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Environmental health publications

List of Publications on environmental health currently distributed by the Office of Health Protection of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

Environmental health links

(N.B. This list includes monographs produced by the National Environmental Health Forum, which enHealth has replaced.)

Hard copies of environmental health publications can be ordered from health@nationalmailing.com.au phone 02 6269 1000 or fax 02 6260 2770.

Publications number
Title
National Environmental Health Strategy
P3-2333 National Environmental Health Strategy 2007-2012
The National Environmental Health Strategy 2007 - 2012 (the Strategy) was approved by the Australian Health Protection Committee (AHPC) on the 11-12 October 2007. The Strategy provides direction for environmental health management across Australia and identifies the Australian environmental health sectors' role in developing and supporting infrastructure for health protection. Date Published: 2007 ISBN: 1-74186-349-X Author: enHealth Council
UB55016 National Environmental Health Strategy 1999
The Implementation Plan provides a framework for the diverse range of environmental health stakeholders to use in planning and managing environmental health and presents and outline of the enHealth Council work Date Published: 2000 ISBN: 0 642 44644 X Author: enHealth Council
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan 2000
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Final Review Report of the National Environmental Health Strategy
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Review of the National Environmental Health Strategy - Summary Report
Risk Assessment
ENV4 Health Impact Assessment Guidelines (2001)
ENV7 Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Guidelines for assessing human health risks from environmental hazards: June 2004
This document provides a national approach to environmental health risk assessment. The document presents a general environmental health risk assessment methodology applicable to the range of environmental health hazards
Date Published: June 2004
ISBN: 0 642 820910
Department of Health and Ageing and enHealth Council,
ENV8 Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Environmental Health Planning and Assessment
These Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Environmental Health Planning and Assessment describe the method of economic evaluation and its application to environmental health policy issues.
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: A Risk Assessment 2002 Published by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing (April 2003)
ENV6 Environmental Health Risk Perception in Australia - A Research Report to the enHealth Council (2002)
A Research Report to the enHealth Council This research report presents a wide-ranging and detailed analysis of the perceptions on health risks of a representative sample of the Australian population.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN: 0 642 44651 2
Author: Centre for Population Studies in Epidemiology, South Australian Department of Human Services
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Environmental Health Risk Perception in Australia (2000)
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Water Quality
ENV24

Guidance for the control of Legionella (1996)

