EHS Spotlight: HIAs, Plain Language Summaries; Pool Module for Comment

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New EHS Spotlight Features: Establishing the Practice of HIAs in the U.S.; EHS-Net Plain Language Summaries; Draft Pool Module for Comment (Lifeguarding and Bather Supervision)
Establishing the Practice of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in the United States – Guest columnist CDR Arthur M. Wendel describes HIAs and how they are instrumental in building healthy and safe community environments. He also describes tools and resources to help EH practitioners engage in HIAs. This article is published in the July/August 2012 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health.

EHS-Net Plain Language Summaries – No time to read journal articles detailing EHS-Net findings? Summaries of 12 EHS-Net studies are now available in four categories:

• Restaurant-related foodborne illness outbreaks.
• General public's belief about gastroinestinal illness.
• Restaurant food handling and food safety practices.
• Retail food safety programs.
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EHS-Net (the Environmental Health Specialists Network) works to identify and prevent environmental factors contributing to foodborne and waterborne illness outbreaks.
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Draft Lifeguarding and Bather Supervision Module for Public Comment – This draft Model Aquatic Health Code module is open for public comment through July 30, 2012.

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The Lifeguarding and Bather Supervision Module is a first step toward improving the consistency in training, lifeguard management and supervision, lifeguard competency for guarded facilities, and proper bather supervision at unguarded facilities. The module contains requirements for unguarded and guarded aquatic facilities, general requirements for lifeguard training, and more.