Environmental Health

What is it?

This service supports the information needs of Environmental health professionals.

Who is it for?

This service is primarily targeted at Environmental health practitioners in local authorities and the armed services and other related professionals.

What topics are covered?

The service covers the full extent of topics required by environmental health professionals. Topics covered include:

• communicable diseases: eg gastro-enteritis outbreaks and other infectious disease incidents linked to epidemics
• emergency planning eg: flooding, industrial accidents with community impact, civil emergency, including terrorist acts
• housing standards, including: houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), housing renovation, grants, radon
• general registration and licensing, including: public entertainment, pet shops, dog breeding and boarding, riding establishments, theatres, cinemas, petroleum, special treatments (tattooing, body piercing, beauty therapies etc), Sunday trading, public health pest control (including rats, mice, cockroaches, pharaoh ants, flies, pigeons, feral cats and dogs).

What information sources does it contain?

Our services contain collections of documents from hundreds of publishers. Some of the key publishers included in this service are:

• national and EU legislatures
• government departments
• Royal Courts of Justice (ie, case law)
• BSI - British Standards Institution
• HSE – The Health and Safety Executive
• LGA - Local Government Association
• LACORS - The Local Authority Coordinators of Regulatory Services
• NRPB - National Radiological Protection Board
• Health Protection Agency
• WHO - World Health Organization
• BRE - Building Research Establishment
• Butterworths, Blackwells, Gower, etc
• CIEH - Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
• Pigeon Control Advisory Service.

What does a subscription include?

A choice of data sets relevant to you:

Plus:

• powerful, flexible search across all Barbour data sets
• download full text documents from subscribed data sets
• facility to print, copy and paste from downloaded documents
• weekly e-mail briefing service
• frequent updating of online service
• bookmark, saved search, hot search, news feeds and other tools
• access to CPD seminars, webinars and briefing notes.

To find out more...

Contact our customer services department:

• click on Contact Us and fill in your details
• call us on 01344 899280.

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