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Environmental and Workplace Health

Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
Sources and Surveillance Activities

Index of Data Sources Classified by Federal Government Department or by Province/Territory

1) Federal Data Sources

Environment Canada

  • Environmental Monitoring Inventory Database (EMI)
  • National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

  • National Contaminants Information System (NCIS)

Geological Survey of Canada

  • Geochemical Database (SMGV1Published)
  • Prairie Soils (1992) and Ontario Soils (1994) [(Pr92 and Ont94)]

Health Canada

  • Arctic Contaminants Database
  • Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Database
  • Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program: Economic Impact Study
  • Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program: Etiology Surveillance System
  • Canadian Heart and Stroke Surveillance System (CHSSS)
  • Cancer Case Surveillance System
  • Chemical Health Hazard Assessment Tracking System
  • Chronic Respiratory Surveillance System
  • Drugs and Controlled Substances Database
  • Economic Burden of Illness in Canada
  • Enteric Disease Surveillance System (EDSS)
  • Enteric, Food and Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance
  • Environmental Cancer Risk Surveillance System
  • Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)
  • Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Database
  • Injury Surveillance [including Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP)]
  • Hedgehog Environmental Reporting System (HERS)
  • Hospital Morbidity Database
  • International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) Database
  • Inventory of Canadian Cardiovascular Disease Databases (ICCDD)
  • National Dose Registry (NDS)
  • National Enteric Surveillance Program (NESP)
  • National Environmental Monitoring of Radionuclides
  • National Health Care Worker Influenza and Hepatitis B Vaccine Coverage Survey
  • National Population Health Survey (NPHS) Asthma Supplement 1996/97
  • National Surveillance for Enteric Pathogens from Food and Animals -- Guelph Laboratory
  • Physician Asthma Management Survey (PAMS)
  • Product Safety Information System (PSIS)
  • Product Toxicity Data Network (ProdTox) (Health Canada)
  • Spatial Data Warehouse (SDW)
  • Student Lung Health Survey (SLHS) 1995-96
  • West Nile Virus Database

Statistics Canada

  • Canadian Community Health Survey CCHS

2) Provincial / Territori

al Data Sources

Alberta

  • Injury Records Database

British Columbia

  • Air Data and Management System (ADaMS)
  • Comprehensive Record & Information System for Pesticides (CRISP)
  • Environmental Monitoring System (EMS)
  • Leak Test Sampling Database
  • Lotus Notes R5 Database
  • Site Information System (SITE)
  • Special Waste Information System (SWIS)
  • Watertrax
  • Year 2000 Emission Inventory Update

Manitoba

  • Client File Database (Manitoba Environment Act)
  • Environmental Data Management System (EDMS)
  • Environmental Monitoring Company (EMC) System Manager Central Data Management System

New Brunswick

  • Environment Integrated System (EnvI)
  • Municipal Wastewater Database
  • Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS 2000 FE) Database
  • Septage Database

Newfoundland

  • Central Information System (CIS) (Occupational Health)
  • Equipment Registration Database
  • Municipal Information Management System (MIMS)
  • (Occupational Health and Safety) Client-Generated Activities Database
  • Radiation Exposure Report Database
  • Water Quality Database

Northwest Territories

  • Air Quality and Meteorological Database
  • Compensation Assessment and Accident Prevention System (CAAPS)
  • Prevention Services Information System (PSIS) (WBC of the NWT & Nunavut)

Nova Scotia

  • CodeSTAT Database
  • Emergency Health Services of Nova Scotia (EHSNS) Quality Assurance Database

Nunavut

  • Drinking Water Quality Database
  • Prevention Services Information System (PSIS) (WBC of the NWT & Nunavut)
  • Spills Database

Ontario

  • Air Quality Information System (AQUIS)
  • Asbestos Workers Registry
  • Drinking Water Information Management System (DWIMS)
  • Drinking Water Web System (DWWS)
  • Environmental Data Store (EDS)
  • Merged Information System (MIS)
  • Occupational Exposure Database Management (OEDM)
  • OnAIR Database
  • Pesticide Products Information System (PEPSIS)
  • Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS)
  • Sample Results Data Store (SRDS)
  • Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program Database (FISHBASE)

Quebec

  • Banque de données commune (BDC) (Community Database)
  • Climatologie (Climatology Database)
  • Connaissance et surveillance de la qualité de l'air (CESPA) (Air Quality Knowledge and Surveillance Database)
  • Fichier des tumeurs du Québec (J65) (Québec Tumour File)
  • Intoxications (Poisonings Database)
  • Inventaire des Émissions Atmosphériques (INVSRC) (Inventory of Atmospheric Emissions)
  • Referentiel Territorial (M34) (Territorial Referential Database)
  • Surveillance Médico-Environnementale de la santé des travailleurs (SMEST) (Medico-Environmental Surveillance of Workers' Health)
  • Système informatisé Eau-Potable (LCH) (Drinking Water Information System)
  • Système de surveillance épidémiologique sur les maladies à déclarations obligatoires (MADO) (Epidemiological Surveillance System for Mandatory Reportable Diseases)
  • Toxin (Toxin Database)

Saskatchewan

  • Links Database of OHS Division Activities (Saskatchewan)
  • Oracle Research Database of WCB Claims (Oracle/WCB) (Saskatchewan)
  • Saskatchewan Environment's Environmental Management System (SEEMS)

Yukon

  • Hedgehog Environmental Systems (Yukon)
  • Mine Medical X-Ray Database (Yukon)
  • Waste Manifest Database (Yukon)

3) Other

  • Work Injuries and Diseases Database (NWISP) (Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada)
  • Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP)