This program is responsible for enforcing general
sanitation and occupational health and safety
requirements within garment manufacturing
establishments, commercial laundries, unlicensed commercial buildings and wiping
cloth establishments.
Specifically, this program has these responsibilities:
- To conduct routine, follow-up, complaint and
public health license waiver inspections of garment
manufacturing establishments, wiping cloth business, unlicensed
commercial buildings and a variety of other
establishments within the Apparel Industry, most of
which require a State Certificate of Registration
and a pubic health license;
- To inspect commercial laundries that handle
hospital linen to ensure the a dherence of
established control measures for infectious waste
such as blood, urine and feces;
- To inspect commercial laundries to ensure that
hot water temperature and exposure times are
maintained to properly disinfect and sanitize
commercial linens, garments, uniforms, wiping
cloths, etc., and to review the commercial laundry
that has calibrated chlorine dispensers and
controls;
- To ensure that
garment manufacturers provide approved drinking water to
their employees and that the drinking water is
stored and dispensed in a healthy and safe manner to
control communicable disease;
- To enforce general sanitation codes regarding
sanitary, structural and operational conditions of
the garment manufacturing establishment, including
restrooms, storage rooms, lunch rooms, work areas,
exterior premises, refuse, vermin, lighting,
mechanical, electrical, and ventilation;
- To determine the number and type of toilet
facilities in the Garment facility as dictated by
law by assessing the number and gender of the
employees;
- To ensure compliance with the Child Labor Laws;
- To ensure that unlicensed commercial buildings
that house garment-manufacturing operations adhere
to the Los Angeles County Code Title 11 as it
relates to restrooms (structural and operational),
walls, ceilings and floors (structural and
operational), vermin (structural and operational),
refuse and refuse containers, etc.
