Health and infection protection
The division is a department of the Health division.
Health and Infection Protection has the following areas of responsibility:
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Prevention and control of communicable diseases in humans
- Determination about type, cause, source of infection, extent of infectious disease.
- Permission for activities with pathogens
- Health reporting
- Control of the group of persons who have to have health and employer's instructions
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Hygiene monitoring
- Hygiene monitoring
- Clinical center
- Public facilities, such as kindergartens, children's homes, homes for the elderly and nursing homes, asylum shelters
- Facilities and trades where blood-borne pathogens can be transmitted through activities on humans, e.g. piercers and tattoo artists, chiropodists, blood donor services, emergency medical services.
- Preparation of statements for construction projects according to infection hygiene aspects
- Monitoring of the trade in over-the-counter medicines
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Environmental health - "Water" sector
- Drinking water plants
- Survey and assessment
- Determination of sampling points and scope of investigation
- EU bathing water "Allersee
- Site visit
- On-site measurements, sightings and assessments
- Pollution assessment with risk analysis
- Preparation of bathing water profiles and bathing water information sheets
- Bathing facilities
- inspection, also of the treatment plants
- on-site measurements and assessments
- Assessment of laboratory analysis results
- Drinking water plants
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Environmental health "Miscellaneous
- Participation in various planning procedures
- Approvals according to the Lower Saxony Burial Act of:
1. reburials
2. coffinless burials
3. change of the time of burial
4. exceptions to the storage of corpses
5. change of the minimum resting times
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Tasks according to the Radiation Protection Ordinance
- Monitoring of solariums
- Surveillance of trades using devices with non-ionizing radiation in human application
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Measles protection
Measles Protection Act in accordance with Section 20 Infection Protection Act -IfSG- (reporting forms).
Facilities/companies must report persons with missing proof of immunity to the Health Division via the Lower Saxony portal on a mandatory basis by means of the general decree.
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Contact
City of Wolfsburg
Health Division
Health and infection protection
Dr. Regine Gattwinkel
Rosenweg 1a
38446 WolfsburgTelephone: 05361 28-2020
E-mail: infektionsschutz@stadt.wolfsburg.de