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

Index of Data Sources Classified by Subject Area

Air Quality

• Air Data and Management System (ADaMS) (British Columbia)
• Air Quality Information System (AQUIS) (Ontario)
• Air Quality and Meteorological Database (Northwest Territories)
• Connaissance et surveillance de la qualité de l'air (CESPA) (Air Quality Knowledge and Surveillance Database, Québec)
• Environmental Data Management System (EDMS) (Manitoba)
• Environmental Monitoring Company (EMC) System Manager Central Data Management System (Manitoba)
• Inventaire des Émissions Atmosphériques (INVSRC) (Inventory of Atmospheric Emissions, Québec)
• OnAIR Database (Ontario)
• Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS 2000 FE) Database (New Brunswick) (tracks approved buyers & wholesalers of ODS)
• Year 2000 Emission Inventory Update (British Columbia)

Cancer

• Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Database (Health Canada)
• Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program: Economic Impact Study (Health Canada)
• Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program: Etiology Surveillance System (Health Canada)
• Cancer Case Surveillance System (Health Canada)
• Environmental Cancer Risk Surveillance System (Health Canada)
• Fichier des tumeurs du Québec (J65) (Québec Tumour File)

Environmental Contaminants

• Arctic Contaminants Database (Health Canada)
• Leak Test Sampling Database (environmental radiation; British Columbia)
• National Contaminants Information System (NCIS) (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) (Environment Canada)
• National Environmental Monitoring of Radionuclides (Health Canada)

Food Contaminants

• Chemical Health Hazard Assessment Tracking System (Health Canada)
• Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program Database (FISHBASE) (Ontario)

Hazardous Materials / Contaminated Waste

• Septage Database (New Brunswick)
• Site Information System (SITE) (British Columbia)
• Special Waste Information System (SWIS) (British Columbia)
• Spills Database (Nunavut)
• Waste Manifest Database (Yukon)

Infectious Disease

• Enteric Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) (Health Canada)
• Enteric, Food and Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance (Health Canada)
• International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) Database (Health Canada)
• National Enteric Surveillance Program (NESP) (Health Canada)
• National Surveillance for Enteric Pathogens from Food and Animals -- Guelph Laboratory (Health Canada)
• Système de surveillance épidémiologique sur les maladies à déclarations obligatoires (MADO) (Epidemiological Surveillance System for Mandatory Reportable Diseases, Québec )
• West Nile Virus Database (Health Canada)

Occupational Health and Safety

• Asbestos Workers Registry (Ontario)
• Banque de données commune (BDC) (CSST, Québec )
• Canadian Hospitals Injury Research and Prevention Program (CHIRPP)
• Central Information System (CIS) (Workplace Safety & Health Inspections, Newfoundland)
• Compensation Assessment and Accident Prevention System (CAAPS) (Northwest Territories)
• Equipment Registration Database (Workplace Safety & Health Inspections, Newfoundland; radiation equipment)
• Injury Surveillance [including Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP)] (Health Canada)
• Merged Information System (MIS) (Ontario)
• National Dose Registry (NDS) (Health Canada)
• Links Database of OHS Division Activities (Saskatchewan)
• Mine Medical X-Ray Database (Yukon)
• National Health Care Worker Influenza and Hepatitis B Vaccine Coverage Survey (Health Canada)
• Occupational Exposure Database Management (OEDM) (Ontario)
• Client-Generated Activities Database (Workplace Safety & Health Inspections, Newfoundland)
• Oracle Research Database of WCB Claims (Oracle/WCB) (Saskatchewan)
• Prevention Services Information System (PSIS) (WCB of the Northwest Territories & Nunavut)
• Radiation Exposure Report Database (Workplace Safety & Health Inspections, Newfoundland)
• Surveillance Médico-Environnementale de la santé des travailleurs (SMEST) (Medico-Environmental Surveillance of Workers' Health, Québec)
• Work Injuries and Diseases Database (NWISP) (Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada)

Pesticides

• Comprehensive Record & Information System for Pesticides (CRISP) (British Columbia)
• Pesticide Products Information System (PEPSIS) (Ontario)

Poisonings

• Intoxications (Poisonings Database, Québec)
• Product Toxicity Data Network (ProdTox) (Health Canada)
• Toxin (Toxin Database, Québec)

Product Safety

• Product Safety Information System (PSIS) (Health Canada)

Respiratory Health

• Chronic Respiratory Surveillance System (Health Canada)
• National Population Health Survey (NPHS) Asthma Supplement 1996/97 (Health Canada)
• Physician Asthma Management Survey (PAMS) (Health Canada)
• Student Lung Health Survey (SLHS) 1995-96 (Health Canada)

Soil Contaminants

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

Water Quality

• Drinking Water Information Management System (DWIMS) (Ontario)
• Drinking Water Quality Database (Nunavut)
• Drinking Water Web System (DWWS) (Ontario)
• Environmental Data Store (EDS) (Ontario)
• Environment Integrated System (EnvI) (New Brunswick)
• Municipal Information Management System (MIMS) (Newfoundland)
• Municipal Wastewater Database (New Brunswick)
• Sample Results Data Store (SRDS) (Ontario)
• Saskatchewan Environment's Environmental Management System (SEEMS)
• Système informatisé Eau-Potable (LCH) (Drinking Water Information System, Québec)
• Water Quality Database (Newfoundland)
• Watertrax (British Columbia)

General Environment

• Environmental Monitoring Inventory Database (EMI) (Environment Canada)
• Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) (British Columbia)
• Hedgehog Environmental Reporting System (HERS) (Health Canada)
• Hedgehog Environmental Systems (Yukon)
• Lotus Notes R5 Database (environmental inspections, British Columbia)

Other

• Canadian Community Health Survey CCHS (Statistics Canada)
• Canadian Heart and Stroke Surveillance System (CHSSS) (Health Canada)
• Client File Database (Manitoba Environment Act)
• Climatologie (Climatology Database, Québec)
• CodeSTAT Database (Nova Scotia)
• Drugs and Controlled Substances Database (Health Canada)
• Economic Burden of Illness in Canada (Health Canada)
• Emergency Health Services of Nova Scotia (EHSNS) Quality Assurance Database
• Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) (Health Canada)
• Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Database (Health Canada)
• Hospital Morbidity Database (Health Canada)
• Inventory of Canadian Cardiovascular Disease Databases (ICCDD) (Health Canada)
• Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS) (Ontario)
• Referentiel Territorial (M34) (Territorial Referential Database, Québec)
• Spatial Data Warehouse (SDW) (Health Canada)