Course Objectives

After completing the course, the students will have acquired the basis for working independently with administrative procedures and inspection within the field of public management in general, and within the field of environmental health, and food safety authority in particular. Students will acquire knowledge and practice in relating to important laws and regulations in these fields. They will also gain basic knowledge of accounting methods and risk and vulnerability evaluations, and will be able to carry out inspections based on system accounting and verifications in various operations concerned with environmental health.

Course Description

Important themes:
 Environmental health protection and environmental hygienic case procedures
 Inspection work in the form of system accounting and verifications
 Relevant legislation such as the Municipal Health Services Act and Communicable Diseases Control Act with regulations, as well as adjacent laws and regulations, such as, the Pollution Control Act, the Planning and Building Act, and the Working Environment Act
 Execution of public authority especially within the field of environmental health protection and cases concerning pollution
 Specific administrative case procedures including practical exercises and the solution of ‘case exercises’
 Field trips to various ‘inspection objects’ such as waterworks, swimming halls, schools, kindergartens, sewage works and waste disposal installations etc.
 Risk and vulnerability analyses

Learning Methods

40 hours of lectures
Obligatory: 20 hours of group work, role-play etc., in connection with system accounting course and 30 hours project work in groups. Company visit.
The teaching is practically oriented and includes amongst others things visits to companies, waterworks, waste plants and solariums etc., where students may acquire materials for case studies in which students will have the opportunity to practice exercises that focus on the various regulations in relation to environmental problems.

Assessment Methods

Grades will be given for 2 part-exams: a written mid-term examination (3 hours) counts for 50% and an oral final examination counts for 50%. Both part-exams must receive passing marks.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean