Environmental Health

Environmental health services

Our health and wellbeing are affected by many things: the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and the environment around us all contribute to our quality of life in one way or another.

Our Environmental Health Service enforces a wide range of legislation covering many aspects of public health, including:

• food safety
• health and safety
• public health
• environment and pollution
• contaminated land
• air pollution
• water quality

The service also operates Pest Control and Dog Warden services.

Our Corporate Enforcement Unit is responsible for the detection and prosecution of environmental crime such as:

• fly-tipping
• littering
• dog fouling
• breaches of the smoking legislation

We work closely with other departments within the Council and also with external agencies such as NHS Ayrshire & Arran and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).