Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288:reg:2:p1
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Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 1/9)
Character Range: 895572–898876

2                   The Australian risk assessment framework

2.1              The enHealth framework
The Environmental Health Committee (enHealth) provides national leadership on human health issues from environmental hazards, coordinates national policies and programs, and provides a pivotal link between international and environmental health stakeholders in Australia. It is also responsible for the implementation of the National Environmental Health Strategy. Additional information on enHealth, including access to its publications, is available via the Department of Health and Ageing website:
 http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-environ-enhealth-committee.htm.
In 2004, enHealth developed Environmental Health Risk Assessment - Guidelines for assessing human health risks from environmental hazards (enHealth 2004) to provide a national approach to undertaking environmental health risk assessments  and updated these guidelines in 2012 (enHealth 2012a). The guidelines present a general environmental health risk assessment methodology that has been adopted nationally to evaluate risks and establish standards for the protection of human health and the environment.

With respect to assessment of risks from contaminated land, the guidelines draw on other documents as follows:
    * Assessment and management of contaminated sites (ANZECC & NHMRC 1992)
    * SA Health Commission contaminated sites monograph series 1991, 1993, 1996 and 1998 (El Saadi & Langley 1991; Langley & van Alphen 1993, Langley et al. 1996a, 1996b)
    * Environment Protection and Heritage Council, Proceedings of the 5th national workshop on the health and environmental assessment of site contamination (Langley et al. 2003)
    * National Environment Protection (Ambient Air Quality) Measure, Report of the risk assessment task force (NEPC 2000)
    * National Research Council, Science and decisions: advancing risk assessment (NRC 2008)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation manual, Part A (US EPA 1989)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation manual, Part B, Development of risk-based preliminary remediation goals (US EPA 1991a)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation manual, Part C, Risk evaluation of remedial alternatives (US EPA 1991b)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation Manual, Part D, Standardized planning, reporting and review of Superfund risk assessments (US EPA 1998)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation manual Part E, Supplemental guidance for dermal risk assessment (US EPA 2004b)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation manual Part F, Supplemental guidance for inhalation risk assessment (US EPA 2009)
    * US EPA, Risk assessment guidance for Superfund, volume I, Human health evaluation manual, Supplement to Part A: Community involvement in Superfund risk assessments (US EPA 1999)
    * World Health Organization, IPCS Risk assessment terminology, Harmonisation project, document no. 1 (WHO 2004)
    * World Health Organization, Principles of characterising