This Week at theEHP: No 91 |

Welcome to This Week at theEHP, a summary of the recent articles to appear on theEHP.com.

This week at theEHP we report on the effects of a volatile rental market and prosecutions.

[relatedPosts title=”Related Posts”]

The CIEH and the University of Greenwich have published a professional guidance document ‘Effective Strategies and Interventions: environmental health and the private housing sector’. Complied by Dr Jill Stewart, Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, this professional guidance document presents a number of research papers that showcase examples of innovative environmental health practices. Read more and download a copy here.

Book Deals on Amazon

View all Environmental Health Books here. If you think a book should be added to the store, please let us know.

Advertise Your Jobs on theEHP

Post your jobs on theEHP and fill your vacancies. All jobs posted will appear on theEHP.com. Advertising rates are and full details are available here.

If you would like to submit an article or Podcast to theEHP, Contact Us for details.

Looking forward to seeing you at theEHP.

Environmental Protection

Environmental Protection: Oxford man prosecuted for fly-tipping sheep heads
An Oxford man has been ordered to pay nearly £1,500 by Oxford Magistrates Court after illegally fly-tipping black bags containing sheep heads amongst food waste in a Wootton lay by.

Food Safety

Food Safety: Po Sing owner fined for poor food hygiene standards
A food business operator has been fined £4,000 for failing to keep his premises clean and maintained in good repair and condition.

Food Safety: Fine for Gwynedd restaurant
The owner of a Harlech restaurant has been fined £3,500 by magistrates for various food hygiene offences.

Food Safety: Coventry chippy gets the chop
A Coventry chip shop has been prosecuted for breaching a list of food hygiene standards, including allowing a blade used in a chipper into a portion of chips.

Food Safety: Arun DC business operator prosecuted for food safety offences
Mohammed Abdul Noor, who operates Ibrahim’s Tasty Bites, 59 Hawthorn Road, Bognor Regis, pleaded guilty to five offences and was fined £2610.78 including costs at Chichester Magistrates Court on Monday 22 April 2013.

Food Safety: Food safety breaches at North Somerset kebab shop
The owner of a kebab shop trading as Best Kebab & Pizza in Richmond Street, Weston-super-Mare has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £2,015 following food safety breaches.

Health & Safety

Housing

Housing: Shelter – Volatile rental market is damaging childhoods
A new report from Shelter claims to have uncovered the damaging impact of a childhood spent in England’s volatile private rental market.

Housing: Private housing sector efffective strategies & interventions published
The CIEH and the University of Greenwich have published a professional guidance document that draws together a range of methods and good practice in adding to the environmental health and housing evidence base.

Housing: Barnet landlord fined for not improving empty property
A landlord in Barnet has been ordered to pay over £24,000 by the courts, after he failed to make the necessary improvements to his empty property.

Housing: Wrexham landlords prosecuted after failure to obtain HMO licence
Wrexham Council has taken action against two landlords for failing to obtain a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licence.

Housing: Mr Money fined for leaving tenants exposed to housing hazards
A landlord who failed to bring two privately rented Hull flats in line with safety standards has been prosecuted and fined £2,000 plus costs for three offences under section 30(1) of the Housing Act 2004.

Public Health

Public Health: First prosecutions against shisha bars Leeds
Two café owners are the first in the city to be prosecuted for flouting the well-established smoking ban by allowing shisha to be smoked.

Public Health: Hendon shisha bar manager fined for allowing smoking in cellar
The manager of a Hendon shisha bar has been convicted of an offence under smoke-free legislation.

Public Health: Two fined for smoking in work vehicles
Following a recent crackdown, two people were prosecuted for smoking in their work vehicles. Abdul Shakoor of Crawley Road and Keith Fairlie of Napier Road were found guilty at Luton Magistrates Court on April 22. As neither attended the hearing, the case was heard in their absence.

theEHP Store

Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches

Get Clients Now! has helped thousands of independent professionals dramatically increase their client base. With this uniquely practical guide, it’s easy to replace scattershot marketing and networking efforts with proven and targeted tactics. Using a simple cookbook model, the book helps readers identify the ingredients missing from their current marketing activities, select the right strategies and tools from a menu of options, and create a completely customized action plan.

A structured 28-day program then outlines exactly what they need to do to put it into action. Now fully updated, the third edition combines tried-and-true marketing practices with new ideas for reaching clients.

Readers will learn:

How to choose the best marketing tactics for their situation and personality
Hands-on approaches for replacing unproductive cold-calling with the power of relationship marketing
Online networking and prospecting, social media, and internet marketing strategies that really work
Advice on integrating online and offline tactics
Tips for dealing with fear, resistance, and procrastination
And more Complete with worksheets, exercises and all-new examples.

Get Clients Now! remains the definitive guide on winning new business.

Buy it on Amazon – Available from £8.44

Amazon Deals