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Environmental Health events, training and webinars

The Environmental Health Directorate hosts a range of educational programs including webinars, workshops and seminars to support environmental health professionals, industry and health professionals to enforce or comply with a range of environmental health legislation and to manage environmental health risks.

Upcoming webinars or seminars

Register to attend upcoming environmental health webinars or seminars.

 Date Topic  Location Registration
Tuesday 28 February 2023, 9am to 11am Food Safety Management Tools - for local government Environmental Health Professionals. Shenton Park, Perth Register here (external site)
Tuesday 7 March 2023, 1:30pm to 3:30pm  Food Safety Management Tools - for local government Environmental Health Professionals. Online webinar  Register here (external site)
Tuesday 14 March 2023, 9am to 11am 

101 of skin penetration regulatory requirements and meth smoke houses. 

  		Online webinar Register here (external site)
Friday 17 March 2023, 10:30am to 2:00pm Food Safety Management Tools and Horticulture Standards - for local government Environmental Health Professionals. Margaret River Register here (external site)
29 - 31 March 2023 2.5 day Mosquito Management Course. Karratha Register here
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 9am to 11am
Food Act enforcement agencies’ roles and responsibilities in the regulatory food safety auditing system. Key roles and responsibilities include:
  • enforcing the requirement for certain food businesses to implement a documented food safety program
  • verifying food safety program
  • assigning the initial audit frequency
  • follow-up of regulatory food safety audit outcomes.
 Online webinar To be confirmed
June - date to be confirmed CLAG forum for local governments to discuss mosquito management issues. To be confirmed To be confirmed
Tuesday 7 November, 9am to 11am

To be confirmed.

 Online webinar To be confirmed

How to register for an event

Register for events using the Environmental Health Directorate Eventbrite page (external site).  

Find out about events

To find out when upcoming events are organised sign up to the Environmental Health e-news (external site).

Library of webinar recordings

Explore our library of environmental health webinars below.

Asbestos

The following webinars are available on asbestos management.

Topic Presentation Further resources
Asbestos contamination

Guidelines for the assessment, remediation and management of asbestos contaminated sites workshop – 26 November 2021 (external site)

  1. Prevention of asbestos contaminated sites (external site)
  2. Asbestos contaminated soils – WorkSafe WA (external site)
  3. Contaminated sites guidelines and asbestos contaminated sites – DWER (external site)
  4. Assessment and management of asbestos contaminated sites – DOH (external site)
  5. Management of asbestos in parklands and reserves (external site)
 Learn more.
Fire damaged asbestos in local government Management of fire damaged asbestos in local government (external site) Learn more.
Environmental Health Workforce

The following webinars are available on Environmental Health workforce matters.

Topic Presentation Further resources
Environmental Health Professional Review Board WA Environmental Health Professional Review Board – November 2021 (external site) Learn more.
Environmental Health Workforce Capacity Environmental Health Workforce Planning and Capability Development – November 2021 (external site)  
Events and public buildings

The following webinars are available on events and public buildings. 

 Topic  Presentation  Further resources
Public buildings and event regulation Events and buildings
Examples of public buildings disasters  

Food

The following webinars are available on food safety matters.

Topic Presentation Further resources
Food Safety Culture Food safety culture – March 2021 (external site)  
Food labelling

Food Safety Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) – March 2022:

 Learn more.
Food Safety Management Systems   Food Safety Management Systems - November 2022 (external site)  
Horticulture Standards - Berries, leafy vegetables and melons  Horticulture Standards - Berries, leafy vegetables and melons - November 2022 (external site)
  • For EH Practitioners
  • For industry
Mosquito Entomology

The following webinars are available on mosquito management and surveillance.

Topic Presentation Further resources
Atlas of Medical Entomology Refresher on using the Atlas of Medical Entomology (external site) Learn more (external site).
CLAG forum 2022

Refer to the mosquito management playlist (external site) to view all webinars. 

  1. Introduction to Japanese Encephalitis virus (external site)
  2.  Japanese Encephalitis virus symptoms and vaccine program (external site)
  3.  Japanese Encephalitis virus surveillance plan and overview (external site)
  4. Northern WA JEV surveillance program (external site)
  5.  Japanese Encephalitis virus in animals (external site)
  6. Enhanced southern surveillance in proximity of piggeries (external site)
  7. Japanese Encephalitis virus response (external site)
  8. Capability survey (external site)
  9. 2022 season wrap up (external site)
  10. Shire of Derby West Kimberley update (external site)
  11. Karratha update (external site)
  12. Carnarvan update (external site)
  13. East Swan River update (external site)
  14. Swan Canning Rivers CLAG update (external site)
  15. South Metro CLAG update (external site)
  16. Peel CLAG update (external site)
  17. Leschenault CLAG update (external site)
  18. Geographe CLAG update (external site)
  19. OmniDrone presentation (external site)
  20. CLAG funding 2022-23 (external site)
 Refer to CLAG 
Public Health Act administration
Topic Presentation    Further resources
 Overview  Overview of the Public Health Act 2016 (external site)  Learn more.
 Staged implementation  Staged implementation of the Public Health Act 2016 (external site)  Learn more. 
 Reporting requirements  Reporting requirements for local government under the Public Health Act 2016 (external site)  Learn more. 
 Authorised officers  Designation of authorised officers (external site)  Learn more. 

Public health planning

The following presentation is available on public health planning.

Topic Presentation Further resources
Public health planning What is local government's role in public health? (external site) Learn more.
Wastewater

The following presentations are available on wastewater matters.

Topic Presentation
Basic plumbing overview
Last reviewed: 04-04-2022

For queries about Environmental Health webinars email Environmental Health Stakeholder Engagement.

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