Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation is responsible for establishing policy and enforcing the New York City Health and Administrative Codes, the New York State Sanitary Code, and various Local Laws of the City of New York, for broad spectrum of environmental health concerns. It is comprised of five offices and seventeen programs. In essence, it is a very successful primary prevention program that protects the public from: food borne illnesses wherever meals are served to the public; injury or illness to children attending day camps; window falls for children residing in multiple family dwellings; and other possible hazards, like second hand smoke, found in our environment.
The Bureau's biggest responsibility is assuring that food service establishments are properly permitted and operating safely. With close to 22,000 food service establishments in New York City, this is a substantial undertaking. If you ever eat at a restaurant, diner, delicatessen, school cafeteria, community center, mobile food vending cart or any other facility or establishment that serves meals to the public, the chances are the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's (the Department's) Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation (BFSCS) is providing regular and periodic inspections to assure the safety of what you eat. Beyond enforcing regulations to which food service establishment operations must adhere, Bureau inspectors spend a considerable amount of time educating operators of these establishments on food safety practices.
Among the programs of which the Department is the proudest are those that protect the health of our most vulnerable citizens. The Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation runs programs designed to protect children from window falls or unsafe camps, older New Yorkers who attend senior centers and immune compromised citizens living in single room occupancy hotels.
Public Health Sanitarians (PHS or inspector) perform the majority of inspections conducted by the Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation. PHSs are college graduates who have earned at least thirty credits in the physical sciences. Once hired by the Bureau, PHSs undergo four months of rigorous training in every area of the Bureau's operation before being assigned to one of its offices. They are cross-trained in all relevant programmatic areas to maximize the Bureau's ability to deploy staff to areas of greatest need. This policy allows for increased productivity and decreasing response time to complaints. PHSs are proficient in many areas of environmental health. They not only enforce environmental regulations but also educate establishment owners and supervisors on what they need to know to operate safely.
The Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation (BFSCS) abides by rigorous corruption control procedures to ensure the integrity of its operation and the fairness of the inspection. Because PHSs are cross-trained, they are periodically reassigned to different programs and work in different areas of the City from month to month. Inspectors never perform re-inspections at establishments or facilities for which they performed the original inspection and rarely inspect the same establishment twice.
The Bureau's biggest responsibility is assuring that food service establishments are properly permitted and operating safely. With close to 22,000 food service establishments in New York City, this is a substantial undertaking. If you ever eat at a restaurant, diner, delicatessen, school cafeteria, community center, mobile food vending cart or any other facility or establishment that serves meals to the public, the chances are the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's (the Department's) Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation (BFSCS) is providing regular and periodic inspections to assure the safety of what you eat. Beyond enforcing regulations to which food service establishment operations must adhere, Bureau inspectors spend a considerable amount of time educating operators of these establishments on food safety practices.
Among the programs of which the Department is the proudest are those that protect the health of our most vulnerable citizens. The Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation runs programs designed to protect children from window falls or unsafe camps, older New Yorkers who attend senior centers and immune compromised citizens living in single room occupancy hotels.
Public Health Sanitarians (PHS or inspector) perform the majority of inspections conducted by the Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation. PHSs are college graduates who have earned at least thirty credits in the physical sciences. Once hired by the Bureau, PHSs undergo four months of rigorous training in every area of the Bureau's operation before being assigned to one of its offices. They are cross-trained in all relevant programmatic areas to maximize the Bureau's ability to deploy staff to areas of greatest need. This policy allows for increased productivity and decreasing response time to complaints. PHSs are proficient in many areas of environmental health. They not only enforce environmental regulations but also educate establishment owners and supervisors on what they need to know to operate safely.
The Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation (BFSCS) abides by rigorous corruption control procedures to ensure the integrity of its operation and the fairness of the inspection. Because PHSs are cross-trained, they are periodically reassigned to different programs and work in different areas of the City from month to month. Inspectors never perform re-inspections at establishments or facilities for which they performed the original inspection and rarely inspect the same establishment twice.
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