REHIS Conference Survey
- 22 August 2014
The Annual Conference has given the Institute’s members, colleagues from partner organisations and government agencies and the wider Environmental Health and Public Health communities including REHIS Approved Training Centres the opportunity to meet and to discuss important and topical issues. A great deal of effort has gone into making Annual Conferences relevant and informative for […]
Scottish Green Apple Awards 2014
- 19 August 2014
Falkirk Council scooped the top awards when more than 70 of Scotland’s ‘greenest’ people attended the REHIS sponsored Scottish Green Apple Environment Awards 2014 recently. Falkirk Council scored a stunning hat-trick of success, winning Local Authorities Gold awards for two of their submissions – ‘The Helix’ and the ‘Greenspace Initiative’. On the strength of that double-whammy, […]
Keep Scotland Beautiful ‘Bags of opportunity’
- 12 August 2014
Recently Keep Scotland Beautiful has presented a case to TESCO to receive funding from the single use carrier bag charge in Scotland to support work in communities. Having been shortlisted from hundreds to participate in a public vote and as the only Scottish charity in the final three KSB is asking friends and supporters to […]
World Environmental Health Day
- 20 June 2014
World Environmental Health Day 26 September 2014 26 September has been declared World Environmental Health Day by the International Federation of Environmental Health. This year’s theme is Addressing Environmental Health Inequalities. Full details available at http://www.ifeh.org/wehd/index.html
RAYMOND HUBBOCKS
- 7 June 2014
Training Adviser(Food Safety/Health and Safety) I am delighted to announce that Raymond Hubbocks has been appointed to the post of Training Adviser (Food Safety/Health & Safety). Raymond, currently a member of the Institute’s Council and a Lecturer with Forth Valley College, will take up his post on 30 June and we look forward to welcoming […]
HSE publishes statistics for 2009/10
- 7 June 2014
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual accident and injury statistics for 2009/10. The new figures confirm that Britain has the lowest rate of fatal occupational injuries in Europe and one of the lowest levels of work-related ill health. In Britain between April 2009 and March 2010 there were 152 workers fatally […]
2014 Update – The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Skin Piercing and Tattooing) Order 2006
- 29 May 2014
CIVIC GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1982 Section 44(1)(b), 2 and Schedule 1 Licensing of Skin Piercing and Tattooing Conditions LOCAL AUTHORITY IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE Version 1.7 Scottish Licensing of Skin Piercing and Tattooing Working Group May 2014 The Civic Government(Scotland)Act 1982(Licensing of Skin Piercing and Tattooing)Order 2006 introduces a mandatory licensing scheme for practitioners operating in Scotland who carry out […]
Community Training – Staffing Update
- 22 May 2014
I would like to introduce myself as the Institute’s new Director of Training following the retiral of Graham Walker in March 2014. Graham will be much missed, having been part of REHIS for many years, but I am confident that I will step up to the challenge to continue to strengthen the Institute’s Community Training […]
The John Craigs Student Award
- 16 May 2014
The John Craigs Student Award was introduced to commemorate the life of the late John Craigs and his meritorious service to Port Health. The winner of the award will receive a cheque for £200 and will be invited for an all expenses paid day at the APHA conference, where the award will be presented. Students […]
Annual Scottish Faculty of Public Health Conference-“Health in a Changing Scotland: The ball’s in our court” – Call for Abstracts
- 13 May 2014
Annual Public Health Conference – “Health in a Changing Scotland: The ball’s in our court” Thursday 6th and Friday 7th November 2014 Macdonald Aviemore Resort The Faculty of Public Health are now accepting abstracts for this year’s conference. Please find attached the Call for Abstracts brochure. This will provide you with more information about the conference […]
Conference success!
- 9 May 2014
A big thank you to all the delegates, speakers, session chairmen, guests and staff for making this year’s Annual Conference such a success. We heard twenty excellent papers, were honoured to have Michael Matheson MSP Minister of Public Health with us to deliver his Ministerial Address, raised £500.00 for the Famine Relief for Orphans in […]
REHIS Training Adviser post
- 2 May 2014
REHIS is seeking a part time (21 hour) Training Adviser to provide support to its prospective and Approved Training Centres and to monitor, review and evaluate the provision of training and examinations by REHIS Centres. See the attached documents for more information on how to apply and an outline of duties or go to the […]
