Risk assessment

Risk Assessment: A qualitative or quantitative evaluation of the environmental and/or health risk resulting from exposure to a chemical or physical agent (pollutant); ...

Relative Risk Assessment
Estimating the risks associated with different stressors or management actions.
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The glossary is compiled primarily for those scientists and others who now find themselves working in toxicology or requiring a knowledge of the subject, especially for hazard and risk assessment.

risk assessment - methods used to quantify risks to human health and the environment.
run-off - precipitation that the ground does not absorb and that ultimately reaches rivers, lakes or oceans.

Risk assessment: A process which estimates the likelihood that exposed people may have health effects.

Risk Assessment: 1. The use of factual information to define the nature and impact of an adverse effect on individuals or populations who have been exposed to hazardous materials and situations. 2.

Risk assessment
Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the risk posed to human health and/or the environment by the actual or potential presence and/or use of specific pollutants.(1) ...

Risk assessment
A risk assessment looks at the chemicals detected at a site, the frequency and concentration of detected chemicals, the toxicity of the chemicals and how people can be exposed, and for how long.

Risk Assessment is the process of estimating the risk to health or environment of a product or work process by determining the possible extent of damage and the likelihood of that damage occurring.

Risk Assessment: An evaluation of risk which estimates the relationship between exposure to a harmful substance and the likelihood that harm will result from that exposure.

Health Risk Assessment - a document that identifies the risks and quantities of possible adverse health effects that may result from exposure to emissions of toxic air contaminants.

Risk Assessment
With respect to Radiation Protection , risk assessment is essentially about assessing risk of radiation exposure in order to mitigate that exposure, ...

Risk Assessment
A scientific process that estimates the type and magnitude of risk to human health posed by exposure to chemical substances.
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A risk assessment performed with few data and many assumptions to identify exposures that should be evaluated more carefully for potential risk.
Screening
Use of screens to remove coarse floating and suspended solids from sewage.

Risk Assessment
Careful consideration by competent persons of hazards associated with a task.

Baseline Risk Assessment
An analysis of the potential adverse health effects (current or future) caused by contaminant releases from a site in the absence of any actions to control or mitigate these releases.

Ecological Risk Assessment: The application of a formal framework, analytical process, ...

Screening Risk Assessment: A risk assessment performed with few data and many assumptions to identify exposures that should be evaluated more carefully for potential risk.

The information may come from site investigations (environmental sampling and studies), exposure assessments, risk assessments, biological monitoring or health effects studies.

Ecodesign Ecological Anthropology Ecological Debt Ecological Deficit/Reserve Ecological Economics Ecological Footprint Ecological Impact Ecological Indicator Ecological Overshoot Ecological Risk Assessment ...

The second of four steps in risk assessment, consisting of the analysis of the relationship between the total amount of an agent absorbed by a group of organisms and the changes developed in the group in reaction to the agent, ...

Assessment Endpoint- In ecological risk assessment, an explicit expression of the environmental value to be protected; includes both an ecological entity and specific attributed thereof. entity (e.g.

hazard evaluation A component of risk assessment that involves gathering and evaluating data on the types of health injury or disease (e.g., cancer) that may be produced by a chemical and on the conditions of exposure under which injury or ...

Biomonitoring-a direct measure of human exposure to substances. Biomonitoring involves measuring actual levels of exposure within the body which can help to make risk assessments far more accurate. (Mackinac Center for Public Policy) ...

report = comparing the levels of risk and impact found during the analysis process with previously established risk criteria, producing a "measurement" or "level" of risk and deciding on an appropriate "response". The output of a risk assessment is ...

See also: Risk, Environment, Environmental, Water, Waste