2018-08-07 Services and Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               7 AUGUST 2018


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                          RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                        THE NEXT QUARTER
WASTE & ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH
Waste
Refer to six monthly financial report in this month’s Services and Organisational
Committee agenda
Business as Usual activities
Environmental Health
Develop Inspection program and fees for       Council has agreed in principle to           Develop an industry                     Provide industry communication on
deemed approvals and deleted ERA’s for          introduce a special charge on                  communication strategy                    the introduction of a special charge
further action required by Environmental        commercial properties involved with
Health in accordance with Local Law 1           industries identified as potentially
proposed amendments                             having environmental impact
                                                activities. The special charge would
                                                be introduced for the 2019/20 financial
                                                year
Develop and commence implementation           Fees are available for charging for the      Awaiting finalised pool monitoring      Develop monitoring program once
of Inspection program with fees for             inspection of pools in the 2018/19             program guidelines from                   the new guidelines have been
Licensing of commercial swimming pools          financial year                                 Queensland Health to enable               received
(under Local Law 1 which is to be                                                              identification of pool types to be
amended for this undertaking)                                                                  targeted.
                                                                                             Progress the local law amendment
                                                                                             Further pool operator training for
                                                                                               staff once the training program is
                                                                                               made available
Develop and implement a risk based            Queensland Health have revised the           Carry out inspections based on the      On going
food business licensing and inspection          food premises inspection frequency             new risk based categories
system                                          expectations. It was thought that low
                                                risk premises could be every 18
                                                months, however all premises now
                                                need to be inspected annually.
                                              Certain premises such as new
                                                premises/new proprietor, and
                                                premises with serious food risk issues
                                                will trigger 6 monthly inspections.
                                              Market stall inspections are now every
                                                6 months given the temporary set ups
                                                tend to be higher risk.


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