Training Hub Resources
Public Health Competencies
The Barnstable County Training Hub team is dedicated to creating a comprehensive online resource hub for environmental health professionals.
7 Steps of HACCP: State Food Safety
Acidified Rice HACCP Plans Evaluation Tool
Cook Temperature Guide Quick Reference
Cooking Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products: FSIS & USDA 12/21
Cooking Temps: State Food Safety
Control Time & Temperature – Teaching Tips: UMASS Extension
Dishwasher Sanitation Guidance: MA Partnership for Food Safety
Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook: FDA 2020
Employees Must Wash Hands Poster: State Food Safety
Food Allergen Awareness Guidance: MDPH 2024
Food Allergen Awareness Poster: MDPH 2024
Food Hazards Chart: State Food Safety
HACCP Plans Content Summary: LPHI
HACCP Plans for Specialized Processes at Retail: AFDO 11/28/23
Handwashing Fact Sheet Infographic: MDPH 2003
Manually Washing Dishes, Utensils, and Equipment, and Using Chemical Sanitizers: MHOA
Minimum Labeling Requirements Brochure: MDPH 6/30/15
Mobile Food Establishment (MFE) Pre-Operational Checklist for LBOH MDPH 2026
Mobile Food Establishments Recommended Guidance: Conference for Food Protection 2014
Reduced Oxygen Packaging Training Module: 8/24/17
Refrigerator Storage Chart: State Food Safety
Reheat Food For Hot Holding Poster: State Food Safety
Slicer Sanitation Guidance: MA Partnership for Food Safety
Sushi HACCP Retail Standardization Guidance: Conference for Food Protection 5/20/23
Sushi & The Food Code : FDA & Conference for Food Protection 6/13/18
Thermometer Calibration Guide: Kansas State University 2000
Time & Temperature Control for Safety (TCS) Foods: State Food Safety
Wash Hands Handout: UMass Extension
Wash Your Hands – One Trillion Germs: CDC
Washing Hands Teaching Tips: Massachusetts Partnership for Food Safety Education
Why It’s Important To Cool Food Properly: FDA
Why It’s Important To Keep Hot Foods Hot: FDA
Why Wear Gloves: State Food Safety
Caterer’s Notification Form: NBHD Model
Employee Reporting Agreement: MDPH Model
Food Establishment Inspection Report: MDPH Prototype Inspection Report 2018
Foodborne Illness Complaint Worksheet: MDPH 3/14
HACCP Plan Model Form & A Blank Model Hazard Analysis Worksheet
HACCP Annual Plan Verification Report
Holding Time & Temperature Log: State Food Safety
Sanitation Control Daily Record with all 8 Key Sanitation Areas
Sanitation Control Monthly Record
Sanitation Control Periodic Record With 5 of The 8 Key Sanitation Areas
Seafood HACCP Regulation: FDA Appendix 1
Servicing Area Agreement Model Form
Thermometer Calibration Guide: Kansas State University 2000
Fish & Shellfish In Food Service Establishments: FDA & MDPH 2018
Food Code Crosswalk Sheet & Violation Timeline: MDPH August 2024 (JF)
Jellies, Preserve,Fruit Butters, & Related Products Regulation: FDA 21 CFR Sec. 150.110
Good Manufacturing Practices for Food: 105 CMR 500.00
HACCP Plan Regulation: MDPH-FDA
Honey Bees and Related Products Transporting and Selling FAQ: MDAR
Honey In Massachusetts Legal Requirements & Info Links
Ice Cream Truck Permitting 520 CMR 15.00 2/15/13
Labeling Exemptions 21 CFR 101
Labeling Food For Human Consumption CFR 21 PART 101: FDA Nutrition labeling of food.
