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Environmental Health Practitioner Manual: A resource manual for Environmental Health Practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

Chapter 4 Rubbish storage, collection and disposal and environmental management

Page last updated: November 2010

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  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Germ theory and parasites
    • 1 The environment
    • 2 Disease and the environment
    • 3 Environmental health
    • 4 Germs and disease
    • 5 Parasites
    • 6 Stopping the spread of germs and parasites
  • Chapter 2 Sewage system management
    • 1 Sewage
    • 2 Sewage disposal
    • 3 Disease from sewage
    • 4 Pit, bucket and chemical toilets
    • 5 Flushing toilets
    • 6 Plumbing
    • 7 Unblocking pipes and fixtures
    • 8 Methods of sewage treatment
    • 9 The septic tank
    • 10 Effluent disposal drains (leach and French drains)
    • 11 Sewage lagoons
    • 12 Communities without a sewage disposal system
  • Chapter 3 Healthy people, homes and dogs
    • 1 Domestic and personal hygiene
    • 2 Poor hygiene and disease
    • 3 House design and health
    • 4 House hygiene—cleaning
    • 5 House cleaning—tidying and maintaining the yard
    • 6 Communal facilities
    • 7 Personal hygiene
    • 8 Food poisoning and contamination
    • 9 Protecting food from contamination
    • 10 Dog health
    • 11 Caring for dogs
  • Chapter 4 Rubbish storage, collection and disposal and environmental management
    • 1 Rubbish
    • 2 Rubbish and disease
    • 3 Domestic rubbish
    • 4 Disposal of rubbish
    • 5 Rubbish bins
    • 6 Household incinerators
    • 7 Rubbish collection
    • 8 Setting up a community rubbish collection system
    • 9 Community and yard clean-ups
    • 10 Rubbish tips
    • 11 Litter
    • 12 Environmental management—area beautification
  • Chapter 5 Pest control
    • 1 What is a pest?
    • 2 Pest control
    • 3 Common pests
    • 4 Environmental conditions which encourage pests
    • 5 Pesticides
    • 6 Other methods of pest control
    • 7 Types of pesticides and how they enter animals and plants
    • 8 Pesticide treatment program
    • 9 Protective clothing and equipment (personal protective equipment)
    • 10 Calculating and mixing the correct amount of chemical
    • 11 Disposal of unused pesticide and empty pesticide containers
    • 12 Decontamination and maintenance of pesticide application equipment
    • 13 Safe storage of pesticides and spray equipment
    • 14 Cleaning up a pesticide spill
    • 15 Pesticides and fire
    • 16 First aid procedures for pesticide poisoning
  • Chapter 6 Water supply
    • 1 Water - its importance and source
    • 2 W ater contamination and disease
    • 3 Community water supplies
    • 4 W ater supply contaminants and disinfection
    • 5 Contaminated water supplies
    • 6 Treating contaminated water
    • 7 Water supply plumbing
  • Chapter 7 Environmental health program management and community education
    • 1 Environmental health work
    • 2 Starting and managing environmental health work
    • 3 Planning the environmental health program
    • 4 Checklisting
    • 5 Getting the job done
    • 6 Reporting
    • 7 Office work
    • 8 Maintenance and storage of equipment and tools
    • 9 Community environmental health education
    • 10 Community development

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