Beyond Inspections: Bob Custard’s Playbook for Environmental Health Impact - Ep.29

If “death by PowerPoint” training isn’t changing behavior, you’ll love this one. Cameron sits down with Bob Custard (past NEHA President; Environmental Health Leadership Partners) — a globe-trotting EH trainer who’s worked on everything from MLB clubhouse food safety to global water & sanitation projects, and even won NEHA’s photo contest with a shot of a 1st-century AD public toilet in Ephesus (hello, ancient graywater reuse!).

We cover:

Why hands-on, scenario-based training beats lecturing — and the “Andy Griffith vs. Barney Fife” approach to compliance

Building local Food Safety Advisory Councils that actually help (industry + schools + hospitals + consumers)

Time as a Public Health Control (TPHC) in the wild (farmers markets & rib promos) and how to make it work responsibly

The MLB clubhouse story: virtual inspections, performance nutrition, and preventing team-wide outbreaks

Karst groundwater reality: mapping private well contamination with free lab & rainfall data (what spikes 2–3 days after heavy rain)

Low-cost global wins: biosand filters, color-coded buckets, and teaching WASH where it matters most

The Ephesus latrine: marble seats, running water, vinegar sponges… and what today’s EH can learn from it

Bigger vision, bigger impact: moving beyond “permits & inspections” to problem-solving and partnership

Chapters (add timestamps after upload)
00:00 Cold open & intro
02:00 Bob’s path: geology → restaurants → EH → trainer/consultant
09:30 MLB clubhouse food safety & virtual walk-throughs
15:30 Training that sticks: hands-on, risk-factor focus, people skills
21:30 Advisory councils that actually collaborate (not another meeting)
27:30 Global work: low-tech WASH solutions that save lives
34:00 NEHA photo winner: the Ephesus public toilet & graywater reuse
40:00 Private wells & karst: using free data to map contamination
48:00 Viewer Q: ribs at room temp, TPHC the right way
56:00 Wild stories (colon hydrotherapy next to smoothies?!)
1:03:00 Takeaways, links & how to reach Bob

Guest

Bob Custard — Environmental Health Leadership Partners • Past President, NEHA • AFDO instructor • Global Environmental Health Partnership founder

Contact: [Insert Bob’s preferred email/URL here]

Callouts & Links (add final URLs)

NEHA Environmental Health Leadership Academy

AFDO Retail Program Standards resources

TPHC guidance (holding, logs, discard times)

Private well testing & rainfall timing one-pager

Photos from the Field: submit your inspection pics for a future episode → [submission link]

Housekeeping

Keep Summer Stevens’ father, Bobby, and family in your thoughts. 💙

Thanksgiving break next week — back in two Tuesdays!

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