Resources

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides an overview of Australia's major arthropod pests of public health importance. It focusses on recommendations for first aid, personal protection measures and pest management.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) outlines key considerations for developing policies to improve environmental health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

This framework from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) supports the National Health Emergency Response (NatHealth) arrangements during environmental health issues, such as emerging environmental contaminants or environmental health emergencies.

This guide aims to help environmental health practitioners plan for and respond to disasters and emergencies.

This document provides updated PFAS health guidance in light of recently completed research into the human health effects of PFAS and exposure in Australia.

This fact sheet provides key information on PFAS.

This report, commissioned for the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth), identifies regulatory science workforce roles and responsibilities in Australia and outlines current and emerging workforce issues.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) outlines principles for undertaking a health impact assessment.

This document supports and should be used with the enHealth guidance – Risk communication principles. It helps people with environmental public health responsibility to identify the approach to risk communication for situations potentially impacting the community, especially where outrage may occur.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) assists environmental health practitioners and public health agencies to better understand and prepare for communicating environmental health risks to the general public.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provide risk assessors with data on human factors for exposure assessment components of environmental health risk assessments.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides a national approach to environmental health risk assessment.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) outlines how to minimise financial, health and reputation risks for local governments with environmental health responsibilities, and protect the interests of their communities and their organisation.

This general guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) aims to assist environmental public health practitioners to facilitate community and stakeholder understanding about risks to human health from environmental hazards.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides advice to state and territory health departments about reducing exposure to lead and other metals from plumbing products.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides nationally consistent approaches to health protection measures when smoke impacts from landscape fires last for a prolonged period (more than 2 to 3 days).

In response to the 2019–20 bushfire, this guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provided a summary of the known health effects of bushfire smoke exposure.

This collection contains publications from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth).

This document provides guidance to public agencies for health advice during fluctuations in air pollution from fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and for forecast 24-hour PM2.5 concentrations.

This document sets out the plan of action to achieve the priorities in the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) Strategic Plan (2024–27).

This document contains the terms of reference for the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth).

This document sets out the strategic priorities of the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) for 2024 to 2027.

This collection contains the terms of reference, strategic plan and work plan for the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth).

The health-based guidance values are expressed as a tolerable daily intake (TDI) and can be used for assessing potential exposure to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) through food, drinking water and recreational water during site investigations.

This report looks at the ability of non-animal testing methods to determine the safety of cosmetics and other industrial chemicals. It considers available and emerging Australian and international scientific evidence.