Category: Assessment And Management Of Health And Environmental Risks

Measures of ongoing exposure to health risks call for determination of concentration. In the Section 5.1.3.1, Example 5.3 shows how to determine bioconcentration, and Example 5.4 explains the use of slope factors, often used in quantifying risks of cancer. Partition Coefficient and Bioconcentration Factor While extensive research continues to refine existing methods and to develop new markers of exposure and…

Risks to human health may be assessed on the basis of information collected from environmental monitoring; alternatively, the data may be incorporated into models of human activity and exposure, in the workplace and elsewhere, to permit analysts to draw conclusions on the likelihood of adverse effects. In both cases, risk assessment is an essential tool…

The concept of risk, the possibility of loss or injury, is familiar in every human endeavor. Both chemical engineers and environmental engineers routinely consider the risks of adverse health and environmental impacts from exposures to industrial by‐products released to air, water, and land. Risk assessment, thus, is an organized process for describing and estimating the…