CLIENTS SERVED RECENTLY

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Richard has offered clients professional services in a number of adminsitrative and emergency planning program areas, including Y2K preparation, occupational health policy development and food auditing since 1996.

In his 30 years with the Environmental Health Services, Department of Public Health, City of Torontoto 1996 Richard held various managerial positions and has experienced changes both successful and unsuccessful. 

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ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program responsibility included:

Food Quality, Infection Control, Rabies and Animal Control, Environmental Protection, Emergency Response Planning and Animal Control Services with a budget of over $5,000,000, and a staff of 65.

Administrative Accomplishments:

Successful implementation of strategic planning process in the Environmental Health Service; introduction of the Team Concept for the Environmental Health Officers (public health inspectors) and development of client-focussed approach to the food industry.

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Projects undertaken:

i)   Greenwood Racetrack Steering Workgroup to select appropriate
development options for the former racetrack site with local community
consensus 


ii)  City of Toronto Decommissioning Steering Committee for the former
Toronto Refiners and Smelters property 


iii) Developed, planned, and managed, together with the respective community,
the Housedust Cleaning Component of the Lead Reduction Programme in South Riverdale and Niagara in collaboration with the Ministry
of the Environment Project came in $500,000 under the $2,600,000
allotted budget


iv)  Responsible for all public health emergency planning coordination under the Metro Toronto Emergency Plan, both for the DPH, and for the surrounding 9 health units


v)   Development and Implementation of a HACCP protocol (a process-
focused food handling audit program) for the City of Toronto

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

York University, Atkinson College -- Baccalaureate Degree in Political Science (1979)

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto -- Environmental Health Course (1965)

Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors/Canadian Public Health Association -- qualified as a Certified Public Health Inspector (Canada) (1965)

University of Toronto, Ontario Institue for Studies in Education/Institute for Environmental Studies -- Master of Education degree (2001)

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS with PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT:

    * Manager responsible for the Environmental Protection Office 
    * Emergency planning across Metropolitan Toronto and the
       surrounding area municipalities of Peel, York and Durham Regions.
    * Departmental safety representative
    * Workgroup for corporate sponsorship principles for Department of Public
       Health
    * Member of the Biosafety Committee, University of Toronto
    * Change the focus of the Service to a client service rather
       than the traditional confrontational format of "service" delivery

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

Presentation (May 1998) of South Riverdale lead reduction program elements in Legnica, Poland to medical professionals working with environmental heavy metal impacts on children in Poland, Lithuania and White Russia

Emergency planning seminar for Environmental Health Students

Presentation on the role of environmental health services to the 4th year students

"Lead Abatement in the Residential Environment" course (1991 - 1998)

Presentation on November, 1989, on the theme "Occupational and Environmental Surveillance: Applications  and Limitations"

"Rounds" for Community Health Residents:
   - Environmental Auditing
   - Emergency Planning
   - Lead Reduction Programme

Career Day Presentation (1999 - 2001) on "How to get a job ... and keep it!

 
Journal of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (Canada).
    - PHIs: are we different?
    - The Economic Aspect of Foodhandling
    - Occupational and Environmental Surveillance: Applications and Limitations

Association of Supervisors of Public Health Inspectors in Ontario.
               - Vice-President, 1987-1988

Committee of Supervisory Public Health Inspectors of Metropolitan Toronto

Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors
               - member, # 1540
               - Representative on the Conservation Council of Ontario

Ontario Council of Community Health Accreditation
               - surveyor

Great Lakes United
               - member

     Member of the following hiking trail organizations:
       Bruce Trail Association (President)
       Grand Valley Trail Association
       Guelph Radial Hiking Trail Association
       Ganaraska Trail Association

    Member of Board of Directors of the Markland Wood Homeowners'
     Association

    Volunteer with Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (administration, emergency         planning and occupational health and safety)

    Volunteer with the Toronto Humane Society

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