254.21 Asbestos management.
254.22 Indoor air quality.
254.30 Enforcement; penalties.
SUBCHAPTER III
RADIATION PROTECTION
254.335 Agreements with the U.S. nuclear regulatory commission transition.
254.34 Powers and duties.
254.345 Assessment of Fee.
254.35 Registration of ionizing radiation installations.
254.365 Licensing of radioactive material.
254.38 Emergency authority.
254.41 Radiation monitoring of nuclear power plants.
SUBCHAPTER IV
RECREATIONAL SANITATION
254.47 Recreational permits and fees.
SUBCHAPTER V
ANIMAL-BORNE AND VECTOR-BORNE
DISEASE CONTROL
254.51 Powers and duties.
254.52 Lyme disease; treatment, information and research.
SUBCHAPTER VI
HUMAN HEALTH HAZARDS
254.58 Powers of villages, cities and towns.
254.59 Human health hazards.
254.593 Authority of the department and local health departments.
254.595 Property violating codes or health orders.
SUBCHAPTER VII
LODGING AND FOOD PROTECTION
254.62 Coordination; certification.
254.66 Average annual surveys.
254.67 Vending machine commissary outside the state.
254.69 Agent status for local health departments.
254.71 Certificate of food protection practices.
254.72 Health and safety; standard.
254.74 Powers of the department and local health departments.
254.76 Causing fires by tobacco smoking.
254.78 Authority of department of commerce.
254.80 Hotelkeeper's liability.
254.81 Hotelkeeper's liability for baggage; limitation.
254.82 Liability of hotelkeeper for loss of property by fire or theft; owner's risk.
254.83 Hotel rates posted; rate charges; special rates.
254.86 Suspension or revocation of permit.
SUBCHAPTER VIII
DAIRY OPERATIONS
254.89 Certification of Grade A dairy operations.
SUBCHAPTER IX
SALE OR GIFT OF CIGARETTES OR
TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO MINORS
254.92 Purchase or possession of cigarettes or tobacco products by person under 18 prohibited.
Ch. 254 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See definitions in s.
250.01.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
254.01
254.01
Definitions. In this chapter:
254.01(1)
(1) "Environmental health" means the assessment, management, control and prevention of environmental factors that may adversely affect the health, comfort, safety or well-being of individuals.
254.01(2)
(2) "Human health hazard" means a substance, activity or condition that is known to have the potential to cause acute or chronic illness or death if exposure to the substance, activity or condition is not abated.
254.01 History
History: 1993 a. 27.
254.015
254.015
Departmental power; designation. The department may designate a local health department to carry out a function of the department under this chapter.
254.015 History
History: 1993 a. 27.
254.02
254.02
Health risk assessments. 254.02(1)(a)
(a) "Adverse health effect" means a condition that results in human morbidity, mortality, impaired reproductive function or toxicity or teratogenic, carcinogenic or mutagenic effects.
254.02(1)(b)
(b) "Health risk assessment" means the determination of the relationship between the magnitude of exposure to environmental hazards and the probability of occurrence of adverse health effects.
254.02(2)
(2) The department is the lead state agency for health risk assessment.
254.02(3)(a)(a) The department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection, the department of corrections, the department of commerce, and the department of natural resources shall enter into memoranda of understanding with the department to establish protocols for the department to review proposed rules of those state agencies relating to air and water quality, occupational health and safety, institutional sanitation, toxic substances, indoor air quality, food protection or waste handling and disposal.
254.02(3)(b)
(b) The department shall review proposed rules in the areas under
par. (a) and make recommendations to the appropriate state agency if public health would be adversely impacted or if prevention of human health hazards or disease is not adequately addressed by the proposed rules. The department shall make recommendations for enforcement standards to address public health concerns of the proposed rules.