With a team of Public Health Inspectors, Tobacco Enforcement Officers, Health Promotion Officers, and Research and Policy Analysts, we:
Inspect and investigate complaints to ensure the following are operating properly:
- restaurants
- swimming and wading pools, spas and splash pads
- nursing homes and daycare centres
- tattoo and body piercing studios and hair salons
- stores that sell tobacco products
- small drinking water systems
Investigate:
- rabies exposures
- foodborne illnesses and community outbreaks
- complaints about prohibited smoking and tobacco sales to under-aged youth
- community concerns related to environmental health issues
Monitor:
- take samples from beaches and from swimming pools to check that you can swim in the water (high levels of bacteria could make you sick)
- check mosquito and tick populations to limit the spread of West Nile Virus, Lyme disease and Eastern Equine Encephalitis
- model and monitor air quality
Educate:
- Food Handler Certification course
- beach test results are posted online during the summer
- environmental health information is posted on our website
- community education on issues such as air quality and children's health and the environment
Research:
- emerging issues related to environmental health such as air quality, climate change and others
