Environmental incidents
- The nature of hazards, duration of their fugitive presence, and extent of spread
- The nature, severity, and clinical foreseeability of health complaints, health outcomes, and who these are likely to affect or do affect
Outbreak of an acute disorder
- The likely availability and reasonable practicability of preventive measures
- The natural history, clinical features, clinical foreseeability of harm, and foreseeable severity of harm from clustered medical conditions
Environmental incidents
- Environmental audits
- Method and periodicity of air and water monitoring, and the interpretation of monitoring results
Outbreak investigations
- Methodology of outbreak investigation and report writing
Remediation of contaminated sites
- Measures of satisfactory decontamination
Environmental incidents
- Actions related to histories of environmental incidents, and how they have arisen
- Assessment of technical reports against foreseeable health risks and relevant outcomes, including reports on:
- human factors
- occupational hygiene
- safety systems
- toxicology
- Critical evaluation of relevant technical reports
- Likely ameliorative efforts already undertaken in environmental incidents
- Management of stakeholders, who may have differing perceptions and agendas, in environmental health issues
- Risk communication
- Scientific methodologies that have regulatory or authoritative recognition
Outbreak of acute disorders
- How to keep those affected and relevant community members appropriately informed
- How to recognise and support organisations’ staff health strategies with respect to clusters, outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, and the endemic nature of conditions
- Medical and medicolegal determinants of need for isolation or separation of cases
- Methodologies for formulating reasonable plans and strategies with awareness of own personal role(s), including the potential for relevant perceptions of bias and/or conflicts of interest
- Organisations that should be notified, and individuals who should be involved
- The appropriate involvement of families and others who are close to those affected
- The foreseeable reaction of those involved and those nearby
- The method, and likely time required, to confirm cases and coordinate effective, sustainable, and timely health protection responses
- The role of emergency services
Remediation of contaminated sites
- Approaches to this type of problem and their usual effects
- Consequences of adverse weather or problems of access
- Critical analysis of health monitoring information and systems
- Environment and planning laws, and who is responsible for administering them
- Interfaces between operations and health protection regulations
- Likely appearance of sites once work is completed
- Sensitive areas in proximity
- Site history
- Strategies for the transport and disposal of soil
- The remediation process, from beginning to end
- Toxicological nature of contamination
Site health emergency response capability
- An understanding of site health and safety risks and external response capabilities
- Site emergency health response capabilities required to respond to onsite acute illnesses and injuries
