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--- The provision of advice and assistance to local authorities, Government departments, public hospitals, and private hospitals, with respect to public health matters and health protection matters, as may be required:

--- The provision of advice and assistance to local authorities, regional councils, and united councils, with respect to public health aspects of civil defence:

--- The investigation of applications for the establishment of offensive trades; the investigation of any proposal for the erection or extension of any premises for the purposes of or in connection with any offensive trade; granting or refusing consent to applications for the establishment or extension of any offensive trade:

--- The provision of health inspection services to local authorities:

--- The surveillance and evaluation of crematoria; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities concerning crematoria; the investigation of complaints concerning crematoria; ensuring compliance with the Cremation Regulations 1973:

--- Ensuring compliance with Part IV of the Health Act 1956, and the Health (Quarantine) Regulations 1983:

--- Having regular sanitation inspections made of coastal shipping vessels:

--- The inspection and evaluation of port sanitation, including passenger terminal facilities, cargo workers' canteens, and all wharves and related buildings, having samples taken of the water supply at ports to enable assessments of bacteriological and chemical content of the water; and making recommendations with respect to port sanitation and water quality to relevant authorities:

--- The inspection of the following classes of premises for the purpose of the evaluation of and, where appropriate, the reporting on public health standards at the premises, and for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Health Act 1956, and any regulations made thereunder, relevant to the said premises:

--- Schools
--- Old People's Homes
--- Swimming pools
--- Hairdressers' premises

--- The inspection of, and reporting on, child care centres and residential homes for the purpose of the evaluation of the physical environmental standards, sanitary condition, and any adverse conditions:

--- The inspection of chartered clubs and other licensed premises for the purpose of the evaluation of health standards maintained at such clubs or premises, and reporting thereon:

--- Providing information as requested for the purpose of FAO and World Health Organisation food contamination monitoring programmes.

Occupational Health

--- Providing medical, nursing, and scientific advice about occupational health hazards and diseases to Government departments, employer organisations, employee organisations, Accident Compensation Corporation, voluntary organisations, and other relevant organisations:

--- Providing assistance in establishing occupational health services to relevant organisations, industry, Government departments:

--- Providing services for the investigation of, the reporting on, and, where possible, the improvement of environmental working conditions and the health of workers:

--- Providing occupational health services in priority areas, through occupational health centres, or in accordance with Government policy:

--- Ensuring, and promoting, the control of hazards at work:

--- Ensuring and promoting the safe use of chemicals in agriculture and industry:

--- Investigating occupational diseases:

--- The undertaking and assessment of noise surveys in workplaces:

--- Carrying out assessments and measurements on behalf of the National Radiation Laboratory pursuant to the Radiation Protection Act 1965 and the Radiation Protection Regulations 1982:

--- Investigation, evaluation, and reporting on occupational deafness, and promoting its prevention:

--- Giving appropriate advice and technical assistance on health issues in industrial disputes:

--- Investigation of problems and complaints relating to occupational health:

--- Undertaking special surveys of investigations on a regional basis or as part of a national programme.

--- Providing appropriate training of occupational health staff:

--- Promoting awareness of occupational health hazards by appropriate education programmes for schools, tertiary institutions, industry, Government departments:

--- Ensuring that all persons on whom obligations are imposed by the following regulations meet those obligations, and otherwise comply with those regulations:

--- Asbestos Regulations 1983
--- Electricity Regulations 1950
--- Fumigation Regulations 1967
--- Lead Process Regulations 1950
--- Spray Coating Regulations 1962.

Health Promotion

--- Arranging for medical and developmental examinations of children from specified groups:

--- Arranging for medical examination and assessment of school children referred by parents, teachers, psychologists, general practitioners, nurses, and others:

--- Arranging for immunisations, including BCG vaccination and Rubella immunisation for selected groups:

--- Health surveillance and advice and support for selected age groups:

--- The provision of support for Plunket nurses, and for staff of the area health board:

--- The provision of advice on, and participation in, health promotion and health education programmes:

--- The provision of support and advisory services for community health development:

--- Arranging for hearing and vision tests on children, including follow-up tests; referral of children with suspected defects; consulting with parents, and schools with respect to children with suspected defects:

--- Implementation of health education programmes within the area health district, whether of a regional or national nature:

--- The planning, co-ordination, and evaluation of health promotion and health education programmes:

--- The provision of inservice training for area health board staff in health promotion and health education:

--- Preparation and provision of statistics on:

--- Infectious and notifiable diseases notifications
--- Clinical attendances for venereal diseases
--- Immunisations
--- X-ray surveillance of immigrants
--- Medical requirements of South Pacific immigrants
--- Child health:

--- Arranging for measures to control and prevent the incidence of non-communicable diseases:

--- Promotion of health through good nutrition.

--- Undertaking measures to investigate, and control or prevent, the spread of infectious diseases; ensuring the isolation of persons likely to spread any infectious disease:

--- Ensuring compliance with the Venereal Diseases Regulations 1982.

Public Health Nursing

Functions—The organisation and control of nursing services so far as such service are paid for out of public money, in the following respects:

--- The promotion of primary health care by developing community profiles in consultation with the local community for the purpose of identifying health needs:

--- The provision of a family-centred nursing service that identifies family health needs and meets those needs by providing appropriate health surveillance, advice, and support for “at risk” groups:

--- The supervision of infants and children in conjunction with the Plunket Society, and in accord with Government policy:

--- The provision of health surveillance of children in primary, intermediate, and secondary schools, including correspondence schools:

--- The provision of health promotion services to post-school adolescents:

--- Carrying out immunisation programmes, and undertaking measures to assist in disease prevention and control:

--- The provision of a health surveillance support service for the well-elderly in the community, including visits to the elderly, and consultation with other agencies in the planning and provision of services for the well-elderly:

--- Assessment of standards of care for the elderly in licensed old peoples' homes, together with advice to managers of old peoples' homes on health aspects of the standards of care, and making reports on the standards of care: