Infection & Disease Control
Council's Health Protection Unit helps protect the community from infection and disease.
The prevention measures offered by Council include:
Immunisation programs
Colac Otway Shire Council has vaccination programs to prevent or reduce the effects of vaccine preventable diseases.
Council offers:
See Council's full immunisation page here.
Personal care, body art and beauty businesses - registrations
Certain types of business offering personal care, body art and beauty services must be registered with Council.
Council's Environmental Health Officers regularly inspect a range of registered businesses such as tattooists, body piercing establishments, hairdressers, beauty salons and personal care businesses to ensure safe, correct hygiene practices are carried out by the operators.
These registrations and Council's relevant compliance functions are required by the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic) and the Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019 (Vic).
The Victorian Department of Health has more information on its website for businesses that must be registered.
Contact Council's Business Support Service if you're looking to open, change or relocate a business so we can help guide you to get the registrations you need.
Swimming pools and spas - inspections
Swimming pools and spas are visited by Council's Health Protection Officers to ensure that the operators are disinfecting their recreational water to prevent infectious disease outbreaks.