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Environmental Health
Wirral’s Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) use their specialist skills and knowledge to protect and improve the health and living environment of the public and to develop, co-ordinate, implement and enforce public health policies.
We work to ensure that people have a better quality of life and that people live and work within a healthier society.
EHOs are committed towards improving, monitoring and enforcing public health and environmental health standards.
Our main areas of work include:
- Air Quality
- Air/pollution control and odour emissions
- Animal Health
- Animal Welfare at licensed premises (eg Pet Shops)
- Caravan Site Licensing
- Contaminated Land Remediation
- Control of communicable diseases
- Dog Control
- Food Safety
- Health & Safety at Work
- Noise Control
- Pest Control
- Private Housing Conditions
- Water Quality (Drinking water and swimming pools)
See Also
- Animal health and welfare
- Animal welfare services
- Consumer advice
- Dog warden service
- Environmental information regulations
- Fair trading
- Food labelling and composition
- Food production - hygiene
- Food safety - infectious disease investigation
- Food safety - inspections
- Food safety - regulations
- Health and safety - fireworks advice
- Licence - acupuncturist
- Licence - butchers' shop
- Licence - tattoo, piercing and electrolysis
- Refuse - flytipping
- Trading standards - product safety
- Trading standards - retail
- Trading standards - weights and measures