Environmental Health Hazard Resources

Find various information resources for evaluating health hazards, along with specific data and information for Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Resources

• Environmental Public Health Tracking has Wisconsin-specific data on over a dozen environmental public health topics.
• Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Environmental Cleanup and Redevelopment shares the DNR's efforts to clean up and redevelop the environment.
• Wisconsin Remediation and Redevelopment Database allows you to search the interlinked system tracking information on different contaminated land activities.

Risk Assessment

• Assessment of Chemical Exposure training shows how to perform an epidemiological assessment after a chemical incident.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Risk Assessment has information on what a risk assessment is and how to conduct it.
• Toxics Release Inventory Program has information across the nation on toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities.
• EPA's MyEnvironment allows you to get an assessment of your environment using your ZIP code.
• How do scientists set health-based guidelines, P-02317 (PDF) shares an example using a non-cancer approach.

Toxicology

• American College of Medical Toxicology has a list of useful links for toxicological assessment and reference.
• Toxicology trainings listed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• ToxTutor is a self-paced learning tutorial covering key principles of toxicology for users of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) chemical and toxicology databases.