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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND MANAGEMENT

The Department is headed by a Director and has Four Divisions with its functions to include:

Health and Safety Division

  • Noise Pollution Control
  • Morgue Operational Services
  • Educational Awareness & Consultancy
  • Skid Gas Plant Machinist
  • Advocacy on Environmental Compliance & Sustainability
  • Disinfection & Disinfestations of Government Buildings/Parastatals
  • Coordinate Environmental Health & Safety activities/programmes in workplaces
Surveillance, Enforcement and Services
  • Management & Coordination of Environmental Marshals
  • Effluent Discharge & Treatment
  • Inspection & Investigation
  • Housing Standard/Quality, Inspection and Control
  • Surveillance on Diseases/outbreak Notification
  • Management of illegal use of road setbacks and other Government Prohibited Areas
  • Prevention and Control of Nuisances in the Environment.
Sanitation and Hygiene Division
  • Public & Mobile Toilet Management
  • Cleaning Services
  • Maintenance of Urban Sanitation
  • Public Pest & Vector Control Management
  • Sewage Disposal & System Management
  • Coordinating Sanitation and Hygiene of Regulated Premises, parks & Garden, recreational and Workplaces.
  • Coordinating Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise
  • Sanitation Services supervision in synergy with Local Government WES department on Abattoir, Schools and Markets.
  • Environmental Development & Monitoring within regulated premises
  • Maintenance of Sanitation at Camps, settlements,
  • Industrial Hygiene and Sanitation Services (EHIA)
Management Division
  • Commemoration of days (NESD, WPD, WTD, WEHD)
  • Routine reports, dissemination and feedback activities
  • Coordinate Environmental Health Management Information System
  • Training of Environmental Health Practitioners and Personnel
  • Coordinating Intervention Programmes on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
  • Liaising with Federal Ministry of Environment on Environmental Health Approach/Desk Officer
  • Special and Emergency Management/Assignments

Mr. Onaeko O. O.

Director Environmental Health and Management