Kara Huff
Baldwinsville,NY
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Sanitarian II
Onondaga County Health Department
01.2019 - Current
- Company Overview: Division of Environmental Health
- Conduct inspections of school cafeterias, hotels and motels, beaches, children’s summer camps, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and spas, campgrounds, migrant farmworker housing, restaurants, mobile units, and temporary food service events
- Investigate public complaints of facilities and ensure code compliance
- Prepare detailed inspection reports and determine compliance and enforcement of facilities
- Review staff certifications for beaches, swimming pools, and children’s camps to verify they are valid and acceptable
- Review facility safety plans, and input all information into access database, update as needed
- Investigate alleged food illnesses, accidents, injuries, drowning/near drowning’s, communicable disease, and any other incident related to the operation of facilities under permit with the Onondaga County Health Department
- Prepare investigation reports for incidents and submit to the New York State Department of Health
- Collect beach and water samples and conduct sanitary surveys of non-community water systems
- Testify at hearings regarding sanitary code violations
- Provide training to owners, operators, and employees of facilities regarding health issues and sanitary code requirements
- Train and supervise other inspectors on sanitary code requirements
- Participate in Quality Improvement, focusing on increasing employees’ identification and engagement with the Onondaga County Health Departments Mission, Vision, and Core Values
- Conduct Covid-19 case investigations, including contact tracing and public notification
- Assist with Covid-19 vaccination clinics, including public registration and sign in to clinics
- Provide education to permitted operators on Covid-19 regulations and guidelines and issue enforcement action if necessary
- Assist with other sections, as needed, within the division of Environmental Health
- Division of Environmental Health
Environmental Health Technician II
Onondaga County Health Department
02.2004 - 02.2007
- Company Overview: Division of Environmental Health
- Supervise the Healthy Neighborhood Program and oversee daily activities of the Environmental Health Technician I and Summer Aides
- Interview and hire staff for temporary summer positions
- Conduct Surveys and distribute household supplies and materials in urban areas of Onondaga County concerning fire safety, lead poisoning, and asthma management
- Make referrals to other agencies as needed
- Conduct follow up visits to a portion of the public surveyed ninety days from initial survey
- Visit all households with asthmatic individuals from the previous year to conduct a follow-up survey
- Input surveys and referral information into computer database using Microsoft Access, Word, and Excel
- Coordinate with the American Lung Association to conduct informational seminars to educate the public on asthma management
- Prepare quarterly and annual reports using information collected from field surveys
- Division of Environmental Health
Environmental Health Technician I
Onondaga County Health Department
08.2001 - 02.2004
- Company Overview: Division of Environmental Health
- Conduct inspections of restaurants, temporary food service events, mobile units, food commissaries, and vending machines for sanitary code violations
- Investigate alleged food illnesses in restaurants which includes physical inspection of the implicated facility, obtaining food and stool samples, interviewing for case history information, and conducting food preparation reviews of suspect food
- Prepare inspection reports and determine compliance and enforcement of facilities
- Investigate customer complaints as related to food service establishments
- Provide training regarding health issues and code requirements
- Collect routine water samples and conduct sanitary surveys of non-community water systems in restaurants
- Testify at Commissioner’s health hearings regarding sanitary code violations
- Interact with other sections within the division of Environmental Health
- Division of Environmental Health
Summer Aide
Onondaga County Health Department
09.2000 - 12.2000
- Company Overview: Division of Environmental Health
- Research the West Nile Virus to contribute new findings of origin, epidemiology, and course of action to be taken for the following spring
- Retrieve dead bird species for testing of the West Nile Virus
- Obtain water samples from public and non-public restaurants and businesses for testing of nitrates, and also perform a test to detect a chlorine residual in the water supply
- Locate the latitude and longitude of area wells using a Global Positioning Satellite unit
- Division of Environmental Health
Timeline
Sanitarian II
Onondaga County Health Department
01.2019 - Current
Environmental Health Technician II
Onondaga County Health Department
02.2004 - 02.2007
Environmental Health Technician I
Onondaga County Health Department
08.2001 - 02.2004
Summer Aide
Onondaga County Health Department
09.2000 - 12.2000
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