Health promotion

The work of the Environmental Health team includes that of health promotion. Within food hygiene we promote the safe handling of food in the home using various hygiene messages to include hand hygiene, four Cs (cleaning, cooking, cooling and avoiding cross contamination). The approach builds on our successes to date and has particular focus on nurseries, schools and community groups. These are groups where we are most likely to have the largest impact in terms of food hygiene behaviour. Studies have shown that children, for example, who understand the link between food hygiene and food poisoning, are more likely to engage in good practice.

Click on the links at the side to see details of the projects undertaken and proposed.

• Nutrition initiative with nurseries
• Hand washing talks to primary school children
• 4 Cs talks to community groups
• 4 Cs resource pack to primary key stage two, year five to six and secondary year six to seven
• The big hygiene book - food hygiene for nurseries, key stage one children, reception, years one and two

This page was last updated on 12 April 2011