Training

Annually, the Public Health Sanitation Division conducts an Eight-Week Sanitarian Training Class for new sanitarians employed in West Virginia.  The course meets the requirements of the Board of Registration for Sanitarians in providing 300 hours of environmental health training.  The topics for the course are geared to enabling a newly hired Sanitarian to be able to do their daily job.  Plans are underway for the upcoming course, click here to see dates and agenda topics.

Other training is also available to Sanitarians from In-Service Training meetings which are coordinated by the District Sanitarians; workshops, teleconferences and seminars on a quarterly basis. 

Training capabilities have been enhanced in order to help provide the over 180 registered sanitarians with the continuing education hours required by the state Board of Registration for Sanitarians.

The Bureau for Public Health also encourages the use of West Virginia Train, a training portal.

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The Division also holds annual training and certification testing for Individual Sewage System Installers.

Approximately fifteen-hundred (1,500) Class I and Class II Sewage System Installers have been trained and maintain their certification in West Virginia.  Certification is valid for five years, click here for information about certification renewal. 

The training course is a two day joint Class I & II session.  After the first two days, those installers wishing to obtain their Class I license will be able to take the appropriate exam. 

The next two days will focus on information necessary for the Class II installers exam with extensive hands-on training at the National On-Site Demonstration Center in Morgantown.

Information on the next scheduled course will be posted as soon as it is available.