Skip to content

Contact us
Emergency information

Print Page
Increase Font Size
Decrease Font Size

NSW Health

Search Keywords Search

COVID-19
COVID-19 in NSW
COVID-19 vaccination in NSW
Public
Helpful information
Children and families
Healthy living
Awareness and prevention
Improving your health
Professionals
For general practitioners
For health professionals
Research
Open data
- Search open data site
- Search via topics
Medical research
Population health
Careers
For jobseekers
For students
Workforce and employment
Publications
Publications and resources
Policies and procedures
- Policy and procedure manuals
- Policy directives, guidelines and information bulletins
Media
Media releases
Social media
About
NSW Health
Ministry of Health
Ministers
The Hon. Ryan Park, MP
- Profile
- Media releases
The Hon. Rose Jackson, MLC
- Profile
- Media releases
The Hon. David Harris, MP
- Profile
- Media releases

Home
Environmental health
Fact sheets

Environmental health
Fact sheets Currently selected
Contacts

Environmental health fact sheets

Advice on mosquito control during floods and public events
Approval to keep the body of a deceased person for longer than permitted
Asbestos and health risks
Beach and water safety
Beat the heat - Heat and health
Beat the heat - Heat and health: Babies and young children
Beauty treatment businesses
Beauty, body art and skin penetration industries
Biosolids
Body art and tattooing businesses
Body piercing businesses
Burial of a deceased person in a grave without a coffin
Burials on private land
Bushfires and on-site wastewater systems
Carbon monoxide poisoning fact sheet
Chống nóng
Chống Nóng
Cleaning and disinfection of foot spas
Cleaning and sterilising reusable equipment and instruments
Colonic lavage businesses
Combata el calor
Combata el calor
Continual breakpoint chlorination
Controlling chloramines in indoor swimming pools
Cremation ashes
Cremation of more than one body at a time
Dioxins in Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River – Health advice for recreational fishers
Dust storms
Exhumation of human remains
Eyeball tattooing
Fees and penalties - Public Health Act 2010 and Public Health Regulation 2022
Fight the bite - mosquito borne infections
Fire retardants and private water sources
Frostbite
Groundwater contamination by EDC at Botany
Hairdressers and barbers
Handling of bodies by funeral directors during an influenza pandemic
Health and water during drought
Healthy swimming pools
How to clean and sterilise reusable skin penetration equipment and instruments
Hypothermia
Incorporating health-based targets into drinking water management systems and Section 60 approvals
Information to councils on mosquito control during public events
Labanan ang init
Lead exposure in children
Legionella control in cooling water systems - Authorised officer
Legionella control in cooling water systems - Competent person
Legionella control in cooling water systems - Duly qualified person
Legionella control in cooling water systems - Independent auditor
Legionella control in cooling water systems - Local government authority
Legionella control in cooling water systems - Occupier
Legionella control in cooling water systems - regulatory requirements at a glance
Managing cooling water systems throughout their lifecycle
Mine dust and you
Mould
Nail treatment businesses
Naphthalene in moth balls and toilet deodorant cakes
Noise from public events
NSW Health's role in the regulation of cooling water systems
P2/N95 masks
Pobijedite vrućinu
Pobijedite vrućinu
Preventing cryptosporidiosis: a guide for persons with HIV, AIDS
Public Health Regulation 2022 - Key changes
Public swimming pools and spa pools - Incident response protocol for contamination of surfaces
Public swimming pools and spa pools - Incident response protocol for failure to meet microbiological parameters
Public swimming pools and spa pools - Incident response protocol for formed stool and vomit contamination
Public swimming pools and spa pools that use chlorine with cyanuric acid - Incident response protocol for diarrhoeal incident
Public swimming pools and spa pools that use chlorine without cyanuric acid - Incident response protocol for diarrhoeal incident
Questions and answers about mosquito bite avoidance
Rainwater and bushfires
Roles and powers of authorised officers
Sconfiggiamo il caldo
Sconfiggiamo il caldo
Shallow burials
Skin penetration business design and construction
Stabiliser (cyanurate) use in outdoor swimming pools
Staying healthy during a mouse plague
Steps to healthy swimming
Swimming pools and bushfires
Talunin ang Init
Thunderstorm asthma
Unflued gas heaters
Water fluoridation fact sheet
Waxing
Wild mushroom poisoning
Wood burning heaters and your health
Νικήστε τη ζέστη
Νικήστε τη ζέστη
Победете ја горештината
Победете ја горештината
تغلّب على الحر
تغلّب على الرح
防暑降温保健康
防暑降温保健康
防暑降溫保健康
防暑降溫保健康

Content 1

Content 2

Current as at: Monday 22 November 2021

Contact page owner: Environmental Health

Patients and public

Find a public hospital
ED waiting times
Patient care
healthdirect Australia

NSW Health

Our structure
Local health districts
Your Ministers
Value based healthcare

Publications

Policies and guidelines
Fact sheets
Control guidelines
Multilingual resources

Popular links

Health topics from A to Z
COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Mental health
Public dental services

Careers

Search for a job
JMO recruitment
Awards and conditions
Imagine Rural

Campaigns

Healthy Eating Active Living
Beat the heat
Childhood vaccinations
Smoke free

NSW Health acknowledges the people of the many traditional countries and language groups of New South Wales. It acknowledges the wisdom of Elders past and present, and pays respect to all Aboriginal communities of today.

NSW Government
Service NSW
Jobs
Accessibility
Copyright
Disclaimer
Privacy
RSS feeds