At the City, our work involves assessing risks, enforcing regulations, and educating businesses and the community about environmental health concerns. 

The following are a broad range of activities we undertake.

Register, license, and inspect premises includes:

• Food businesses that handle, prepare, package, store, serve, or supply food must register or notify under the Food Act, to ensure food safety, processes and the food produced are safe for consumption and comply with hygiene standards.

  Food businesses include hospitals, aged cares, day cares, to restaurants and cafes, to manufacturers, large supermarkets, greengrocers to the corner store, service stations, to mobile food vehicles, our community groups, and sports clubs to home businesses, to events and temporary food operations.

• Beauty premises which includes activities such as hairdressing, beauty therapy (including waxing, threading, manicures/pedicures, laser, Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), spray tanning, eyelash extensions etc), body piercing, colonic irrigation or tattooing.
• Accommodation premises includes hotels, motels, hostels, rooming houses, student dormitories, labour hire accommodation, some bed and breakfast operations.

Other activities:

• Food sampling - The Victorian Food Act 1984 requires councils to take food samples. The City take food samples from a variety of businesses throughout the year and send to the laboratory for analysis. This analysis either confirms that food is safe and suitable, or it identifies issues with safety or suitability, which is then followed up with the food business.
• Complaint investigations relating to businesses including – food, odour, noise, asbestos, pollution,
• Communicable disease investigation – gastro and food poisoning outbreaks,
•  Food allergen anaphylaxis notification and investigation of food purchased from food businesses,
•  Mosquito Management Program – monitoring and treatment,
•  Health promotions including food safety presentations, newsletters, community group information sessions,
• On-site wastewater management systems – sometimes referred to as 'septics',
•  Water quality in public swimming and spa pools, including Cryptosporidiosis outbreaks,
•  Tobacco Laws - education with retailers.

More information - watch these videos

• A Day in the Life of an EHO – Environmental Health Authority
• Is it food poisoning? – City of Greater Geelong
• Requirements for home kitchens to register a home food business - City of Greater Geelong