Environmental Health and Health Equalities Services
Safeguarding and improving public health and safety.
We provide a wide range of services, to find out more about a particular service, please click on the link on the right.
Free Health and Safety Training for Caravan Site Operators
Caravan site operators and proprietors of Holiday Parks have been invited to a half day training event focused on some of the leading health and safety issues they have to consider.
The event in Ladram Bay, East Devon on the 28th of January is one of a series of events being run across Devon and Cornwall in partnership with the Health and Safety Executive and South West Tourism.
The event will cover electrical and gas safety, fire and policing matters, play equipment safety, asbestos and legionella management. More information is available in the brochure for the event which you can 
download here (978KB - PDF Help).
Environmental Health Performance Report
We are determined to provide the best environmental health service possible to our businesses, residents and visitors in East Devon. As such we constantly review the quality of our service by monitoring our response times and asking our customers for their opinions through a service request or inspection questionnaire sent after our contact with them. If you would like to see what information we collect and what it is telling us, please read our report summary
You can also download a copy of our Customer Charter (258KB - PDF Help)
Highlighting the work of Food Inspectors for school children
Following the great success of last year, the Commercial Team will be taking part in the second "11 Million Take Over Day" the Council will be organizing for year six primary school children. The Team will again take over the council kitchens for the day and spend some time making them in to a "kitchen from hell" with out of date and 'off' food, cigarette ends and evidence of pest infestations. Some of the team we will be acting out scenes of food preparation while creating some serious cross contamination risks and other examples of poor hygiene practices, and asking the children to spot the hazards.
Neighbourhood Assessment
The Environment Protection Team are carrying out continuing joint ventures with a number of partners to find out whether the residents of East Devon have any concerns about their local area, and whether they think they are a good place to live.
Environmental Health staff, local Police Officers and Health Protection Agency staff have already carried out door to door surveys in seven of our larger towns. Recently we started surveys in some of the very small villages and out of the way hamlets across the district that could have greater problems accessing Coucil services, to see what sorts of problems they have, and how to help them solve them. The process has helped the various agencies in the District to improve communication and co-operation in dealing with issues.
The results of all of the assessment can be found here
If you would like more information on this please contact Debbie Challis on 01395 571570, or click the "Contact us online" icon at the top of this page.
Last updated 15th October 2009
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- Animals, Birds and Pests
- Burials and Cremations
- Energy Efficiency & Savings
- Food Hygiene and Safety
- Drainage
- Pollution/Bonfires
- Health and Safety
- Contaminated Land/Radon
- Private Sector Housing Team
- Noise Nuisances
- EdgeAhead Award Winners
- Customer Satisfaction - Environmental Health Performance
- Warm Zone, Cosy Devon & Warm Front
- Coping with Cold Weather
- Gypsies and travellers
- Asbestos in domestic premises
- Private Water Supplies
- Motor Vehicle Salvage Operators and Scrap Metal Dealers
- Cooling Tower notification
- Skin Piercing
- Houses In Multiple Occupation (HiMOs)
- Camping site licence
- Caravan Site licence
