It's Environmental Public Health Week

    Tuesday, 24 September 2024 07:00

    By Tonya Organ

    This year’s theme is – Create resilient communities through disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

    This is Environmental Public Health Week in Newfoundland and Labrador. This year’s theme is – Create resilient communities through disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Environmental public health professionals have been on the front lines of disaster response and recovery, helping to ensure safe drinking water and waste disposal, and sharing information about food safety, and indoor and outdoor air quality. They are certified to enforce public health legislation, ensuring that water, air, food, land and facilities in this province are safe.

     

     

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