A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing, and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports

✍ Scribed by Sally L. Benjamin, David A. Belluck

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 681
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report. The authors believe that successful management of the risk assessment team is a key factor is quality reports. Leadership first clarifies the roles of each participant and the unique technical factors of their respective disciplines. Teamwork is achieved through an emphasis on common language and procedures. Belluck and Benjamin explore a variety of techniques for creating accurate and useful reports. An example is Proactive Risk Assessment, which breaks a project into discrete parts to be delivered on an interim basis. This method, based on iterative review, drastically increases the chance of detecting errors while they can still be corrected. The authors emphasize rigorous standards by which reports are audited, evaluated and critiqued. The goal is to create reports that are accurate, useful and, adaptable on an industry-wide basis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Contributors......Page 12
Contents......Page 20
1. Introduction......Page 26
2. Human Health Risk Assessment......Page 52
3. Ecological Risk Assessment......Page 102
4. Risk Assessment Project Planning (Phase I)......Page 122
5. Managing Risk Assessment Report Development (Phase II)......Page 196
6. Concluding a Risk Assessment Contract (Phase III and IV)......Page 244
7. Legal Context of Environmental Risk Assessment......Page 256
8. Risk Assessment Contract Formation......Page 268
9. Ecological Risk Assessment Review......Page 280
10. Environmental Chemistry......Page 288
11. Analytical Quality Assurance/Quality Control for Environmental Samples Used in Risk Assessment......Page 300
12. Environmental Sampling Design......Page 324
13. Sampling for Ecological Risk Assessments......Page 342
14. Ecotoxicity Testing in Risk Assessment......Page 348
15. Epidemiology and Health Risk Assessment......Page 362
16. Surface Water Modeling......Page 374
17. Groundwater Modeling in Health Risk Assessment......Page 380
18. Air Toxics Dispersion and Deposition Modeling......Page 392
19. Using Statistics in Health and Environmental Risk Assessments......Page 412
20. Uncertainty Analysis......Page 436
21. Risk Communication......Page 448
22. Clear Communicationin Risk Assessment Writing......Page 462
23. Scientific Library Research for Risk Assessment......Page 470
24. Risk Assessment of Airborne Chemicals......Page 488
25. Radiation Risk Assessment......Page 502
26. Remediation Risk Assessment......Page 520
27. Facility Risk Assessment......Page 528
28. CERCLA and RCRA Risk Assessments......Page 538
29. International Health Risk Assessment Approaches for Pesticides......Page 550
30. Historical Toxicology and Risk Assessment......Page 560
31. Special Topics in Risk Assessment: Models and Uncertainties......Page 574
Appendix......Page 586
Index......Page 660