Businesses and residents can check out
the work of the environmental health team for Hambleton and
Richmondshire through the service’s first ever joint annual
report.
The team has been operating as a shared
service for the two authorities for the past six months – covering
a range of areas from food and drink safety to licensing and pest
control.
“The environmental health service exists to
help protect and improve the health service of the community and
their environment,” said Environmental Health Manager, Philip
Mepham.
“We are working hard to develop a shared
service between the two authorities - this annual report shows the
level and breadth of services currently operated by the councils as
well as our targets for the coming 12 months.”
There are over 1700 food premises and 2351
workplaces across the two authorities for which the service has
enforcement responsibility including looking at sampling,
investigation of infectious diseases and workplace accidents,
sampling of private water supplies and inspection of animal welfare
premises.
It also looks at air quality, contaminated
land, disabled facilities grants, guidance to private sector
tenants, taxi licensing and street collections and deals with pest
control reports – 1156 requests for help with dealt with in the
last 12 months.
And it carries out health promotion work
including generating a series of newsletters for local tenants and
landlords.
To check out the annual report log on to;
www.hambleton.gov.uk/ehealthreport
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