Risk assessment's new era - part 4: roadmap for integrating risk and decision making into industrial hygiene

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• Personal Author:
  Boelter FW ; Dotson, G. Scott ; Heckman B ; Maier A ; Ripple S ; Rossner A ; Williams PRD
• Description:
  Assessing risk in the aggregate, cumulatively, and comparatively has entered a new era in which innovative technologies and methods are allowing health science professionals to explore and solve ever more complex problems. 1,2,3 Increasingly, risk assessments either support or are mandated by regulatory, management, business, and public policy decision making. They also support technical and lay educational efforts and behavior-based safety programs. Since the inception of our profession, industrial hygienists have been front and center in characterizing hazards and assessing exposures, which predates the four-step risk assessment paradigm articulated by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in its 1983 "Red Book": hazard assessment, exposure assessment, dose-response assessment, and risk characterization. Many industrial hygienists have also participated in more recent initiatives, such as resource allocation, enterprise risk management, sustainability, and cost-benefIt analysis. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Analytical-processes Biological-effects Decision-making Environmental-technology Exposure-assessment Health-hazards Industrial-hygiene Industrial-hygiene-programs Industrial-hygienists Risk-analysis Work-environment

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• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Illinois ; Michigan ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  30-32
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043658
• Citation:
  Synergist 2012 Aug; 23(8):30-32
• Contact Point Address:
  Fred W. Boeller, CIH, PE, BCEE, Environ Internationa, Chicago, IL
• Email:
  fboeller@environcorp.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:127aabc91e3377c22c8a0a4c5d7e6111f9d0cdf750a9bb2d21471224b71b7e8ea68c62883521a484bf4f4d555d9e313e67302fc993607cb0a5d54d286b9ae9a0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195494/cdc_195494_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.22 MB ]