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 Environmental Health Risk Assessment


 

The EHRA Course

EnTox offers a short fee-based course in Environmental Health Risk Assessment (EHRA) periodically. The next course is programmed for mid 2010 in Queensland.  If sufficient expressions of interest are received, EnTox will deliver a course sooner.

The course will be aimed at increasing knowledge and awareness of environmental health issues and in developing and updating methodological skills in hazard identification, exposure assessment, dose-response relationships, risk characterisation and risk management.

Who Should Attend?

The Environmental Health Risk Assessment Course is of relevance to all who are working, teaching or researching in environmental health, health risk assessment or related fields. Thus the course is of relevance to practitioners and professionals from:

  • private industry
  • non-government organisations
  • local, state and federal government
  • educational and research institutes and consulting/advisory organisations

Course Content

The course consists of lectures, seminars, workshops and case studies as well as project work. Participants are expected to work in teams and undertake a hypothetical scenario based on a real-life solution.

To lodge an expression of interest, contact EnTox

EnTox, PO Box 594, Archerfield, QLD, 4108
Phone: 61-7-3274-9009
Fax: 61-7-3000-9687
E-mail: entox@entox.uq.edu.au