Food Safety  |  Environmental Protection  |  Public Health and Housing

Health and Safety at Work  |  Licensing  |  Registers  |  Animal Health and Welfare

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The Environmental Health Section deal with issues that affect the quality of everyday life. We aim to promote or enforce standards that preserve public health, public safety and protect the environment.

The work we do includes:

Food Safety

Food Safety includes the inspection of food premises, food sampling and investigating complaints regarding food and hygiene in food premises.  Also, find out how hygienic a local food business is with the Food Hygiene Information Scheme. This page also contains links to further guidance relating to food safety, hygiene and labelling.

Environmental Protection

Environmental Protection includes investigation and monitoring of contaminated land, air quality and noise control.

Public Health and Housing 

The Public Health and Housing Section covers a wide range of issues to improve and safeguard public health. This includes investigation of suspected or confirmed outbreaks of certain diseases, monitoring the quality of drinking water supplies, the Registration of Private Landlords, working with the Health Board to investigate and prevent certain diseases, including food poisoning and dealing with nuisances affecting people’s health.

Health and Safety at Work

Environmental Health enforce the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 in workplaces such as shops, warehouses, offices, places used for leisure and consumer services, hotels, restaurants and churches. Officers carry out inspections of premises, accident investigations and offer advice and guidance to businesses and employees.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) enforce health and safety in a number of other premises such as Manufacturers, Farms, Construction Sites, Local Authority Buildings and hospitals.

Environmental Health Licensing

Environmental Health issue a number of Licenses and registrations including Caravan Sites, Zoos, Riding Establishments, Animal Boarding, Dog Breeding, Dangerous Wild Animals, Cinemas, Theatres, Venison Dealers, Pet Shops etc. For further information on a specific licence or registration or to apply online please visit our A-Z of Licences page.

Registers

Environment Health maintains a number of Public Registers in relation to Licences and registrations issued, which can be viewed online.