This week has been proclaimed Environmental Public Health Week, and 2013 is also the 100th anniversary for the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.
The Cypress Health Region marked the occasion with a display and public event at the EI Wood Building Thursday. Public Health Inspector Jacqueline Treen made a presentation at the event, saying her profession offers a wide variety of services to public healthcare.
"Of course, we're most associated with restaurant inspections, but only a small percentage of the things that we do here in the region," she said. "We mandate everything under the Public Health Act and the Tobacco Control Act, and we're also the plumbing inspectors here in Saskatchewan. Anywhere the public goes, we go."
Interview with Jacqueline Treen
Treen adds public health inspection services have a strong history in the southwest, and one of the inspectors in the southwest helped start something that is a standard for health inspection today.
"We had one of the six inspectors in the province, Francis Peters, who played an integral part of public health, and made many milestones for what we do today," she said. "Under his management, we in Shaunavon taught the very first safe food handling course in 1971. That later pushed the province to put in regulation that at least one person per shift had to have food handler training in order to work in a restaurant."
Treen adds there are 72 Public Health Inspectors in Saskatchewan with six in the Cypress Health Region, and five schools in Canada provide training.
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