Environmental Health
Environmental health is a key component of public health with environmental health officers who utilise regulatory and non-regulatory interventions to protect individuals and the community from potential harm or illness caused by exposures to hazards, diseases and harmful practices. Environmental health has responsibilities in food safety and standards, medicines, poisons and pest management, tobacco control, water quality, mosquito borne diseases, environmental hazards, communicable disease prevention and control and emergency management. The hyperlinks below provide environmental health information and resources for both consumers and business.
| Food safety - Consumers | Businesses | Educational Campaign General information on food safety issues, information on the legislative requirements for food businesses and access to informative food safety resources. |
Pest management Information to assist pest management technicians, businesses and individuals on how to comply with the laws in Queensland. |
| Medicines and poisons Guidelines and regulations pertinent to the manufacture, use and sale of medicines and poisons. |
Water Information on drinking and recreational water quality, water fluoridation, water contaminates and health risks. |
| Illicit drug labs Advice on how to clean up former illicit drug laboratories. |
Asbestos General information about asbestos for home renovators, workplaces, businesses and general public. |
| Dengue and mosquito borne diseases Find out about mosquito borne diseases in Queensland. |
Body art and personal appearance services Links to legislation, guidelines, factsheets and alerts about infection control for body art and personal appearance services. |
| Disaster management Looking after your health during a bushfire, heat event, storm, cyclone or flood. |
Poisons How to prevent poisoning in the home and a link to the Poisons Information Centre. |
| Tobacco Information for business and the public on the tobacco laws. |
Last updated: 26 October 2017
