• TFEH3001
  • Env Health 1: Professional Stu

  • Credits (ECTS): 5
  • Food Science and Environmental Health
  • Available on Programme(s): DT491

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Overview

Module Description

Professional studies emphasises the functions, activities and procedures used by the State for regulation of environmental health issues and problems in relation to situations not specifically arising in other areas of the programme. The official policies, standards and procedures used by Environmental Health departments to address issues such as nuisances, caravan parks, temporary dwellings, offensive trades, burial grounds and exhumations, common lodging houses, casual trading, derelict sites, places of public resort, communicable diseases, nursing homes, child care facilities, poisons, codes of professional conduct, ethics and confidentiality and the rights and roles of officials are addressed.

Indicative Syllabus

Pre School Facilities
Nursing Homes
Communicable Diseases
Poisons
Exhumations
Nuisances
Derelict Sites
Casual Trading and offensive trades
Caravan Parks and Places of Public Resort
Temporary dwellings and common lodging houses
Rights and roles of officials
Codes of professional conduct, ethics and confidentiality

Total Contact Teaching Hours:36

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