Health Protection Principles

Planning and preparedness

Prevention and early detection

Investigation and control

communicable

preparedness, resilience and response

environmental

partnership working

strategy development

risk register maintenance

prevent health risks

mitigate health risks

develop local plans in context of national

partnership working

local and national risk register management

development of incident plans

testing of incident plans

Pathway

Receptor

Source

eg people

eg skin contact, airborne agent

chemical spill, flood, infectious person or animal

requires all three stages for there to be a risk

communicable

preparedness, resilience and response

environmental

prevention = statutory risk assessments, eg for asbestos

early detection = radon surveys or air quality monitoring

health and safety, eg fire alarm monitoring

early detection

preventative infection control

vaccination and immunisation

clean water

safe waste disposal, include household waste

healthcare practices

screening, eg antennal or HOV and HepB programmes

communicable

environmental

preparedness, resilience and response

this was all thought to be well prepared in the UK pre-COVID!!!

investigation = including sampling; complex and drawn out

control = PH communication

investigation = location, nature of incident, hazard, risk, accessibility and response (or potential of all of these)

control = timely PH advice

could be non-health

infectious disease notification