Health Inspectorate

• That is food hygiene and food safety – maintain and Update a register of food premises and trade premises, inspect and swabbing of food premises and food sampling. Conduct one visit per month, swab as necessary, random sampling of food, 5 per week.
• Licensing and registration – scrutinize and comment on all food premises plans, inspection of trade premises, health institutions, crèches, pre-schools, residential premises, enforce by laws.
• Water quality control – select consumer sampling points in relation to who standards, that is 201 samples per month. Collect water samples and send for analysis.
• And control of environmental pollution – set out emissions standards for pollutants. Air quality sampling and smoke observation. Approval and inspection of stationery fuel burning appliances and sources.

Cleansing Services

• Effective solid waste management – refuse removal and disposal; review number of tasks carried out per day, removal schedule for domestic and industrial areas, e.g. weekly domestic, daily, or 3 x per week shopping areas. Ensure sanitary disposal of waste, adequate cover and compaction daily, prepare new tipping cells as the old ones fill up and provide for leachate control.
• Reduce littering and illegal dumping – provide refuse receptacles and provide skip bins in areas generating high volumes of refuse, e.g. markets, shopping areas. Run anti-litter campaigns coupled with markets, shopping areas. Monitor contractors cleaning streets, shopping areas and sanitary lanes daily.
• Dog patrols and licensing – conduct dog patrols and issue dog notices. Educate on need to vaccinate and licence dogs.
• And public conveniences – maintain in a clean and good state of repair, provide cleaning materials, and repair faulty closets. Cleaned twice daily and when necessary usage areas, for example bus stops.

Pest Control

• Mosquitoes – larviciding of water bodies, stream bank clearing, spraying rural buses.
• Rodents – baiting along the rodent control belt, clearing vacant stands and catching rodents for species identification.

Cemeteries and Crematorium

• Cemetery maintenance and grave digging contracted out.
• Department’s role – monitor output (sufficient graves) monitor the quality (comply with standards), monitor grass cutting and bush clearing and provide for cremations.