Contact Us -- Environmental and Workplace Health
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Air Quality
Contact the Air Health Effects Division for information about air quality, including:
- Mold
- Carbon Monoxide
- Radon
- Protecting Your Health
- Residential Indoor Air Quality Guidelines
- Indoor Air Quality -- Tools for Schools Action Kit
- Healthy Indoors Partnership
- Outdoor air
- Health effect
- Diesel
- Ethanol
- Manganese
- Pollutants and smog
- Research
- Risk assessment
- Border Air Quality Strategy
- Regulations
- Publications
- Workshop Summaries
Climate Change and Health
Contact Climate Change and Health for information about climate change and health, including:
- Climate change health risks
- Adaptive measures
- Resource tools
- Research experts and results
- Health assessments
Contaminated Sites
Contact the Contaminated Sites Division for information about contaminated sites, including:
- Human health risk assessment guidance
- Public involvement in the contaminated sites management process
- Research, reports and publications on human health risk assessment
- Soil quality guidelines for federal contaminated sites
Environmental Contaminants
Contact the Existing
Substances Division for information about environmental contaminants,
including:
- Priority Substance List
- Priority Substance Assessment Program
- Categorization of Substances on the Domestic Substances List
- Screening Assessment of Existing Substances
- Integrated Framework
- Maximal List
- Greatest Potential for Human Exposure
- Health Based Guidance Values for Priority Substances
- Section 75 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
- Information about joining our Mailing List
Contact the Environmental
Assessment Unit for information about:
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- New Substances Notification Regulations
- Pre-import or pre-manufacture assessments of new substances in Food and Drugs Act products
Contact the New
Chemical Substances for information about:
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- New Substances Notification Regulations
- Pre-import or pre-manufacture assessments of new chemicals/biochemicals and polymers/biopolymers
Contact the New
Substances Assessment and Control Bureau for information
about:
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- New Substances Notification Regulations
- New chemicals/biochemicals and polymers/biopolymers
- New animate products of biotechnology
- New substances in F&DA products
Contact Products
of Biotechnology for information about:
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- New Substances Notification Regulations
- Pre-import or pre-manufacture assessments of new animate products of biotechnology
Environmental Health Assessment
Contact Environmental Health Assessment Services for general inquiries about the assessment of the potential health impacts of development projects.
For inquiries relating to specific regional activities, please contact the appropriate regional office
Environmental Impact Initiative
Contact Environmental Impact Initiative for information about environmental health assessment, including:
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) 1999
- Products regulated by the Food and Drugs Act (F&DA)
- Assessment of new substances for use in Canada for both direct and indirect impacts on human health and the environment.
- Environmental Assessment Regulations
- Options Analysis Paper -- An Environmental Assessment Regime for New Substances in Products Regulated under the Food and Drugs Act
Environmental Radiation
Contact the Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network for information about:
- Environmental radioactivity measurements across Canada
- Health assessments regarding existing levels of radioactivity
- Measuring routine or accidental releases of radioactivity in the environment
Contact the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty for information about:
- Background of the Treaty and the International Organisation
- Canada and the Treaty
- Health Canada's Technical Contribution
Contact the Radiological Impact Section for information about:
Research on:
- The transport of radioactivity through environmental pathways
- The uptake of radioactive substances by the human body
- The health effects of ionizing radiation
Noise
Contact Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau for information about:
- Aircraft, recreational and community noise
Occupational Health and Safety
Contact National Dosimetry Services for information about:
- Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation
- Ionizing radiation measurement and protection -- A measure of safety
- Ionizing radiation worker monitorin
- Ionizing radiation monitoring for emergency workers
Contact Workplace Health and Public Safety Program for information about:
- Employee Assistance Program
- Workplace Health
Contact the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System - National Office / National Secretariat for information about:
- Program administration
- Classification
- Supplier labels
- Supplier material safety data sheets
- Confidential business information
- Substance-specific issues
- International harmonization
Health Canada 's WHMIS Division provides the national secretariat and serves as the national coordinator for the overall governance and administration of the WHMIS program in Canada.
Contact the National Dose Registry for information about:
- Assistance in regulatory control of over exposures
- Evaluation of dose trends and statistics
- Providing dose data the to the United Nations Scientific Committee
- Health research studies on risks from occupational exposure to ionizing radiation
- Providing dose histories to individual workers and organizations
Contact the National Calibration Reference Centre for Bioassay and In Vivo Monitoring for information about:
- Intercomparison programs for the measurement of internal radiation exposures of workers
- Certification requirements under the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Regulatory Standard
- Performance standards
- Methods development in support of its intercomparison programs and research studies
Radiation
Contact the Consumer
and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau for information
about:
- Aircraft, recreational and community noise
- Mammography
- X-rays
- Ultrasound
- Electric and magnetic fields
- Radiofrequency fields
- Ultraviolet radiation
Contact National Dosimetry Services for information about radiation, including:
- Ionizing radiation measurement and protection -- A measure of safety
- Ionizing radiation worker monitoring
- Ionizing radiation monitoring for emergency workers
Contact the Federal Provincial Territorial Radiation Protection Committee for information about the intergovernmental Committee established to support Federal, Provincial and Territorial radiation protection agencies in their respective mandates by:
- providing a national focus for government radiation protection agencies;
- promoting the harmonization of radiation health and safety programs;
- identifying emerging issues in radiation protection and recommending actions to the appropriate jurisdictions;
- developing and harmonizing radiation protection standards, guidelines and input for legislation;
- providing a forum for representatives of the provinces and territories, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and Health Canada;
- considering requests from other governmental committees and agencies concerned with health, safety and environmental issues and liaising regularly with such committees and agencies.
Water Quality
Contact the Water Quality and Health Bureau for information about water quality, including:
- Drinking Water
- The Multi-Barrier Approach to Safe Drinking Water
- Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water
- Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality
- Drinking Water Materials
- Drinking Water and Your Health
- Recreational water
Reports and Publications
Obtain copies of reports and publications.
General Inquiries
Don't see the topic of your inquiry listed here? Contact Health Canada General Inquiries and your message will be directed to the appropriate area.
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