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Environmental Health Bulletin Archives
- July 2008
(pdf) 602Kb - includes articles on Smoke from wood fired home heaters, Climate Change and Human Health, Legionella in car washes, Legionnaire’s outbreak at a carwash in Victoria, Spray on Tanning Booths, Unflued Gas Heaters, Putting Tobacco Products Out of Sight in Retail Outlets, Conferences and Training and Management of private recycled water schemes.
- April 2008
(pdf) 976Kb - includes articles on Assuring Drinking Water Quality, NSW Legionella Sampling Program, Building Liveable Communities, Recycled Water Guidelines and Risk Assessment Process Workshops, World Youth Day July 08, and Protecting Kids from Exposure to Tobacco
- January 2008
(pdf) 1,143Kb - Local Government Legionella Management Plans; Community Sharps Award Winner; NSW Health Community Sharps Management Grants Program; Recycled Water Guidelines; Upcoming Water For Life Events for 2008; Greywater Reuse Guidelines; Smoke-free Outdoor Areas: Smoke-free Playgrounds and Sporting Fields; Amendments to Public Health Act 1991; Dermaroller- Skin Penetration; Public Health School 25 & 26 February 2008- Sydney Olympic Park; NSW Health Public Health Emergency Management Courses 2008.
- October 2007
(pdf) 1,144Kb - Summer's Coming - Be Prepared; Clean Pools for Healthy Swimming; Mozzies suck so cover up; Swimming pool tutorials for local government and pool operators; Recreational Waters: an overview of infectious diseases in recreational waters; Report from the 6th National Indigenous Environmental Health Conference; Skin penetration clarification - airbrush tattooing; Local Government Legionella Management Plans; International Environmental Health Conference - Brisbane, May 2008; Smoke-Free Outdoor Areas: A Resource Kit for Local Government; NSW Councils Smoke-free Areas Chart; Smoke-free Outdoor Areas: Frequently Asked Questions.
- July 2007
(pdf) 919Kb - Storms and flooding in the Hunter area; Flood and storm emergency information and fact sheets; Farewell Kelly Main; NAIDOC Week: Mr Germ handwashing activity; Rainwater tanks; Australian guidelines for water recycling; Recycled water guidelines one day seminar; Recycled water cross connection causes outbreak in Victoria; Australian Institute of Environmental Health Journal wants your articles.
- April 2007
(pdf) 873Kb - 6th National Indigenous Environmental Health Conference; Commercial Private Water Supplies; Protecting Our Places - Aboriginal Environmental Grants Program; Clean Pools for Healthy Swimming; National Short Courses in Environmental Health; Tobacco Control Update; New Certificates of Accreditation for domestic wastewater treatment systems.
- January 2007
(pdf) 887Kb - Greywater Management Training Course; Foodborne illness: Salmonella linked to Rockmelons; Mosquito workshop report; Local Barmah Forest visus study; Living with Mosquitoes; Mosquito Facts; Conference - Environmental Health in the Hunter New England 2007; Development Applications & Local Environment Plans; Courses: Emergency Management & Children’s Environmental Health; NATA accredited laboratories; New Guidelines for the investigation of foodborne diseases for EHOs; Program Evaluation; New Publications.
- October 2006
(pdf) 665Kb - Mosquito Monitoring Training Course; Legislation Update; HNEPH Geographical Area Support; North Lake Macquarie Lead Update; Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network; Local Authority Public Health Emergency Management; Re-use of Swimming Pool Backwash Water; Role of Local Government in Public Health; Skin Penetration Seminars; Importance of Needle and Syringe Programs.
- July 2006
(pdf) 558Kb - Information from the NSW Health Water Workshop and other water issues; HNE Population Health Environmental Health Program for 2006-7; Development of NSW Health Environmental Health Guiding Principles; Report on the Tamworth Country Music Festival; Guidelines for burials on private land.
- April 2006
(pdf) 404Kb - Includes stories about an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease; investigating cases of psittacosis; and Indigenous environmental health.
- February 2006
(pdf) 649Kb - Introducing Environmental Health Officers, Pandemic Flu and Local Government, Legionella Case study.