Chemical and environmental hazards

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Services

• Chemical hazards and poisons report: permission form and guidance

  Form and guidelines for authors applying to publish in the 'Chemical hazards and poisons (CHaP) report'.

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Guidance and regulation

• Damp and mould: understanding and addressing the health risks for rented housing providers
  • Guidance
  • 15 August 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department of Health and Social Care, and UK Health Security Agency
• Lead poisoning: advice for the public and healthcare professionals
  • Guidance
  • 8 October 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Chemical waste: appropriate measures for permitted facilities
  • Manual
  • 18 November 2020
  • Environment Agency
• Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL): user manual
  • Guidance
  • 8 November 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): registration, disposal, labelling
  • Detailed guide
  • 19 December 2022
  • Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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News and communications

• Public health advice following the Grenfell Tower fire
  • 24 September 2019
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • News story
• Heat health advice: 2019
  • 24 July 2019
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • News story
• Further environmental checks for Grenfell site
  • 26 October 2018
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
  • Press release
• Health advice for residents affected by Saddleworth Moor fire
  • 16 July 2018
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • News story
• New tool calculates NHS and social care costs of air pollution
  • 22 May 2018
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Environmental monitoring following the Grenfell Tower fire
  • 14 November 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) report
  • 7 November 2024
  • Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
  • Research
• Lead exposure in children: surveillance reports (from 2021)
  • 5 August 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Air pollutants: quantification of associated health effects
  • 8 September 2023
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• COMEAP annual report 2022
  • 15 June 2023
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Review of Environmental Assessment Levels (EALs) for emissions to air: second phase
  • 14 December 2023
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 20 June 2023
• Sales of acid: voluntary commitments for retailers
  • 25 July 2018
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Committees on Toxicity, Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment: joint annual report
  • 20 December 2023
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Corporate report
• Deaths from air pollution in Enfield and Barnet
  • 31 October 2016
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • Foi release
• NDA and PHE Epidemiology Governance Group Annual Report FY 2014/2015
  • 17 December 2015
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• UK Health Security Agency
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee

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• Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Environment Agency
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority