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Health and Environmental Services
Health
Environmental Health relates to the practice of managing the health risks of a community. Health Services has several programs that assess and manage risks, as well as providing direction and education to the community. Health Services is also responsible for all of Council’s waste management services and strives to provide a prompt, efficient and reliable waste management services.
Some of the programs managed by Health Services include:
- Risk assessment and approval of food premises including restaurants, take away shops, lunch bars, pubs, etc.
- Risk assessment and approval of public events and buildings.
- Risk assessment and approval of on-site effluent disposal systems such as septic tanks, ATUs and grey water systems.
- Investigation of noise nuisances.
- Investigation of communicable diseases.
- Investigation of health nuisances including pests and odour.
- Monitoring of public swimming pools and river sampling.
- Risk assessment and monitoring of vectors of disease such as mosquitoes.
An Environmental Health Officer is available to provide advice on public and environmental health matters.
Waste Management Services include weekly 240 litre waste collection, a fortnightly 240 litre recycling bin collection, household hazardous waste collections, bulk rubbish and green waste collections.
Environmental Services
The Town is actively involved in projects that reduce carbon emissions, energy and water consumption that result from its own actions and those within the wider community. Environmental Services also assists with many of the issues surrounding the management of contaminated sites and coordinates the monitoring of drainage water quality.
The protection and rehabilitation of the Town’s remaining bushland areas is very important to the Council and Environmental Services assist in co-ordinating and implementing the:
- Town’s Operational plan for Natural Areas;
- Town’s Environmental Plan; and
- Collective Local Biodiversity Strategy.
An aspect of protecting the Town’s bushland is encouraging the community to ‘plant local’ – and this is achieved through public education and through the annual ‘plants to residents’ scheme which provides subsidised plants to residents every year towards the start of the winter rains.
An Environmental Officer is available to provide advice on public and environmental matters.
Information sheets
Information sheets are available for:
- Asbestos removal
- Bird control
- Catering for Special events
- Cities for Climate Protection (CCP)
- Composting
- Food premises and food monitoring
- FoodSafe
- Infectious diseases and communicable diseases
- Noise
- Nuisance cats
- Pests
- Public building safety
- Public swimming pools
- Regional environmental strategies
- Rubbish and recycling
- Septic tanks and effluent disposal
- Verge collections
- Wood heaters
Other areas which are investigated by Health and Environmental Services include:
- Lighting and ventilation of dwellings and public buildings
- Hairdressing establishments and skin penetration establishments
- Maintenance and condition of dwellings
- Offensive trades
- Nuisances
- Pet food premises
- Food labeling premises
- Burning off
Opening hours
8.30am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday
Location
48 Old Perth Road, Bassendean, WA 6054
Contacts
- Tel: 9377 8000
- Fax: 9279 4257
- Email: mail@bassendean.wa.gov.au
- Web: www.bassendean.wa.gov.au
Manager
Christine Devereux
Business Unit
Health & Ranger Services
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