Improving and protecting health and wellbeing in Scotland through education, training and qualifications in Environmental Health
This year´s Law Enforcement course will be held over the weekend of Friday 19 to Sunday 21 February. There are still places available at this popular event. Bookings are now being taken and full details can be found by clicking on ‘REHIS LAW ENFORCEMENT COURSE’ under ‘Upcoming Events´ on this page.
30 local authority Student EHO Training Officers participated in a seminar in Edinburgh on 11 February in Edinburgh. A series of excellent presentations covering the REHIS perspective, the training adviser’s perspective, the examiner perspective and the local authority perspective were given by Robert Howe (Director of Professional Development), Ian McGruther (Training Adviser), Graham Robertson (Examiner) and Tom Stirling (City of Edinburgh Council Student EHO Training Officer. The event was hosted by REHIS and chaired by the genial John Sleith, the Chairman of the Institute’s Examinations and Professional Standards Committee. The event was well received by the delegates all of whom made a positive contribution to the discussions which followed.
A range of single module classes in a wide range of topics is available at the University of Strathclyde. Topics of interest to EH professionals include air pollution control, strategic environmental assessment, environmental impact assessment, environmental management systems, food inspection/food control, food safety and hygiene, housing policy and law, infection and vector control, occupational health and toxicology, public health studies, recycling urban land, water quality and health, site investigation and risk assessment. For further details contact j.j.andrews@strath.ac.uk or visit http://www.strath.ac.uk/dlcs/cpd_courses/
The January 2010 edition of the REHIS e-Newsletter ‘News for Public Health Professionals’ has been uploaded to this website and is accessible from the dedicated portal “LATEST NEWSLETTER” to the right of this news item.If you wish to feature an environmental health or public health initiative, event or activity in the e-Newsletter please contact Tom Bell, Chief Executive on 0131 225 6999 or tb@
The October/November edition of the REHIS e-Newsletter ‘News for Public Health Professionals’ has been uploaded to this website and is accessible from the dedicated portal to the left of this news item. If you wish to feature an environmental health or public health initiative, event or activity in the e-Newsletter please contact Tom Bell, Chief Executive on 0131 225 6999 or tb@
The President,members of Council and members of staff at REHIS wish everyone in the Scottish and international environmental health community a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The deadline for 2009 submissions is 31 January 2010. Please note: Regulations require the submission of corroborating evidence of participation in all CPD activities
Members can now access their existing web records from 2006 and update their CPD entries.
This can be achieved by clicking on “My account” and then on “My CPD Entries” and by following the relevant links.Information entered here will be transferred onto a REHIS CPD form which can be downloaded as a pdf file and then printed. Adobe reader is required for this task.Download it at http://get.adobe.com/reader/
The completed list of CPD activities can then be printed out and sent to REHIS along with the required corroborating evidence for all CPD activities.
Members who wish to complete the CPD card manually can download a blank copy which is available in the Members’ area of the website.
The September edition of the REHIS e-Newsletter ‘News for Public Health Professionals’ has been uploaded to this website and is accessible from the dedicated portal to the left of this news item. If you wish to feature an environmental health or public health initiative, event or activity in the e-Newsletter please contact Tom Bell, Chief Executive on 0131 225 6999 or tb@
In order to fully access the site, members and training centres need to login with a new user name and password. User names and passwords used on the previous website are no longer valid. E-mails were sent out with these details to those members whose e-mails were supplied to us.
Please email contact@ with your name, centre name (if relevant) and email address, in order to receive your new details, or if you have forgotten them.
Tom Bell
Chief Executive
Professor Hugh Pennington is expressing his concerns at any future cuts in local government affecting food enforcement. At the annual Food Update course for food enforcers held by REHIS, Professor Pennington highlights the need for a robust force of environmental health officers and food safety officers to help minimise food poisoning outbreaks. His presentation covers the lessons to be learned for the outbreak of E coli O157 in South Wales in 2005 and the previous Central Scotland outbreak.
I am delighted to be able to advise you that Robert Howe has been appointed to the position of Director of Professional Development and will take up his post early in the New Year. Robert will bring additional experience, expertise and professionalism to the Institute´s office and I look forward to him joining us and to working with him. Tom Bell Chief Executive
Rod House, a Fellow of the Institute and a Chartered EHO, has been installed as the REHIS President for the coming year. Colin Wallace, who stood down as President, handed over of the Chain of Office at the Institute’s Annual General Meeting on 19th November in Edinburgh. The first meeting of the new Council takes place on Saturday 5 December. John Beveridge, a past President and a long standing member of the Council, did not seek re-election to the Council and the Institute offers its sincere thanks to John and wishes him all the best for the future. The Institute also offers its thanks to Christine Morrison for her contribution to the work of the Council. Christine qualified as an Environmental Health Officer at the November diet of the Professional Examination and had to retire from her position as a representative of the ‘Other than EHO’ category of the membership.
