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Environmental Health Department
The Environmental Health Department aims to facilitate the provision of
a cleaner, safer and healthier place to live and work, and the development
of a more responsible and aware public, conscious of the health and environmental
impacts associated with behaviour and lifestyle.
Projects/initiatives that will be undertaken by
the department include:
- Asbestos Safety Information [more>]
- Gas Wise Initiative [more>]
- Working at Height [more>]
- Animal Shelter [more>]
- Foyle Regional Energy Agency [more>]
- Review of Council Policy on telecommunications masts [more>]
- Stage 2 Air Quality Review and Assessment [more>]
- Health and Safety Information and Advice Centre at Central Library,
Foyle Street [more>]
- Seminars: Forklift Truck Safety [more>]
- Under Age Smoking
- Health Promoting Schools Award
Services Provided by Environmental Health Department
- Food Control/Infectious Diseases Team - Inspects
all food premises; investigates all food complaints; provides education
& training for food handlers; samples foods for analysis; provides
support to WHSSB on food poisoning outbreaks and certain infectious
diseases.
- Health & Safety/Consumer Safety Team - Enforces
H & S legislation; investigates accidents; provides Health and
Safety, Home Safety and Consumer Safety advisory service; deals with
alerts regarding unsafe Consumer goods.
Click here to view more information
- Pollution Control Team - Deals with complaints
regarding air pollution and commercial and industrial noise pollution:
monitors air pollution, swimming pools and environmental radiation;
provides advice on a wide spectrum of environmental matters; authorises
and regulates industries capable of causing air pollution.
- Public Health Protection Team - Responds to complaints
regarding dogs, pests, public health nuisances, domestic noise complaints
& illegal evictions.
Standards to be Expected
- Inspections of food premises in accordance with Food Standards Agency
Codes of Practice
- Health and Safety inspections in accordance with Health and Safety
Local Authority Unit recommendations
- Response to complaints and other notifications/alerts within nationally
agreed timescales
- Response to planning consultations within the time specified by
the Local Planning Office
- Procurement of a minimum of 250 chemical and 200 bacterial food
samples per year
- Immediate response to complaints of attacks by dogs on people or
livestock
Other Links
Click here
to visit the website for Western Investing for Health. The aim of this
website is to provide you with information relating to the Investing For
Health programme in the Western Area. You can find information on our
aims and objectives, action research and consultation reports as well
as other areas of interest within this site. www.westernifh.org
Northern Ireland Radiation Monitoring Coordinating Committee.
The NIRMCC scheme began in 1985 and is concerned with monitoring environmental
radioactivity particularly because of the relative proximity to the Sellafield
reprocessing plant in Cumbria.
Click here to view website. http://www.nirmcc.org.uk/
Contact
Chief Environmental Health Officer
Philip O’Doherty
Tel. 028 7137 6649
Fax. 028 7126 6009
Email - Philip.ODoherty@derrycity.gov.uk
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