Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An environmental health event is an event involving human exposure to a substance or other thing that is known to have, or is reasonably suspected of having, an adverse effect on human health.
(2) Exposure may happen in connection with—
(a) a single identifiable event; or
Example of a single identifiable event—
an outbreak in a hospital of a new strain of a previously controlled bacterial infection
(b) a situation that happens over a period of time.
Example of a situation that happens over a period of time—
the exposure to industrial fumes, over a period of years, of persons in a populated area