Protecting Your Health In The Community

Environmental Health provides for and promotes public health and safety by:

• Assessing land-use consents for potential or existing contaminated sites
• Registering, licensing and inspecting food premises, hairdressers, camping grounds, funeral homes (funeral directors), skin piercers, beauty facilities, acupuncturists, tattooists, public swimming and spa pools, markets, mobile food shops and food stalls at events
• Investigating and abating health nuisances
• Assessing the possible health risks of new mobile phone cell tower sites
• Providing advice on the decontamination of P labs
• Investigating suspected private sewer overflows
• Carrying out investigations of sites emitting unreasonable or excessive noise as well as taking noise measurements and noise surveys throughout the city
• Sampling roof water quality for private dwellings on tank supply
• Providing food handler training in basic food hygiene.
• Investigating complaints about odours resulting from rubbish, dumping or food outlets where the odour is caused by unsafe food practices for example rotting food, dirt and dumping.*