Environmental Health
Fostering healthy and safe communities
What is Environmental Health?
Environmental Health is the branch of public health that focuses on the relationship between people and their environment, promoting human health and well-being, and fostering healthy and safe communities. Environmental Health is a key part of any comprehensive public health system. This Division works to advance policies and programs to reduce chemical and other environmental exposures in air, water, soil, and food to protect people and provide communities with healthier environments.
Environmental specialists called sanitarians ensure that restaurants and retail food establishments meet local and state standards. They regulate residential and small flow sewage treatment systems, tattoo and body piercing facilities, solid waste landfills, swimming pools, and campgrounds.
This division also monitors school environments, inspects public nuisances such as illegal sewage discharges, trash accumulations, rodent and other animal and insect disease vectors, and other potential public health problems. Plumbing inspectors in our division inspect and permit residential and commercial plumbing installations to ensure safety and sanitation.
Services also include inspections, investigations, and consultations in the following areas: air pollution, foodborne illness outbreaks, nuisance complaints about sewage and solid waste, indoor air testing, rabies control, residential plumbing, commercial plumbing, schools, institutions, solid and infectious waste, vector control, and private water systems.

Joe Harrod
Director
Bed Bugs
While they are a nuisance, bed bugs have never been known to carry any diseases and therefore are not something that the Health Department has jurisdiction over. This page offers links to outside resources.
Lead Paint & Safety Recalls
Food Recalls
Radon
January of each year is “National Radon Action Month.”
Health Department Inspections
The Environmental Division promotes public health by addressing many of the environmental factors that can affect human health. The primary role of the environmental staff is to prevent human illness or injury through public education, regulation and advocacy. Sanitarians in the department perform a wide variety of public health functions which include inspection, regulation, and enforcement of food facilities, public swimming pools/spas, campground/RV parks, manufactured home parks, beaches, and tattoo/body piercing establishments.
Programs
2021 License Fees
2021 LICENSE FEE SCHEDULE: Body Art, Food Service and Retail Food Establishments, Public Swimming Pools, Campgrounds, Sewage Treatment Systems, and Private Water Systems. CLICK TAB AT RIGHT AND SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL FEE SCHEDULES
Promoting community health and well-being
Environmental Health
Contact Environmental Health
Regular Hours
Friday 8a – 4p
Plumbing Services Hours
Friday 7:30a – 3:30p
Main Office
555 Lexington Avenue
Mansfield, OH 44907
Supervisors
Heather Decker
Sanitarian Inspector
419-774-4533
Wes Engelbach
Sanitarian Supervisor
419-774-5165
Frank Brykalski
Chief Plumbing Inspector
419-774-4536
Plumbing Inspectors
Todd Berry, 419-774-4575
Frank Waddle, 419-774-4529
Sanitarians
Rob Bowers, 419-774-4532
Michelle Eickemeyer, 419-774-0363 (Sanitarian-In-Training)
Lindsey Kaschak, 419-774-4740 (Sanitarian-In-Training)
Jason Kinkel, 419-774-4535
Madison Lotz, 419-774-4548 (Sanitarian-In-Training)
Joette Moore, 419-774-4520 (Sanitarian Consultant)
Ben Mutti, 419-774-4593
Greg Tedrow, 419-774-4594
Clerical Specialists
Shelly Adkins (Administrative Specialist), 419-774-4518
Helen Mitchell, 419-774-4522
Lola Utt, 419-774-4586
Fax
419-774-0845