South West Public Health Tutorial Programmes

Tuesday 17th February 2005 - Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
Environmental aspects of public health

Programme 

09:30	Tea and coffee on arrival
10:00	Welcome and learning objectives
10:05	Environmental Health 2012 – A key partner in delivering the public health agenda. Ian Gray, Policy Officer - Health Development, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
10:35	What does an Environmental Health Practitioner Do? or …It’s not a Life of Grime. Stephen Young, Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards, Bath and North East Somerset Council
10:55	Questions
11:15	Coffee
11:30	Non Infectious Public Health Hazards Mike Studden, Environmental Hazards Manager, Health Protection Agency, South West Region
12:00	The Environment Agency – health and industry. Chris Smith, Policy Adviser, Human Health,Environment Agency, South West
12:30	Questions
12:50	Lunch
13.30	Groupwork How can environmental health and public health work in partnership?
14:20	Feedback from group work
14:40	Chemical Incident Risks from Licensed Industry and the Geographical Distribution of these in relation to Social Deprivation. Paul Scott, Public Health Specialist Trainee, Mendip PCT
15:10	Handling a Chemical Tanker Incident. Caryn Hall, Public Health Specialist Trainee, Cotswold and Vale PCT
15:40	Questions
16. 00	Close

Learning Objectives

 

To gain an understanding of the roles of the Environmental Health Practitioner and Environment Agency Officer

 

To understand how Local Authorities and Environment Agency can work with public health

 

To identify areas where Environmental Health and Public Health can work in partnership

 

Relevant RITA competencies

 

2.6       Understand the role of others in the control of infection, including environmental health…

 

2.13    Understand the potential health effects of exposure to non-infectious environmental hazards, including risk assessment and management

 

2.14    Be familiar with the general principles of emergency planning and managing a chemical incident, including the role and legal responsibility of the local department of health and other agencies

 

4.1       Recognise and value the potential contribution to improving health made by different agencies: health and other – in public, private and voluntary sectors

 

4.4       Understand, contribute to and value the work of local authorities and their role in improving the public health

 

7.4       Understand the importance of addressing the wider determinants of health within communities eg housing, employment and education

 

7.5       Identify and engage key stakeholders and partners for effective public health practice

 

 

Environmental Health

For more information visit the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health www.cieh.org

 

Environment Agency

For more information visit the Environment Agency website www.environment-agency.gov.uk

 

 

A further key document of interest for the day is “Environmental Health 2012: A Key Partner in delivering the Public Health Agenda”.

 

Available from http://www.cieh.net/dload/cieh/environmental_health_2012.pdf

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