REGULATORY
Somebody has to keep us safe from dodgy food, ensure that we don’t get constant gridlock in the cities, that not everybody has a loud party at 3am on the same Sunday morning, or that ships berth at wharves and not on reefs. Councils apply a vast number of rules and regulations that central government has decreed, and many arise from the expressed wishes of their community.
This category typically includes:
Resource Management Act
- Typical roles include resource consent officer, resource consent processing/monitoring officer, planner.
- Study typically includes Environment and Resource Management, Maori Resource Management, Social Sciences, Natural Resources, Regional and Resource Planning.
Building and Consents
- Typical roles include building inspector, building processing officer, building approvals officer
- Study typically includes Building Science, Building and Construction (including trades), Regional and Resource Planning.
Health and hygiene control
- Typical roles include environmental health officer, food safety officer, food poisoning Investigator.
- Study typically includes Environmental Health, Public Health Nursing, Health and Safety.
Licensing and permits
- Typical roles include environmental health officer.
- Study typically includes Environmental Health.
Traffic
- Typical roles include traffic analyst, traffic engineer, parking control officer.
- Study typically includes statistics, traffic or network engineering, customer relations.
Waterways and navigation
- Typical roles include harbour master.
- Study typically includes maritime tickets.
For a case study, see Ouch!