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Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information [...]

Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) strives to provide relevant and useful information for environmental health practitioners. In a recent membership survey, we heard your request for information in the Journal that is more applicable to your daily work. We listened and are pleased to feature this column from a cadre of environmental health luminaries with over 300 years of combined experience in the environmental health field. This group will share their tricks of the trade to help you create a tool kit of resources for your daily work. The conclusions of this column are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of NEHA, nor does it imply endorsement of any products, services, or resources mentioned., As environmental health practitioners and sanitarians who have been there and done that, we can honestly say that of all the mistakes we made in our careers, poor field sampling [...]

I recently read an article published by the Journal of Public Health titled, 'Environmental Health in Australia: Overlooked and Underrated.' The authors lament the fact that despite the importance of [...]

The Healthy People initiative provides science-based national goals and objectives with 10-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of all people [...]

Editor's Note: In an effort to promote the growth of the environmental health profession and the academic programs that fuel that growth, NEHA has teamed up with the Association of [...]

This paper discusses the process used to develop an environmental health addendum to the Assessment Protocol for Public Health (APEX/PH). Local health departments in Washington State are undertaking a trial program utilizing APEX/PH. The environmental health addendum was developed in response to the paucity of environmental health-oriented data requested in APEX/PH, Part H, the Community Process, and includes environmental exposure indicators as well as health status indicators. The methods used to gain a consensus among key environmental health professionals in Washington State are discussed and an environmental issue prioritization scheme is recommended. The need for the environmental health addendum and future work on the addendum and APEX/PH are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an overview of the different types of inspections and where and when they are appropriate in the environmental health field. It discusses the basic inspection types including regulatory and multimedia compliance which uses objective and subjective criteria, auditing or on-site verification activity, forensic which relies on time-dependent observations, and evaluation which is performance-based, goal-oriented and data-driven.

In the article, the authors discuss the need for environmental health professionals to focus on ensuring their personal safety to avoid unintentional injuries and illnesses. Also cited are the resources on safety like the hazard datasheet published by the International Labour Organization's International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre, the common on-site injuries like slips and falls, and the recommended preventive measures.