Of mice men and models: future research for improving risk assessment methods, August 16-18, 2000, Aspen, Colorado.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Risk assessment has become an essential tool for developing occupational and environmental health and safety standards and other policies to protect workers and the public from hazardous exposures. Risk Assessment is a relatively new discipline and the currently available data and methods are often inadequate and/or controversial. The lack of consensus on what are appropriate methods for risk assessment has frequently led to acrimonious debates, which have been an impediment to the development of appropriate and expedient responses to environmental and occupational hazards. The source of the controversies are generally related to either the methods used for developing the toxicologic (e.g.. mice) or epidemiologic (e.g.. men) databases or to the methods used to develop mathematical predictions (e.g.. models) from these databases. Thus research is needed to develop methods that will enhance the relevance of toxicologic and epidemiologic data, and the credibility of models of the results from these studies for predicting the consequences from exposures to occupational and environmental hazards. The resulting improvements in the methodology used for risk assessments should lead to the greater acceptance of the results from risk assessments. and ultimately to improvements in the development of standards and policies designed to protect workers and the public from exposure to hazardous substances.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Animal-studies Dose-response Employee-exposure Epidemiology Exposure-limits Health-standards Mathematical-models Occupational-exposure Occupational-health Quantitative-analysis Regulations Risk-analysis Risk-factors Toxic-dose Toxicology

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025240
• Citation:
  NIOSH 2000 Aug; :1-10
• Contact Point Address:
  Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, NIOSH C15, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181233/cdc_181233_DS1.pdf
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