Housing
Have a problem in your home, such as mould, bed bugs or unsafe drinking water? Learn how we can help.
Extreme Temperatures
Are you concerned about extreme heat or extreme cold? Learn more about heat alerts and cold alerts and steps you can take to protect yourself.
Cooling Towers
Do you operate a cooling tower system? Learn more about the Cooling Tower Registration Project and how to register your system and towers.
Health Hazards
The Health Protection and Promotion Act (R.S.O. 1990, c. H.7),1 defines a health hazard as:
- a condition of a premise
- a substance, thing, plant or animal other than man, or
- a solid, liquid, gas or combination of any of them
... that has or that is likely to have an adverse (harmful) effect on the health of any person.
What is the Middlesex-London Health Unit’s role?
In Ontario, healthy environments is one of the mandatory programs under the Ontario Public Health Standards which health units are required to deliver to the public.
Public Health Inspectors at the Middlesex-London Health Unit help prevent and reduce exposure to health hazards in the community and promote the development of healthy built and natural environments.
Additional Information
For more information on health hazards, please continue to browse this website, or speak to a Public Health Inspector on the Environmental Health Team by calling:
- 519-663-5317
Date of creation: December 11, 2012
Last modified on: January 20, 2022
Last modified on: January 20, 2022
References
1Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General. (1990). Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.7. Retrieved from
http://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h07
http://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h07