Latex Glove Use in Retail Food Establishments Guidelines: MDPH 10/1/18
Liquid Nitrogen & Dry Ice In Food: FDA 2017
List of Food Safety Trainers & Exams: MDPH 5/28/24
Massachusetts Merged Food Code 11/16/18
Minimum Labeling requirements For Packaged Food Labeling: MDPH 6/30/15
Minimum Sanitation Standards for Food Establishments 105 CMR 590.000
Mobile Food Establishment Questions and Answers: MDPH
Mobile Food Establishment Food Code Matrix: FDA
Mobile Food Establishments Retail Food Code Standards: MDPH MEMO
Non-Continuous Cooking Of Raw Animal Foods: FDA 3-401.14 11/18
Processing and Bottling of Bottled Drinking Water: FDA 21 CFR Part 129 6/10/24
Potluck Events Advisory: MDPH 8/14
Reduced Oxygen Packaging (ROP) Done Without A Variance: FDA & MDPH 3-502.12
Residential Kitchens Permitting Food code Standards : MDPH 4/19
Residential Kitchen Questions and Answers: MDPH 4/19
Sale of Honey: MA General Law Chapter 128 Section 36B
Standards & Sanitation Requirements For Raw Grade A Milk: 330 CMR 27.00
Temporary Food Establishments Retail Food Code Standards : MDPH 7/19
Time & Temperature Control for Safety Food, Date Marking: 3-501.17
Vending Machines 105 CMR 590.013
Wiping Clothes In Food Service: FDA & MDPH 2018
Tips for Housing Inspections
healthy-homes-checklist
Bed Bugs – Reducing the Risk of Transporting Guidelines: Contra Costa County Bed Bug Task Force 4/09
Boston University Housing Code Checklist (Fillable)
Controlling Excessive Moisture and Mold: Occupant’s Guidance
Controlling Excess Moisture and Mold: Owner’s Guidance
General Administrative Procedures: 105 CMR 400.000
Hoarding: Barnstable County & MHOA 2022
Homeless Shelter Requirements Guidance For Municipalities
Housing Code Checklist: Mass. Law Reform Institute 5/16/23
Housing Inspection Report Form: MDPH Model 1/26/24
Housing & Sanitation Standards For Farm Labor Camps: MDPH 105 CMR 420.000
How to Write an Order to Correct – Public Health Power Hour: FRCOG & Paul Halfmann
Lead Law Occupant Notification Form: MDPH
Lead Poisoning Prevention Control 105cmr460
Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation Sanitary Code: 105 CMR 410.000
Notice of Occupant’s Legal Rights and Responsibilities: MDPH November 2023
Order To Correct: MDPH Model 1/26/24
Pest Control For Occupants Fact Sheet: MDPH 10/2/23
Pest Control For Owners Fact Sheet: MDPH 10/2/23
Rooming House MA Law: Part I Title XVI Chapter 111 Section 199B
Small Filth Fly ID Guide: University of Nebraska
Submetering of Water & Sewer Guidance: MDPH 5/12/23
Stop That Pest! Pest Identification & Control For Regulators: MHOA & Harvard University
Title V Property Transfer Checklist
Accessing GIS Data: DEP 2/2/22
Alternaive Perculation Testing Guidance: MDPH 5/3/06
Breakout, Barriers and Retaining Walls: Claire Golden, MassDEP & MHOA
DEP Field Testing Protocol For Remedial & General Use Innovative/ Alternative Treatment Systems
Keeping Some Confusing Concepts Straight: Claire Golden, MassDEP & MHOA
Massachusetts Watershed Permit Regulations: 314 CMR 21.000 7/7/23
Non-Traditional Onsite Wastewater System Components: Daniel Ottenheimer R.S., P.E. 10/23
Soils and Water Movement: USDA & MHOA 10/25-27/23
The State Environmental Code Title 5 Standard Requirements: 310 CMR 15.000 8/4/2023
Title 5 System Inspector Manual
Title 5 & Watershed Permit Final Regulations: MHOA 10/26/23
BOH Septic Tank Replacement Guide
Bedroom Count Deed Restriction, Grant of Title 5
Bottomless Sand Filter Technology Checklist
DEP Approved Inspection and O&M Form for Title 5 I/A Treatment and Disposal Systems
DEP Inspection and O&M Form and Checklist for Title 5: Greywater Disposal Systems Piloting
Form 1A – Disposal System Construction Permit Application
Form 3 – Certificate of Compliance
Form 8 – Title 5 Enforcement Order
Form 9A – Application for Local Upgrade Approval
Form 9B – Local Upgrade Approval
Form 11 – Soil Suitability Assessment for On-Site Sewage Disposal
Notice of Alternative Sewage Disposal System
