Health and infection protection

• 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

• Hygiene monitoring

  • Hygiene monitoring

  1. Clinical center
  2. Public facilities, such as kindergartens, children's homes, homes for the elderly and nursing homes, asylum shelters
  3. 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

• 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

• 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

• Tasks according to the Radiation Protection Ordinance

  • Monitoring of solariums
  • Surveillance of trades using devices with non-ionizing radiation in human application

• 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.

  • Information on the Law for Protection against Measles and Strengthening Vaccination Prevention
  • General decree of the city of Wolfsburg

• Contact

  City of Wolfsburg
  Health Division
  Health and infection protection
  Dr. Regine Gattwinkel
  Rosenweg 1a
  38446 Wolfsburg

  Telephone: 05361 28-2020
  E-mail: infektionsschutz@stadt.wolfsburg.de