Diving in Contaminated Water: Health Risk Matrix
Abstract
Water contamination can pose a serious health risk to divers of the Canadian Forces (CF) required to dive in many different environments. D Dive S tasked DRDC to develop a health risk matrix in order to help the decision makers to evaluate the risks associated with water contamination in a particular area. This report contains information about water contamination and recommendations on contamination assessment. A matrix was developed using Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines (Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers, 1998) as well as North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) guidelines (NATO, 2002). The matrix also contains information on maximum environmental levels, health risks and toxicity, sources, uses and potentially contaminated areas. As the matrix is a tool for divers, few recommendations are given for its use. A list of useful web sites is also given.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA472962
Entities
People
- Bernadette Quemerais
Organizations
- Defence Research and Development Canada