Browsing Manuals, Guides and Toolkits by Author "World Health Organization"
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Acrylamide Health and Safety Guide
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (World Health Organization, 1991)The purpose of a Health and Safety Guide is to facilitate the application of these guidelines in national chemical safety programmes. The first three sections of a Health and Safety Guide highlight the relevant technical ... -
Analytical Methods for Measuring Lead in Blood: Toolkit for Establishing Laws to Eliminate Lead Paint - Second Edition
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (2021) -
Analytical Methods for Measuring Lead in Paint: Toolkit for Establishing Laws to Eliminate Lead Paint - Second Edition
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (2021) -
Compendium of WHO and other UN Guidance on Health and Environment
World Health Organization; United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Children's Fund (World Health Organization, 2021)This compendium provides a systematic compilation of published guidance from WHO and other UN organizations on all major areas of health and the environment. This guidance also includes information about ways to raise ... -
Conducting Awareness-Raising Campaigns on Lead: International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week - Toolkit for Establishing Laws to Eliminate Lead Paint - Second Edition
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Consumo en tiempos de la COVID-19: Estilos de vida sostenibles en el hogar
United Nations Environment Programme (2020)Presentamos aquí una breve guía que recopila recomendaciones de nuestros expertos del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente, PNUMA, así como de varias agencias del sistema de las Naciones Unidas para ... -
Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (2008)The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ... -
GEF: Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances - Bibliography for a Selected Number of Persistent Toxic Substances
United Nations Environment Programme (2000)This bibliography is intended to support the activities within the GEF Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances. -
Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (2008)This publication is intended to assist countries in identifying specific populations or subpopulations that may be at risk. It aims to provide guidance on estimating exposures to mercury through biomonitoring as well as ... -
Guide for Reducing Major Uses and Releases of Mercury
United Nations Environment Programme (2006)This document is intended to assist countries to identify sources of mercury exposure and to assess main methods of reducing mercury exposures and risks to their people. -
Guidelines for Predicting Dietary Intake of Pesticide Residues
Food Contamination Monitoring Programme; Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (1989)The present guidelines describe procedures for predicting the dietary intake of pesticide residues, and are intended to assist national authorities in their considerations regarding the acceptability of Codex MRLs. -
Health & Environment: Tools for Effective Decision-Making: Review of Initial Findings
World Health Organization; United Nations Environment Programme (2004)In response to the urgent need for a more coherent and proactive policy agenda, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) joined forces at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable ... -
The Health Impacts of Lead Exposure - Toolkit for Establishing Laws to Eliminate Lead Paint Second Edition
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization (United Nations Environment Programme, 2021) -
Model Law and Guidance for Regulating Lead Paint
United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)The purpose of this guidance is to assist countries to enact new laws (or to modify their existing laws) to establish a single regulatory limit on the total lead content in paints. The guidance describes the key elements ... -
The Need for Regulating Lead Paint - Toolkit for Establishing Laws to Eliminate Lead Paint Second Edition
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Safety and Health in the Use of Chemicals at Work - A Training Manual
International Labour Organization; World Health Organization; United Nations Environment Programme (1993)The International Labour Conference adopted, in June 1990, the Chemicals Convention (No. 170), and Recommendation (No. 177), with a view to reducing the incidence of chemically induced illness and injuries at work. -
Water Pollution Control - A Guide to the Use of Water Quality Management Principles
United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (1997)Water pollution control is clearly one of the most critical of those challenges. Without urgent and properly directed action, developing countries face mounting problems of disease, environmental degradation and economic ... -
WHO air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide: Global update 2005: Summary of risk assessment
World Health OrganizationThe new information included in this latest update of the Air quality guidelines relate to four common air pollutants: particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). The scope of this ...