NRS625A.028. “Practice of environmental health” defined.

      1.  “Practice of environmental health” means the use of public health principles in the application of the sanitary sciences, the biological sciences or the physical sciences to investigate, prevent or reduce environmentally acquired disease or illness.

      2.  The term does not include practice in the field of:

      (a) Environmental health by a person whose primary work is performed by and for the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or for an entity whose activities are limited solely to issues relating to air quality;

      (b) Industrial hygiene, public education, indoor air quality, health physics, mold assessment or mold remediation;

      (c) Cleaning up and disposing of hazardous waste and substances performed by a person who is certified by the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources pursuant to NRS 459.400 to 459.600, inclusive, and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto, unless the clean up and disposal of the hazardous waste and substances is performed directly by and for a public health agency;

      (d) Zoonotic disease ecology or vector-borne disease ecology, or both, when the practice in that field is performed as a specialty;

      (e) Mining performed by an employee or contractor of a mining company engaged in mining operations in this State;

      (f) Building inspections performed by a person whose primary purpose is to determine compliance with building and safety codes; or

      (g) Epidemiological investigations performed by a person whose primary profession or employment is as an epidemiologist or disease investigator.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 1985)