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Environmental health
The Environmental Health Service covers a broad range of
functions that are carried out by two teams:
- Environmental Protection; and
- Food and Safety.
Environmental protection
The Environmental Protection Team is concerned with safeguarding
Medway's surroundings and ensuring that the quality of its
environment is maintained and improved. This covers a broad range
of issues, including dealing with complaints about noise, smells,
dust and smoke. The team enforces controls aimed at minimising the
effect of industry on the local environment and the control of
noise from construction sites. Officers in this team also deal with
drainage issues and carry out animal licensing functions.
Advising Medway Council's planners on environmental health
issues, monitoring air quality and inspecting industrial processes
are part of this team's day to day activities. An increasingly
important aspect of the work relates to areas of land that could have been contaminated
by previous uses. The council has a written programme for
inspecting sites in Medway.
Food and safety
The Food and Safety Team's responsibilities include food safety
and health and safety in:
- offices;
- shops;
- consumer services such as hotel and catering, warehouses, tyre
and exhaust fitters, undertakers, therapeutic and beauty services
and animal care;
- privately-owned leisure and entertainment facilities and
- religious activities.
The team is not responsible for domestic premises or premises
owned by the council.
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