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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
Babies and children in hot weather
Beach and water safety
Beauty treatment businesses
Beauty, body art and skin penetration industries
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Body art and tattooing businesses
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Burial of a deceased person in a grave without a coffin
Burials on private land
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Bushfires and on-site wastewater systems
Carbon monoxide poisoning fact sheet
Cleaning and disinfection of foot spas
Cleaning and sterilising reusable equipment and instruments
Colonic lavage businesses
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
Heat-related illness including heat stroke
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
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
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
Ozone generators
P2 mask
PFOS and PFOA
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
Record keeping - log sheets
Returning home safely after a bushfire
Roles and powers of authorised officers
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
Thunderstorm asthma
Unflued gas heaters
Water fluoridation fact sheet
Waxing
Wild mushroom poisoning
Wood burning heaters and your health
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