Applied Environmental Health ~ Environmental Services

Public health factsheets

• Asbestos: Frequently asked questions

• Bed bugs, prevention and treatment

• Benzene: Health effects

• Bird mites, prevention and treatment

• Bore water, using bore water safely

• Bushfire smoke and your health

• Cleanup of storm-damaged buildings, protecting health and environment

• Cosmetics and your health

• Cosmetics: Tips

• Domestic swimming pools, water care

• Headlice: Prevention and treatment

• Headlice: Wet combing and chemical treatment

• Heatwaves and your health

• Household mould, prevention and management

• Lead and your health, exposure reduction advice

• Legionnaires’ Disease (Legionella pneumophila), reducing risks in the home

• Lye water

• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): Health effects

• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Health effects

• Private Spa Pools: A maintenance guide for owners

• Rainwater tanks. maintenance and water care

• Rats, prevention and control

• Safe practices for tattooing and body piercing

• Scabies, prevention and treatment

• Second-hand goods, for consumers

• Second-hand goods, for retailers

• Ticks, prevention and treatment

• Trenching or excavating near waterways?

Water quality factsheets

• Using bore water safely

• Bore water quality testing

• Trichloroethene in groundwater in Beverley and surrounding suburbs

• Blue green algae

• Rainwater tanks: Maintenance and water care

• Domestic rainwater quality testing

• Commercial / community-based rainwater quality testing

• Rainwater quality and bushfires

• Water restrictions and health considerations

• Guidelines for the use of alternative water supplies

• Guidelines for the bulk carting of drinking water

• Guidelines for the carting of recycled water

• Private users of recycled water

• Safe use of recreational waters: Beaches, lakes and rivers

Wastewater factsheets

• Manual bucketing and temporary diversion of greywater

• Public and environmental health considerations: Greywater use

• Greywater guidelines for plumbers

• Installation of permanent onsite domestic greywater systems

• Draft guidelines for greywater systems product approval

• Maintenance of septic tank systems

• Maintenance of aerobic wastewater systems

• Composting toilets or other blackwater (toilet waste) systems

• Reedbed (second-stage wastewater treatment) systems

• Reclaimed water (treated effluent) reuse: Application guide

• Aerobic wastewater treatment system design criteria for towns and other large developments

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