Health & Safety in the Home, Workplace and Outdoors

About Health & Safety in the Home, Workplace & Outdoors

• Center for Environmental Health Directory
• Interactive Map: Regional, District and County Environmental Health Programs
• Center for Environmental Health Publications Available for Ordering
• Climate, Weather & Health
• Environmental Health Regulations
• Environmental Public Health Tracking
• Exposure Information
• Glossary of Environmental Health Terms
• Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant
• Case Studies in Environmental Medicine
• Wastewater Surveillance

Air Quality

• Indoor Air
• Outdoor Air

Chemicals

• Chemical Facts and Information
• Chemicals and Health

Children's Health & Safety

• Asthma
• Birth Defects
• Caring for Students with Life-Threatening Allergies (PDF)
• Children's Camps
• Be a Good Handwasher (Available in English and Spanish)
• Injury Prevention
• Reducing Environmental Exposures: The Seven Best Kid-Friendly Practices

Drinking Water

• Information About Our Drinking Water Supply
• Financing Mechanisms: Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
• Preventing Drinking Water Contamination
• Water System Level Improvements
• Drinking Water Response Activities to Address Local Water Supply Concerns
• Protection Against Legionella Regulatory Homepage

Emergency Preparedness

• Emergency Preparedness

Health & Safety Indoors

• Asthma: Find Your Environmental Asthma Triggers
• Asbestos
• Body Art - Tattooing and Body Piercing
• Cooling Centers
• Food Safety
• Healthy Homes
• Healthy Neighborhoods Program
• Healthy Schools
• Indoor Tanning
• Injury Prevention
• Odors & Health
• Protection Against Legionella Regulatory Homepage
• Radon Information
• Safe Cleaning
• Space Heaters
• Soil Vapor Intrusion

Health & Safety Outdoors

• Agricultural Fairgrounds
• Blue-Green Algae
• Campgrounds
• Chainsaw Safety for Homeowners
• Children's Camps
• Climate, Weather & Health
• Crumb-Rubber Infilled Synthetic Turf Athletic Fields
• Fish: Health Advice on Eating Fish You Catch
• Food Safety
• Giant Hogweed
• Healthy Gardening
• Injury Prevention
• Logging Safety: A Field Guide
• Mass Gatherings
• Protection Against Legionella Regulatory Homepage
• Septic Systems
• Skin Cancer
• Sun Safety
• Swimming Pools/Bathing Beaches/Recreational Aquatic Spray Grounds

Health & Safety in the Workplace

• Formaldehyde in Hair Straightening Products
• Latex Allergy Information
• National Toxic Substance Incidents Program
• Occupational Health
  • Asbestos
  • Heavy Metals Registry
  • Industrial Hygiene Consultation Services
  • Occupational Health Clinic Network, New York State
  • Occupational Health Surveillance Program
  • Occupational Lung Disease Registry
  • Work-Related Fatalities
• Right To Know Law

Lead Exposure & Lead Poisoning Prevention

• Heavy Metals Registry
• Lead Information

Pests & Pesticides

• Pests, Pesticides & Repellents
• Pesticide Poisoning--Resources for Physicians, Applicators and All New Yorkers

Radiological Health

• Radiation and Health
• Radiation Equipment
• Radioactive Materials
• Radiologic Science Professionals
• Radiological Emergency
• Radiological Health

Tobacco Control & Prevention

• Tobacco Control & Prevention

Community & Research Investigations & Advisories

Environmental Public Health Tracker

Track Community Environmental & Health Reports.

View information about environmental investigations in your neighborhood.

• Albany South End Community Health Outcome Review (PDF)
• Arsenic Mine
• Black River PCBs
• Bronx New School - PS 51X
• Brownfields
• Buffalo - Childhood Asthma and Environmental Risk Factors in the City of Buffalo
• Cayuga County Groundwater Contamination Health Consultation (PDF)
• Coram/Mt. Sinai/Port Jefferson Station Breast Cancer Follow-up Investigation
• Dewey Loeffel Landfill
• Drinking Water Response Activities to Address Local Water Supply Concerns
• Eighteen Mile Creek Corridor & Downstream Reaches
• Environmental Justice & Permitting
• Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation
• Flame Retardant Safety - New York State Task Force on Flame Retardant Safety
• Gowanus Canal
• Health Effects of Toll Plaza Air Quality in New York City
• Hinckley Reservoir
• Hoosick/Village of Hoosick Falls: PFOA in Drinking Water
• Hopewell Precision Area Contamination
• Hudson River
• ITT Sealectro (PDF)
• Lafarge Cement Plant
• Lawrence Aviation Letter Health Consultation (PDF)
• Liberty, Sullivan County, Health Outcomes Review
• Love Canal
• Lower Grasse River
• MacKenzie Chemical Works Health Consultation (PDF)
• National Lead Industries Biomonitoring Project
• Newtown Creek
• Northrop Grumman/Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant Facilities Groundwater Impacts - Health Consultation
• Outreach in Environmental Health
• Stuart Olver Holtz Site Health Consulation (PDF)
• Tetrachloroethylene Exposure and Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test Performance in Adults and Children Residing in Buildings With or Without a Dry Cleaner
• Tonawanda Study Area Health Outcomes Review
• Tri-Cities Barrel Company Health Consultation (PDF)
• Van Der Horst Area
• Violent Death Reporting System
• World Trade Center Health Studies and Information on Health Services