COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT

The commercial environment team is made up of four main fundamentals: health & safety, food, entertainment premises, and the consultation team. They make sure that commercial location in Westminster are well run:

Food

• Promote and regulate food security in food premises inside the City

• To investigate and control outbreaks of food poisoning.
• To give advice the general public, new and presented business on good practice in relation to food safety.

Health & Safety

• make sure commercial premises give safe working conditions

• carry out risk assessments to recognize all potential risks to health

• make available educational activities to highlight Health & Safety issues

Consultation Team

The Consultation team offer the Environmental Health input into the preparation and licensing application process. This absorb liaising with applicants over the feature of applications, presenting proof to licensing committees and acting as specialist witnesses at court. The team also guide on the completion of the Council's contaminated land strategy.

Environmental Sciences

• Monitor air and water quality and contaminated land
• offer expert acoustic opinion to the Planning and Licensing services
• expand noise mapping to show noise hotspots across Westminster.