Public health

The Environmental Sustainability and Health Team constantly works to maintain and promote improvements in public and environmental health for the community. This is achieved by encouraging best practice for businesses and ensuring legislative standards are enforced.

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Practitioners have traditionally associated Environmental Health with the "public health" movement. However, environmental health has progressed towards ecologically sustainable development. It is from this perspective that the new environmental health agenda has been set.

Environmental Health areas covered include:

Food safety
Microbial control
Regulation of skin penetration activities
Burials at Council cemeteries
Commercial public swimming pool water quality.