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Your Environment

We protect your health, whether it's in your environment or care facility

Health protection is responsible for regulating and monitoring many public facilities and those aspects of the environment that have a direct impact on public health.

Services under the health protection generally fall into two areas:

Environmental health

Protecting human health by managing potential health risks to the population through:

Major event planning
Air quality
Communicable disease control
Drinking water safety
Food safety
Harm reduction
Industrial Camps
Recreational water safety
Tattooing, piercing, tanning & hair services
Tobacco, vapour & cannabis control

Community care facilities licensing

Promoting and protecting the health and safety of children and adults in community care facilities such as:

COVID-19 Resources for Businesses

For the most current information on COVID-19, please visit the BCCDC COVID-19 website. Resources and guidance are available in the Community Settings and Employers & Businesses sections.

We recognize and acknowledge that we are collectively gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the seven Interior Region First Nations, where we live, learn, collaborate and work together. This region is also home to 15 Chartered Métis Communities. It is with humility that we continue to strengthen our relationships with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit peoples across the Interior.

Interior Health is committed to the elimination of racism and to Cultural Safety and Humility in our facilities and the communities we serve. Read the Statement on Racism, from the Interior Health Board of Directors.