UV Index
The amount of UV radiation reaching the earth depends on atmospheric conditions such as ozone amounts, pollution, time of day, season, latitude, cloud density and even cloud location.
QUT provides the public with up-to-the-minute readings on UV levels in Brisbane.
Sun Safety Queensland
This website is a non for profit site and is suitable for the young and old to learn about sun safety. It has been produced to help illustrate by way of diagrams and UV charts just how intense our sun is in Queensland. We have a realtime LIVE link to UV readings from the QUT in Brisbane to help you better timetable outdoor activities and to understand how to protect yourself from the intensity of the ultraviolet rays by adopting all the appropriate sunsafe advice such as seeking shade, wearing sunprotective clothing, a broadbrimmed hat, wrap around sunglasses and using broadspectrum 30+ SPF sunscreen. The brochure on Sunsafety in the Sunshine State can also be downloaded free of charge for personal reference. There is also an updated section on vitamin D the sunshine vitamin which is important to be maintained by diet or supplementation if practising sunprotection properly.
Get to know your skin and look out for any changing spots or new growing lesions which you should show your doctor promptly and make time to have your skin checked at least once a year.
Let’s get serious about preventing skin cancer. Become sunaware.
Regards,
Dr Margaret Oziemski, Dermatologist