Environmental Health & Animal Management
The animal management program is responsible for dog licensing and control. Activities include dog registrations, applications for kennel licences, investigation and action on complaints about barking dogs, roaming animals or dog attacks.
The environmental health program provides inspection and assessment services to protect public health and includes the following activities:
- food safety
- noise nuisance management
- disease prevention and control
- public health education and promotion
- assessment of applications for public gatherings such as festivals
- unhealthy premises
- cooling towers and warm water systems
- public health risk activities
- administering school and community immunisations programs
- exhumations
- onsite waste water management
- recreational and bathing water quality
- responding to public and environmental health complaints
- air, water and land pollution
- smoke-free public places
Consultation has concluded
