Salt Lake Valley Health Department
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Sanitation and Safety
Chemically Contaminated Properties (meth labs)
Indoor Air Quality (non tobacco)
Second Hand Smoke - Multiple Dwelling
Sanitation and Safety
788 East Woodoak Lane (5830 South)
Murray, Utah 84107
(385) 468-3835
Program List
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations that address the operation of body art establishments. Tattoo, permanent makeup, and body piercing are regulated by this program. Facilities are assigned to a specific LEHS who make routine inspections as well as investigate any alleged violations in their assigned establishments.
Business License
Facilitate the permit application process for establishments regulated by the Bureau of Sanitation and Safety: tanning, body art (tattoo, permanent makeup, body piercing), massage, cosmetology (estheticians, nails and hair.)
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations that address housing provided for incarcerated persons. We make routine inspections of the living quarters and respond to complaints about conditions in these facilities.
Correctional Institutions and Community Corrections Centers Regulation #34
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations that address the operation of cosmetology establishments. Estheticians, nail techs, as well as cosmetologists are regulated by this program. Facilities are assigned to a specific LEHS who make routine inspections as well as investigate any alleged violations in their assigned establishments.
Cosmetology Facilities Regulation #20
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations to facilitate the maintenance of at least minimum standards for dwellings, i.e., places of human habitation.
We respond to complaints about housing conditions that may pose a public health risk and direct the responsible party to make corrections, but our main purpose is to minimize health risks to the general public, i.e., sewage spilling over a public sidewalk or backing up in a basement apartment vs. a heater serving a single apartment or cracked window.
Indoor Air Quality (non tobacco)
To investigate reports of problems with indoor air pollution in businesses or homes when the cause is not from the use of tobacco. These are often reported as “peculiar” or “chemical” orders or it is reported that people using the building are getting sick. We have discovered CO poisoning caused by faulty furnaces. But there are many other contaminants that have been found.
EPA Indoor Air Quality Information
Solid Waste Management and Permitting Regulation #1
The purpose of the SLVHD lead program is to answer lead related questions and access environmental hazards of lead exposure with children whose elevated blood lead levels rise above 20 micrograms per deciliter.
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations that address the operation of massage establishments. Licensed massage therapists are regulated by this program. Facilities are assigned to a specific LEHS who make routine inspections as well as investigate any alleged violations in their assigned establishments.
Massage Facilities Regulation #18
Chemically Contaminated Properties (Meth Labs)
The purpose of this regulation is to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare by establishing standards, procedures, and responsibilities for the regulation of the occupancy and use of property where hazardous or dangerous chemicals or chemical residues commonly associated with the manufacture of illegal drugs or other hazardous or dangerous chemicals are or may be present; the regulation of the decontamination of such contaminated properties; and the regulation of the disposal of hazardous or dangerous materials and contaminated debris removed from contaminated properties
Chemically Contaminated Properties Regulation #32
The purpose of this regulation is to establish standards for the control of noise pollution within Salt Lake County to reduce the making and creation of excessive, unnecessary, or unusually loud noises, to secure, protect, and promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of Salt Lake County.
Community Noise Pollution Control Regulation #21
The purpose of this regulation is to minimize exposure of the public to any communicable, infectious disease, illness, or unsanitary condition that may be imposed upon them as guests of a public lodging facility. The purpose of this regulation is also to minimize guests’ exposure to unsafe conditions or circumstances that may cause physical injury.
State of Utah Radon Information
This rule shall be liberally construed and applied to provide minimum requirements for the protection of the health and safety of the school occupants and the general public.
Design, Construction, Operation, Sanitation, and Safety of Schools
Second Hand Smoke - Multiple Dwelling
Utah Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations that address the management of solid waste. We respond to complaints about illegal dumping and excessive accumulation of solid waste on any private or public land. We contact the responsible party, usually the property owner, and direct them to remove and properly dispose of the solid waste.
General Sanitation Regulation #7
Enforcement of and education regarding SLVHD regulations that address the operation of tanning establishments. Facilities are assigned to a specific LEHS who make routine inspections as well as investigate any alleged violations in their assigned establishments.
Tanning Facilities Regulation #25
To investigate reports of illegal smoking inside businesses. There are restrictions on smoking in buildings that are just work sites and business that are open to the public. Sometimes the problem is smoking too close to the buildings as well.
Utah Indoor Clean Air Act (R392-510)
Solid Waste Management and Permitting Regulation #1
An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans.