Health Hazard Prevention and Management

The Porcupine Health Unit plays a major role in preventing or reducing the negative health effects resulting from exposure to health hazards. Health hazards refer to any physical, chemical, and biological factors existent within the home, neighborhood and/or workplace and that has or that is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of any person. Communication of the risk and action taken in the event of a hazard protects community health.

Related Information:

Indoor Air Quality

• Asbestos
• Carbon monoxide
• Mould, Dampness and Humidity
• Radon

Lead

• Effects of Lead on Human Health
• Lead-based paint
• Lead crystalware and your health
• Reducing Exposure to Lead

Outdoor Air Quality

• Air Quality Ontario
• Dioxins and Furans

Other related information

• Aluminum and human health
• Arsenic and your health
• Bisphenol A
• Blastomycosis
• Blue-green algae: Information for cottagers & home-owners
• Fluorides and human health
• Mold and your health
• Reduce arsenic exposure in areas of suspected arsenic contamination of soil

Other sources for health hazards prevention and management information:

• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Pests and Pest Control

• Bed Bugs
• Pesticides and Pest Management

 

Last updated: May 17, 2012