Sanitation Section

The Officers that operates from this section are Environmental Health Officers [EHOs] and their support Clerical Officers. The Key activities performed by these EHOs are:

Sanitary Improvements on Rateable Properties

1. Inspections of:

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Educational and undeveloped properties

• Residential,
• Commercial,
• Industrial,
• Educational and undeveloped properties (vacant lots)
2. Inspections of:

Hotels	Boarding Houses	Homestays
Restaurants	Refreshment Bars	Coffee Shops
Butcher Shops	Bakeries	Food Kitchens
Aerated Water Factories	Food Processing Factories	Drinking Water Bottling Factories
Chiropodists Shops	Beauty Salons	Massage Parlors
Kava Pounding Premises	Hairdresser Shops	Supermarkets/Grocery Retail Shops

• Hotels,
• Boarding Houses,
• Homestays,
• Restaurants,
• Refreshment Bars,
• Coffee Shops
• Restaurants,
• Refreshment Bars,
• Coffee Shops
• Butcher Shops,
• Bakeries,
• Food Kitchens,
• Aerated Water Factories,
• Kava Pounding Premises,
• Food Processing Factories,
• Drinking Water Bottling Factories,
• Ice-cream Factories,
• Hairdresser Shops,
• Chiropodists Shops,
• Beauty Salons,
• Massage Parlors,
• Supermarkets/Grocery Retail Shops,

Litter Prevention

1. General public awareness for proper rubbish disposal methods
2. Litter inspections and bookings of offenders

Processing of Development Applications & Building Applications

1. Scrutinize the building plans for conformance of the relevant legislations.
2. Health comments are entered in the respective building files for applicants to attend to
3. Recommend for approvals after the comments are satisfactorily attended to
4. Site inspections in view of issuance of completion certificates or
5. Site inspections in view of issuance of temporary occupancy of premises other than a Food Business Operation [FBO]

Food Safety

1. Inspections of:

Restaurants	Refreshment Bars	Coffee shops
Taverns	Night clubs	Liquor Bottles shops
Butcher shops	Bakeries	Food kitchens
Aerated Water factories	Other Food Processing factories	Drinking Water Bottling factories
Kava Pounding premises	Ice-Cream factories	School Canteens
Supermarkets	Grocery Retail shops	Market Food stalls
Bean carts	hawkers & street traders operations

• restaurants,
• refreshment bars,
• coffee shops,
• taverns,
• night clubs,
• liquor bottles shops,
• butcher shops,
• bakeries,
• food kitchens,
• aerated water factories,
• kava pounding premises,
• other food processing factories,
• drinking water bottling factories,
• Ice- cream factories,
• school canteens,
• supermarkets/ grocery retail shops,
• market food stalls,
• bean carts,
• hawkers & street traders operations
2. Condemnations of unsound food
3. Investigations of verified reported cases of food poisoning

Pollution Control

• Referrals to the appropriate Departments are made upon receipt of complains otherwise the issues are dealt by the Council.

Processing of Business License Applications (New and Renewal)

1. Business license applications go through health inspections as well to ensure compliance
• The premises is conducive to the nature of business being applied for
• Good lighting system & adequate/ suitable mode of ventilation
• Provision of proper garbage bins as per regulations
• Provision of adequate sanitary facilities
• Intended place of business must be clean
• Prosecutorial

Restaurant Grading

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Mosquito Control

1. Inspections of undeveloped properties ( vacant lots)
2. Mosquito larvae survey

Customer Services

1. General enquiries
2. Attend to health related complaints for abatement of nuisances.

Schedule 4

LETTER GRADE CARDS

(Regulation 5)

GRADE A

GRADE B

GRADE C

GRADE D

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