Environmental Health
An Environmental Health Officer’s job involves
anything and everything that affects public health whether at a
local, regional or national level. In practice, on a day-to-day
basis, this means that they use specialist skills to develop,
co-ordinate and implement public health policies designed to ensure
that everyone has the same chance of a better quality of life in a
healthier society.
There are four important aspects to this
work:
- improving food safety and nutrition, (including advising and
inspecting food premises, investigating food poisoning outbreaks
etc)
- improving housing conditions
- improving the environment, (including enforcing environmental
laws on pollution and issuing permits etc)
- improving workplace health and safety (e.g. investigating
accidents at work)
EHO’s might specialise in one of these areas,
or might deal with all environmental health issues in their
particular local authority.
Environmental Health is a graduate profession
so anyone wanting to be an Environmental Health Officer has to pass
a degree accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental
Health (CIEH) at either an undergraduate or postgraduate level.
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Regulatory Services Guide
Environmental Health is part of the Council's
Regulatory Services Team. A guide to the work of our Team can
be downloaded
here.
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