Food and Health & Safety Service Plan 2024-25 - Flipbook - Page 5
1.0 Service Aims
1.1 Aims
Food and Health & Safety
The Food and Safety Team aims:
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To ensure food businesses have adequate arrangements in place to enable safe and
hygienic food production and handling.
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To control the spread of infectious diseases through the investigation of cases and
outbreaks.
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To secure and maintain a safe and healthy environment in those establishments for
which we have health and safety enforcement responsibility.
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To support businesses by providing food/health export certiocation.
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To provide advice and assistance to businesses and consumers.
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To ensure healthier environments where everyone can socialise, relax, travel, shop
and work free from any second-hand smoke
Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority
Sufolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) aims to uphold the protection of public and
animal health, as well as controls on organic products and illegal, unreported and
unregulated oshing, as one of the UK9s biggest port health authorities. It achieves this by
performing essential checks on food, feed and animal-origin products imported to the
Port of Felixstowe, Harwich International Port and the Port of Ipswich for entry into the
UK. This is in addition to carrying out ship sanitation certiocation and infectious disease
controls, contributing to Britain9s biosecurity measures at the border.
Corporate Health and Safety
The Corporate Health and Safety Team aims to provide competent advice, guidance,
support and training in matters relating to health and safety in respect of all the Council9s
employees, activities and workplaces. This enables the Council to comply with its legal
obligation to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare
of all its employees and the health and safety of anyone who might be afected by the
Council9s activities.
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