Your Environment

Health protection is responsible for regulating and monitoring many public facilities and those aspects of the environment that have a direct impact on public health. 

Services under the health protection generally fall into two areas:

Environmental health

Protecting human health by managing potential health risks to the population through:

• Food safety
• Drinking water safety
• Recreational water safety
• Personal service establishment safety
• Communicable disease control
• West nile virus planning and response
• Air quality
• Pest management
• Sanitation
• Land use and on-site sewage disposal
• Tobacco control

Community care facilities licensing

Promoting and protecting the health and safety of children and adults in community care facilities such as:

• Adult residential care
• Child and youth residential care
• Child day care facilities