Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Science and Sociology: The Transition to a Post-Conservative Risk Assessment Era....Pages 1-11
The Use of Focus Groups in Risk Communication....Pages 13-24
Development of Cleanup Criteria for the Port Hope Remedial Program....Pages 25-41
Combining Physiology, Carcinogenic Mechanism, and Interindividual Variation in Cancer Dose-Response Extrapolations....Pages 43-58
On Basing Extrapolation of Risk for a Chemical Carcinogen on Total Dose (Constant Dose Rate × Continuous Exposure Duration): Implications and an Extension....Pages 59-66
The Approach to Risk Analysis in Three Industries: Nuclear Power, Space Systems, and Chemical Process....Pages 67-74
An Epidemiologic Approach to Dealing With Multimedia Exposure to Multiple Related Chemicals....Pages 75-81
Incorporating Risk Into the Development of Soil Cleanup Guidelines for Trace Organic Compounds....Pages 83-95
Quantifying and Comparing the Benefits of Risk Reduction Programs to Prioritize Expenditures....Pages 97-109
Assessment of Risk from Short-Term Exposures....Pages 111-118
Societal Risk from a Thermodynamic Perspective....Pages 119-134
Risk in Defense Policy Decisions....Pages 135-149
The Strategic Defense Initiative and Nuclear Proliferation from a Risk Analysis Perspective....Pages 151-158
The Hazardous Air Pollutant Prioritization System....Pages 159-164
Air Emission Risk Assessment Sensitivity Analysis for a Coal-Fired Power Plant....Pages 165-174
A Systematic Approach for Environmental Risk Assessment....Pages 175-181
The Use of Risk Index Systems to Evaluate Risk....Pages 183-193
Probabilistic Seismic Risk to Non-Nuclear Facilities....Pages 195-203
Catastrophic Damage from Dam-Break Floods....Pages 205-212
Risk Reduction Strategies for Setting Remedial Priorities: Hazardous Waste....Pages 213-218
Educating the Public About Toxicological Risk....Pages 219-222
Upper-Bound Estimates of Carcinogenic Risk: More Policy Than Science....Pages 223-230
Risk Communication: The Need for Incentives....Pages 231-239
An International Approach to Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Management for a Diversified Corporation....Pages 241-249
Risk Perception of Technologies: The Perspective of Similar Groups in Portugal and the United States....Pages 251-258
Policy Lessons from Risk Communications Practice....Pages 259-262
History of the Impurities Policy: Risk Assessment for Food and Color Additives....Pages 263-270
Establishing a Threshold of Regulation....Pages 271-278
The Use of Pharmacokinetics in Food Safety Evaluation....Pages 279-285
Consideration of Cell Proliferation and Adduct Formation as Parameters Affecting Risk Outcome....Pages 287-295
Global Risk Assessment....Pages 297-306
Cost Benefit and Environmental Risk Aspects in the Context of European Air Pollution Control Strategies....Pages 307-315
Health Effects of Occupational Exposures of Welders: Multicenter Study Using a Uniform Core Protocol....Pages 317-320
Comparative Risk Assessment of Transportation of Hazardous Materials in Urban Areas....Pages 321-332
Drinking-Age Laws: An Evaluation Synthesis of Their Impact on Highway Safety....Pages 333-340
Fatality Incidence Stratified by Driver Behavior: An Exploratory Analysis with FARS Data....Pages 341-351
An Assessment of the Risks of Stratospheric Modification....Pages 353-356
Quality Assurance in Risk Models for Regulatory Decision Making....Pages 357-370
Risk Assessment Issues in Implementing Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Legislation....Pages 371-378
System Unavailability Monitoring Study....Pages 379-385
The Influence of the Climate of Risk Perception on the Process of Risk Management: Quantification, Evaluation Decision Making....Pages 387-390
The Nation-State in Societal Evaluation of Risk: Ambiguity Meets Reality....Pages 391-398
Setting Risk Priorities in Environmental Policy: The Role of Women....Pages 399-409
Comparison of Tumor Incidence for Short-Term and Lifetime Exposure....Pages 411-415
Benzene and Leukemia: What Are the Risks and What Do the Data Reveal?....Pages 417-430
Analysis of Individual Risk Belief Structures....Pages 431-441
Sources of Common Cause Failures in Decision Making Involved in Man-Made Catastrophes....Pages 443-454
Game Strategic Behavior Under Conditions of Risk and Uncertainty....Pages 455-461
Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment....Pages 463-472
Managing Uncertain Risks Through “Intelligent” Classification: A Combined Artificial Intelligence/Decision-Analytic Approach....Pages 473-482
Managing Fire Safety Problems Through Decision Analysis to Evaluate Fire Safety Hazards....Pages 483-494
Can Risk Assessment and Risk Prioritization Be Extricated from Risk Management?....Pages 495-500
Application of Risk Assessment Principles in Environmental Epidemiology....Pages 501-507
A Comparison of the Remedial Priorities Determined Using More Likely Case and Worst Case Risk Estimates....Pages 509-515
Cancer Incidence Among Welders Due to Combined Exposures to ELF and Welding Fumes: A Study in Data Pooling....Pages 517-527
Role of Risk Assessment in New Hampshire State Government....Pages 529-534
A Method for Estimation of Fish Contamination from Dioxins and Furans Emitted by Resource Recovery Facilities....Pages 535-538
The Importance of the Hazard Identification Phase of Health Risk Assessments: Illustrated with Antimony Emissions from Waste Incineration Facilities....Pages 539-543
The Utility of a National Food Survey in Assessing Dietary Risk and Exposure....Pages 545-549
The Carcinogenic Risk of Some Organic Vapors Indoors: A Theoretical Survey....Pages 551-561
Risk Assessment and National Standards: Philosophical Problems Arising from the Normalization of Risk....Pages 563-571
The Use of Pharmacokinetic Models in the Determination of Risks for Regulatory Purposes....Pages 573-583
Ethylene Oxide Residues on Sterilized Medical Devices....Pages 585-592
Tetrachloroethylene Metabolism Resulting from Domestic Respiratory Exposure: Pharmacokinetic Considerations Relevant to Risk Assessment....Pages 593-608
The Role of Speciation and Pharmacokinetics in Risk Assessment....Pages 609-615
Assessing Risks of Cholinesterase-Inhibiting Pesticides....Pages 617-623
Nuclear Power Safety Goals in Light of the Chernobyl Accident....Pages 625-632
PRA-Based Inspection for Oconee Unit 3....Pages 633-641
Environmental Radiation Standards and Risk Limitation....Pages 643-650
The Anatomy of Safety Evaluations....Pages 651-656
The Impact of Non-Drinking Water Exposures on Drinking Water Standards: A Problem of Acceptable Levels of Risk....Pages 657-663
Estimating Exposures and Health Risks for Alternative Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards....Pages 665-674
The Definition of Risk and Associated Terminology for Risk Analysis....Pages 675-680
Back Matter....Pages 681-686