Health Protection

Health Protection Service

Our health and well-being can be affected detrimentally by the surroundings in which we live. Over the last 100 years the impact of man on his environment has increasingly created problems some of which are only now being fully recognised.

The Health Protection Service is concerned with ensuring that statutes designed to protect public health are complied with and recommendations and guidelines followed. The service actively promotes good environmental health practice and provides health advice to the public and other agencies.

Our Health Protection team can help with a range of issues including:

Food safety—including the investigation of food complaints and food poisoning; and the development of food safety programmes.
Communicable disease advice including overseas travel
Lead poisoning, lead paint testing and removal
Drinking water quality
Exotic mosquitos
Recreational water quality, including swimming pools
Toxic algae
Shellfish safety
Asbestos removal
Hazardous substance control including the storage and sale of poisons
Contaminated sites
Resource Management Act compliance

Contact

Health Protection Team
Wairarapa Public Health
Blair Street, Masterton
(Behind Wairarapa Hospital)
Po Box 96
MASTERTON

Phone: (06) 946 9813
Fax: (06) 946 9826

Cell phone: (027) 248 1384
After hours: (06) 946 9800 for the on-call Health Protection Officer
Email