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Advice on Mosquito Control During Floods and Public Events
Asbestos and Health Risks
Avoiding Spider Bites
Babies and Children in Hot Weather
Beach and water safety
Beauty Treatment - hygiene standards
Biosolids
Body Piercing - hygiene requirements
Bushfire Smoke
Cleaning and Disinfection of Foot Spas
Colonic Lavage (or colonic irrigation) - hygiene standards
Continual Breakpoint Chlorination
Controlling Chloramines in Indoor Swimming Pools
Control of public swimming pools and spa pools
Control of skin penetration procedures
Cremation Ashes
Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Swimming Pools and Spa Pools
Dioxins
Disinfectant Dosing Systems
Disinfection of Public Swimming Pools and Spa Pools
Dust Storms
Ethlyene Oxide
Eyeball Tattooing
Fire retardants and private water sources
Flying Foxes and Health - Questions & Answers
Frostbite
Full body scan and virtual colonoscopy health risks
Groundwater contamination by EDC at Botany
Hairdressing and Barbers - Hygiene Standards
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 sterilise your instruments and comply with the Public Health Regulation 2012
Hypothermia
Lead Exposure in Children
Mercury and health
Mine Blast Fumes and You
Mine Dust and You
Mould
Nail Treatment (manicures and pedicures) - hygiene standards
Naphthalene in Moth Balls and Toilet Deodorant Cakes
Noise from public events
Oxidation-Reduction Potential
Ozone Generators
PFOS and PFOA
PFOS and PFOA – Williamtown RAAF Site Contamination
Preventing Cryptosporidiosis: A Guide for Persons with HIV, AIDS
Rainwater (roof water) harvesting for swimming pools
Record Keeping - Log Sheets
Reuse and Recycling of Swimming Pool Backwash Water
Rove Beetles
Stabiliser (Cyanurate) Use in Outdoor Swimming Pools
Swimming Pool Chemistry Testing Frequency
Swimming Pool Microbiological Testing Frequency
Tattooing and other body art - hygiene standards
Thunderstorm asthma
Ticks
Unflued Gas Heaters
Waxing - hygiene standards
Wild Mushroom Poisoning
Wood burning heaters and your health
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Current as at: Monday 11 November 2019
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