Environmental Public Health Week – September 26 – October 2, 2022

“Strength through collaboration” is this year’s Environmental Public Health Week theme and it recognizes that public health inspectors work collaboratively with partners to control disease, hazards, and injury, and help Canadians stay out of hospitals. Environmental public health professionals use many strategies and interventions to prevent illness and premature death by reducing environmental-related health risks to members of our communities.

Public health inspectors educate and ensure compliance with guidelines and regulations in a variety of program areas including, but not limited to, recreational water, infectious diseases and infection control, food safety, safe drinking water, health hazard response, onsite sewage systems, and rabies prevention and control.

“The work of public health inspectors may not always be seen, but it is always there to protect you and your family,” said Stacey Laforest, director of Health Protection. “Public health inspectors check your favourite restaurants, the public pools and beaches where you and your children swim, and ensure the water you drink is safe. Public health inspectors continued with this very important work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic all the while supporting our pandemic response. We are very proud of our public health inspectors ongoing commitment and dedication to public health.”

For more information about Environmental Public Health Week or the services provided by environmental public health professionals, please call Public Health Sudbury & Districts at 705.522.9200 ext. 398, toll-free at 1.866.522.9200, or visit www.phsd.ca.