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Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Land can be contaminated by things like: heavy metals, such as arsenic,…
Your local council or an environment agency will decide if your land is…
The rules for who’s responsible for contamination and how to deal with it…
Explains surgical wound infection, and the national programme for monitoring infections acquired in hospitals, in English and 8 other languages.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Wet line contamination involves the cross contamination of road fuel with rebated fuels, which will either be red diesel or kerosene.
Guidance on the safe use of potentially contaminated residential land, gardens and allotments.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can do a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soils and groundwater.
How to control and avoid contamination in laboratory activities involving DNA evidence recovery and analysis.
Information for drug services to help them prevent, identify, treat and manage wounds in people who inject drugs.
Guidance on how to minimize the risk of DNA contamination in settings used routinely for sexual assault examinations, and police custody.
Training guide for NHS and emergency services staff on rapid screening of people for internal radioactive contamination.
This document explains the approaches for assessing the risk posed by soil contaminated with the genotoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
How to control and avoid contamination at incident scenes involving DNA evidence recovery and analysis.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of contaminated land exposure for human health.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
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