ENV21 Guidance on water quality for heated spas (1996)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Guidelines for the Greywater Reuse in Western Australia (Draft)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Review of Health Issues Associated with Potable Reuse of Wastewater - Final Report
This Report was prepared by Gutteridge Haskins and Davey Pty Ltd (GHD) on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. The Study was required to identify and review health issues with a view to determining the feasibility of developing health-based guidelines for potable reuse of reclaimed wastewater.
Date Published: March 2001
ISBN: 0 642 50363X
Produced by Gutteridge Haskins & Davey for Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
ENV11 Guidance on the use of Rainwater Tanks (2004)
Date Published: June 2004
ISBN 0 642 82443 6
Department of Health and Ageing and enHealth Council
ENV13 Guidance on the use of Rainwater Tanks - Consumer Brochure
Air Quality
ENV17 Ozone (1997)
  Benzene (1997)
ENV25 Nitrogen Dioxide (1997)
ENV16 Sulphur dioxide (1999)
ENV1 Indoor Air Quality: A report on Health Impacts and Management Options
This report is an assessment of current knowledge of indoor air, specifically identifying and addressing health risks associated with poor indoor air quality, and links between health, pollutant exposures and sources of contaminants in the indoor environment.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN: 0 642 44667 9
Author: Queensland Department of Public Works, Built Environment Research Unit, Building Division
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Healthy Homes - A guide to indoor air quality in the home for buyers, builders and renovators
ENV14 Unflued Gas Heaters & Your Health Brochure
Top of pageGeneral
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy enHealth Council Position on Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) Treated Timber Products - July 2005
ENV33 Exposure Scenarios and Exposure Settings (2001)
Exposure Scenarios and Exposure Settings, 3rd edition, 2001 provides guidance as to how land use should be taken into account when undertaking exposure assessments for contaminated land.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN: 0 7308 5661 5
Author: enHealth Council and Queensland Department of Health
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Health-based Soil Investigation Levels (2001)
Health-based Soil Investigation Levels, 3rd edition, 2001 provides guidance on the health risk assessment of contaminated land
Date Published: 2001
ISBN: 0 7308 5674 7
Author: enHealth Council and Queensland Department of Health
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Composite sampling (1996)
ENV18 Aluminium, 1st edition (1998)
ENV22 Zinc (1997)
ENV19 Copper (1997)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Child activity patterns for environmental exposure assessment in the home (1999)
Top of pageEnvironmental Health Practitioners
ENV49 enHealth Environmental Health Officer Skills and Knowledge Matrix
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Thinking Sustainable Development - Acting for Health
ENV23 National standard for licensing pest management technicians (1999)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Accountability in Indigenous Environmental Health Services - Australia 2002
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Floods: An environmental health practitioner's emergency management guide (1999)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Responding to Environmental Health Incidents - Community Involvement Handbook (2006)
Top of pageNational Indigenous Environmental Health Conferences
ENV28 Indigenous Environmental Health No. 1 Cairns (1998)
ENV30 Indigenous Environmental Health Report of Second Workshop Broome (1999)
The second Indigenous Environmental Health publication brings together the issues identified by the conference and workshop participants and provides advice on progress and recommendations from the second workshop.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN: 0 642 44642 3
Author: enHealth Council
ENV3 Indigenous Environmental Health Report of Third National Conference Alice Springs (2000)
This publication has been produced by the enHealth Council and is the third in the series on Indigenous environmental health. The report aims to contribute to the debate around, and increase the understanding and awareness of, environmental health issues facing Indigenous communities focussing in particular on Environmental Health Workers.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN: 0 642 50331 1
Author: enHealth Council
ENV37 Indigenous Environmental Health Report of the Fourth National Conference Adelaide (2002)
ENV42 Indigenous Environmental Health (Report of the Fifth National Conference (2004)
This publication has been produced by the enHealth Council and is the fifth in the series on Indigenous environmental health. The report aims to contribute to the debate around, and increase the understanding and awareness of, environmental health issues facing Indigenous communities focussing in particular on Environmental Health Workers.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN: 0 642 82892 X
Author: enHealth Council
Indigenous Environmental Health (Report of the sixth National Conference (2007)
This publication has been produced by the Environmental Health Committee (enHealth) of the Australian Health Protection Committee and is the sixth in the series on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. The report aims to contribute to the debate around, and increase the understanding and awareness of, environmental health issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities focussing in particular on Indigenous Environmental Health Workers.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN: 1-74186-477-1
Author: Environmental Health Committee (enHealth) of the Australian Health Protection Committee
Top of pageEnvironmental health in your home and community
ENV12 Healthy Homes - A guide to indoor air quality in the home for buyers, builders and renovators
ENV14 The health effects of unflued gas heater use in Australia
ENV14 Unflued Gas Heaters & Your Health Brochure
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Paint film components (1998)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy The health effects of environmental noise - other than hearing loss (May 2004)
Date Published: May 2004
ISBN: 0 642 82304 9
Department of Health and Ageing and enHealth Council
ENV38 Management of asbestos in the non-occupational environment
Date Published: 2005
ISBN 0 642 82696 X
Department of Health and Ageing and enHealth Council
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Guidelines for the control of public health pests – Lice, fleas, scabies, bird mites, bedbugs and ticks (1999)
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy Pesticide use in schools and school grounds (1997)
UB55131 Healthy Communities Healthy Environments
Published: 2000
Author: Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care
Product Description: 600mm x 600mm Poster

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