the Oregon Environmental Health Registration Board is to promote understanding and cooperation between the Engineering and Environmental Health professions. For the last thirty (30) years these two boards have worked well with each other. This policy statement is a proactive effort to clarify the position of the Environmental Health Specialist and Waste
Water Specialist.
The Environmental Health Registration Board's objective is to promote quality work by competent individuals by encouraging continuing education. Quality work will provide protection for the consumer.
An Engineer is not restricted to a specific area of practice as long as the practice meets the definitions outlined by the Board of Engineering.
By comparison, the scope and volume of practice performed by private Environmental Health Specialists and Waste Water Specialists is much smaller than that of Engineers. The Environmental Health Specialist and Waste Water Specialist scope of practice mainly involves individual homes, small community systems, repairing failed systems, maintaining existing systems, biosolid projects and securing permits for waste water projects. Environmental Health Specialists and Waste Water Specialists design systems usually where soil is the final treatment for the waste.
The Environmental Health Specialists and Waste Water Specialists hereby state that we will use the expertise of the engineering profession when it is appropriate.
Note:
The policy statement was developed by Design sub-committee of the Environmental Health Registration Board, which met on April 27, 1999. Committee members and guests present at the meeting were: Steve Wert, Chuck Herrick, John Smits, Richard Sherman and Ed Graham, Engineering Board, Kelli Waltman, Program Representative, Robert and Barbara Van Creveld, and Sherman Olson.
Invited but not attending the meeting were: Dan Bush and Suzanne Crane, Engineering Board Chair.
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