25th June 2009
At least 70,000 jobs could be created across England and Wales if councils slashed climate-changing emissions by insulating homes and businesses and fitting green energy to buildings, according to independent research released by Friends of the Earth today (Thursday 25 June 2009).
19th June 2009
The government must adopt tough new recommendations to ban unsupervised sunbed salons and to prohibit the use of sunbeds by the under 18s, a leading environmental health organisation has said.
12th June 2009
While the World Health Organization (WHO) Phase 6 is significant, it does not mean that WHO thinks the outbreak is more serious; it is simply a measure of the extent of global spread.
2nd June 2009
CIEH extends qualifications delivery in the United Arab Emirates
18th May 2009
Public health could be put at risk unless there is improved availability of products to control public health pesticides in industrialised and disease endemic nations.
1st May 2009
The CIEH will continue to lobby for a ban on the use of sunbeds by under 18’s, despite the publication of HSE guidance to reduce the risks to health of using UV tanning equipment.
20th April 2009
CIEH to participate in major food safety conference in China 2009 04 20 CIEH As part of its drive to develop new partnerships and markets in China, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) will be participating in a
8th April 2009
Following work in 2008, the CIEH wishes to establish a practitioner forum as part of its efforts to move the issue of climate change further up the agenda.
7th April 2009
An international Public Health Pesticides Workshop organised jointly by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) is to be held at the CIEH headquarters in London.
7th April 2009
Environmental health practitioners from across the UK met at Stratford upon Avon for the third annual CIEH/Lacors Environmental Health: The Year Ahead conference on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 April.
30th March 2009
CIEH-registered training centre Ind-Expo Certification (PVT) Ltd has signed up Colombo Municipal Council and the National Cleaner Production Centre as clients for the CIEH food safety and environmental awareness qualifications programme.
26th March 2009
The CIEH has updated the mobile catering guide to help promote best practice in food safety at outdoor events.
24th March 2009
The CIEH and LACORS have released an update to guidance that helps councils continue the positive implementation of smokefree legislation.
19th March 2009
In response to Professor Hugh Pennington’s report, The Public Inquiry into the September 2005 Outbreak of E.coli 0157 in South Wales, Director of CIEH Wales Julie Barratt commented: “Professor Hugh Pennington’s report rightly points out that we owe it to the memory of Mason Jones to learn lessons from this outbreak.
10th March 2009
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has welcomed the new Food Safety Act in China, which comes into force on 1 June 2009.
25th February 2009
65 percent of sunbed salons have either no staff at all or staff were not on hand to provide guidance and prevent the underage from using facilities, a survey by a leading environmental health organisation has found.
25th February 2009
Fifty percent of pub and club owners are failing to protect their staff from excessive noise at work, a survey by a leading environmental health organisation has found.
25th February 2009
A quarter of water features in garden centres could be a health hazard a leading environmental health organisation is warning after analysing water quality from ornamental fountains.
18th February 2009
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has welcomed the successful prosecution of Conservative Club for allowing smoking on its premises.
9th February 2009
A single government department must take active responsibility for supervising and monitoring pest control, a leading environmental health organisation has said today.
9th February 2009
Housing minister Iain Wright said that there is “no room for complacency” in efforts to improve private sector housing as he addressed today a conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).
28th January 2009
Iain Wright, the Parliamentary under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government, is to speak at a conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).
23rd January 2009
Water metering will drive more people into water poverty and threaten public health the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is warning.
23rd January 2009
Director of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Wales Julie Barratt has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC).