Contaminated sites - Reports and publications

Federal contaminated site risk assessment in Canada

Guidance

• Overview of Health Canada guidance documents related to human health risk assessment of federal contaminated sites
• Guidance on human health preliminary quantitative risk assessment (PQRA), version 3.0
• Toxicological reference values (TRVs), version 3.0
• Part III: Guidance on peer review of human health risk assessments for federal contaminated sites in Canada, version 2.0
• Part V: Guidance on human health detailed quantitative risk assessment for chemicals (DQRA_CHEM)
• Part VI: Guidance on human health detailed quantitative radiological risk assessment (DQRA_RAD)
• Part VII: Guidance for soil vapour intrusion assessment at contaminated sites

Interim guidance

• Human health risk assessment for short-term exposure to carcinogens at contaminated sites

Supplemental guidance

• Air quality version, 2.0
• Checklist for peer review of detailed human health risk assessment (HHRA)
• Contaminated sediments: Direct contact pathway
• Country foods (HHRA_Foods)
• Developing a contract statement of work (SOW) for human health preliminary quantitative risk assessment (PQRA) and detailed quantitative risk assessment (DQRA)
• Indoor settled dust
• Oral bioavailability of substances in soil and soil-like media

Public involvement

• A guide to involving Aboriginal Peoples in contaminated site management
• Addressing psychosocial factors through capacity building: A guide for managers of contaminated sites
• Improving stakeholder relationships: Public involvement and the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan: A guide for site managers

Fact sheets

• Benefits of public involvement for custodial departments
• Health impacts of site remediation
• Risk assessment and public involvement at contaminated sites
• Understanding risk management at federal contaminated sites