Public Health Act 2011

Safe Drinking Water Act 2011

Environmental Health Indicators Discussion Paper (pdf, 511kb)

The State of Public and Environmental Health Report for South Australia

SA Health Public Health Directorate
Strategic Plan 2007-2009

Drought Package fact sheets ~ CLICK

Bore water safety and testing, rainwater quality, blue-green algae, alternative water supplies, water restrictions and health, greywater diversion systems, recycled water, salinity etc.

Legionella Regulations and Guidelines 2008

Public Health fact sheets ~ CLICK

Legionnaires' disease, clean-up after storms, scabies, bed bugs, bird mites, ticks, rats, household mould, second hand goods (for consumers and retailers), rainwater tanks, swimming pools, spa pools, environmental contaminants, wastewater etc.

Water Quality

• Environment Protection Agency (EPA) information and media release about Contamination found in Edwardstown-South Plympton bore water:

  • Fact sheet on chlorinated solvents in groundwater - new

  • Guide to bore water testing

  • Guide to using bore water safely

• Water quality factsheets

• Fluoridation facts

• Acid Sulphate Soils and Dust Fact Sheet (pdf, 59kb)

• Rainwater tanks, maintenance and water care

• Guidance on the use of rainwater tanks

• Health implications of increased salinity of drinking-water

• Australian Drinking Water Guidelines

• Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Managing Health and Environmental Risks - Phase 1

Port Pirie Lead Project

• Technical Paper 2011/3:analysis of blood lead levels for first 9 months of 2011

• Technical Paper 2011/2: analysis of blood lead levels for the first half of 2011 (30 June 2011)

• Technical Paper 2011/1 - analysis of blood lead levels for 2011 (1 January 2011 - 31 March 2011)

• Technical Paper 2010/4 - analysis of blood lead levels for 2010 (1 January 2010 - 31 December 2010)

• Lead and the garden – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 195kb)

• Babies, Caregivers and Lead – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 109kb)

• Pregnancy and Lead – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 117kb)

• Services we provide – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 176kb)

• Keeping lead levels low indoors – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 154kb)

• Renovating in Port Pirie – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 108kb)

• Contractors in Port Pirie – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 137kb)

• Information about lead – Environmental Health Centre Brochure (PDF 107kb)

• Pea-bee’s hand washing poster – Environmental Health Centre Poster (PDF 125kb)

• tenby10 Project - Reducing exposure to lead for the children of Port Pirie

• The Port Pirie Lead Implementation Program Future Focus and Directions 05-06

• Environmental Health Centre

• Pt Pirie Newsletter

• Lead dust reduction

• Blood lead level testing

Body decoration & grooming

• Cosmetics and your health

• Cosmetics: Tips

• Guideline on the Public Health Standards of Practice for Hairdressing

• Tattooing and body piercing

• Guidelines on the safe and hygienic practice of skin penetration

Environmental hazard management

• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) fact sheet

• Trenching or excavating near waterways?

• Bushfire Smoke and Your Health

• Heatwaves and your health

• Asbestos

• Trichloroethene in groundwater in Beverley and surrounding suburbs

• Benzene - Health effects

• Cryptosporidium Public Health Warning posters

• Lead and your health, exposure reduction advice

• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) fact sheet

• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) fact sheet

• Whyalla red dusts

• Environmental Health and Wellbeing Survey 2002 ~ Summary of Findings

• Land site contamination

• Sanitation

• Enjoy gardening without the risk of Legionella

• Petting Zoo Infection Control Guideline

• enHealth COUNCIL Environmental Health Monographs

   Public Health Bulletin

Quarterly bulletin incorporating the Communicable Disease Control Branch report.

Poisons information

• Restrictions on sale of Lye Water for food businesses (Sept 2010)
  – English
  – Traditional Chinese
  – Simplified Chinese
  – Vietnamese

• Lye Water information for the African Community (translations)

• Lye Water Fact sheet (2005)

• Poisoning in South Australia - 2002

• Poisoning in South Australia - 2001

Drugs & Poisons Licences

Tobacco Control in South Australia

Public health pests

• Mosquitoes - " Fight the Bite"

• SA Integrated Mosquito Management Strategy 2007

• SA Integrated Mosquito Management Resource Package 2006

• Bedbugs fact sheet

• Bird mites fact sheet

• Headlice

• Feral rodents fact sheet

• feral pigeons fact sheet

• Scabies

• Ticks fact sheet

• Public health pests

Wastewater management

• Wastewater management factsheets

• Recycled Water Application Guide (pdf, 889kb)

• Wastewater Management home (domestic & town wastewater systems, legislation in SA, overview)

• Wastewater News

• Public Consultation for Draft Regulations & Codes

• Standard Onsite Wastewater Systems (codes & standards, application forms, approval requirements, maintenance guides for septic tanks, aerobic treatment systems & sand filters)

• Greywater and other alternative onsite systems including other sullage systems, composting toilets, reedbed systems, nutrient removal systems & other alternative technologies (fact sheets, application forms, approval requirements)

• Reclaimed water reuse - treated effluent (application form, approval criteria, other government agency approvals)

• Product approval for wastewater systems (codes & standards, application form, approval requirements, guidelines)

• Approved wastewater products for marketing, sale & installation in SA (septic tanks, aerobic wastewater treatment plants, alternative treatment systems, blackwater or toilet systems including composting, chemical & hybrid, ancillary equipment, greywater systems)

• Wastewater collection & treatment systems for towns and other large developments (codes & standards, application forms, approval criteria, other government agency approvals)

• Wastewater Management Seminars

Public events

• Management of public health & safety at public events (DH) (pdf 851kb)

• Emergency Management Australia ~ Safe & Healthy Mass Gatherings Manual

Whyalla Health Impact Study

• Introduction

• Report

• Frequently Asked Questions

Public & Environmental Health Council

List of approved qualifications for the appointment of authorised officers under the Public & Environmental Health Act 1987

Environmental health publications

Human Remains

• Exhumations and Export Authorisations (pdf, 685kb)

Services outside council areas

• Regional Services

Swimming & recreational waters

• Public swimming pools & spa pools

• Private swimming pools & spa pools

• Recreation waters (beaches, rivers & lakes)

Environment Health Assessment Hotline ~ Ph (08) 8226-7107

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