Edel Queen

• Conducted comprehensive food safety assessments and inspections across diverse establishments to ensure compliance with Food Act 2008.
• Investigated environmental health complaints, including noise, pollution, and food hygiene, providing timely resolutions and guidance to stakeholders.
• Reviewed and processed applications for permits and licenses such as waste water system and events, ensuring adherence to relevant legislation and standards.
• Identified and mitigated risks in hazardous waste disposal, preventing harm to the environment and local communities.
• Implemented and managed environmental sampling programs, including water quality, air monitoring, and food sampling, to safeguard community health.
• Conducted compliance inspections such as public buildings and responded to complaints including noise and dust.

As an Environmental Health Assistant, my role mainly involved overseeing compliance of aquatic facilities, inspection of skin penetration premises and processing of food vendor applications

• Conducted routine and targeted water quality sampling for public and commercial pools to ensure compliance with public health standards
• Conducted regular inspections of aquatic facilities, including public pools, spas, and water playgrounds, ensuring compliance in accordance with the Code of Practice.
• Provide information to customers in line with environmental health matters consistent with the City’s guidelines and procedures
• Foster, advocate and implement the City’s customer service charter
• Maintained accurate records of all inspections, investigations, and enforcement actions taken in relation to environmental health matters.

• In this role, my work involved undertaking and overseeing all the projects to improve the environmental health conditions affecting the health of people living in remote communities
• Assist to investigate, assess, determine, and resolve public and environmental health issues in accordance with the Health Act 1911 (WA)
• Investigate Aboriginal environmental health clinical referrals in communities
• Conducted inspections in houses (squalor) for living conditions and took the necessary actions to ensure that the environmental health issues are resolved
• Conduct mosquito surveillance activities including, managing, and taking samples from Sentinel chicken, pigs and mosquito trapping to monitor mosquito-borne diseases
• Lead the ‘Fight the Bite’ campaign activities within the Shire of Halls Creek
• Developed health education and health promotion plans in conjunction with the Health and Regulatory Services team and other stakeholders for the whole district of the Shire of Halls Creek, with an emphasis on rural and remote Aboriginal communities
• Conducted annual community survey to measure the environmental health conditions, healthy living practices and standards of each specified community such as the implementation and annual evaluation of all programs and projects and monitoring of healthy living practices in the community against baseline data
• Writing reports for the various projects being implemented, managing budgets, seeking funding and preparing financial acquittals for funding received through various organisations
• Ran community training courses and workshops in areas such as hygiene, food safety, healthy housing, pest and vector control, accident prevention, communicable diseases and chronic systemic diseases
• Developed and implemented a Community Environmental Health Action Plan (CEHAP) for each of the major communities and review each of the plans
• Planned, implemented and evaluated the Healthy People in Healthy Homes project funded by the Department of Health