Clandestine laboratory and methamphetamine contamination toolkit

The main part of this project is complete with a PDF version of the toolkit now available:
Clandestine Lab and Methamphetamine toolkit (PDF 1.9 MB).

A web version of the toolkit is being developed by LGA and will be linked from this page.

Outcomes

This project has developed a toolkit to help councils respond to illicit drug labs and methamphetamine contamination.

Environmental Health Officers in councils work with police to prevent entry to properties notified to be involved in the production of illicit drugs. The toolkit helps Environmental Health Officers respond to, and remediate, properties found to be clandestine drug labs.

The toolkit offers background information and context to the issues and also confounding factors that should be taken into consideration when managing or living within a contaminated property.

Benefits of the toolkit

This toolkit is based on knowledge from researchers and local, state, federal and international governments.

Environmental Health Officers and community members can gain an understanding of the problem with contaminated properties without expending considerable time and resources to research the information themselves.

Individuals can also be reassured that since it is presented on a government website, the information is from a reputable source. This information can be easily amended if guidelines, policies or regulation changes with time.