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Mission

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Boulder County Environmental Health Program

Mission

• The Boulder County Health Department’s Environmental Health Program shall protect, promote, and enhance the health and well-being of the public and the environment by:
• Assessing and mitigating environmental health risks.
• Providing educational opportunities.
• Creating partnerships with the community.
• Collaborating with other agencies.

Values

• The Environmental Health team will strive for excellence and will demonstrate:
• PROFESSIONALISM We will promote staff professionalism through knowledge, accountability, and integrity.
• TEAMWORK We will collaborate, communicate, and coordinate to achieve our mission.
• LEADERSHIP We will be in the forefront of providing guidance, resources, and progressive problem solving to serve the public and to reduce environmental health risks.
• RESPECT We will demonstrate respect by recognizing diversity, encouraging honesty, being courteous, and honoring confidentiality.
• PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT We will support personal and professional growth by promoting self and shared responsibility, training, and recognition.

Operating Principles

• While addressing our identified Mission and working within our value system, we will:
• Provide high quality professional services using risk-based public health and environmental health principles.
• Use comprehensive program planning which assesses needs, targets risks, secures resources, evaluates output, and attains goals.
• Research and promote the best available technologies and methodologies for improving public and environmental health.