Challenges for Risk Assessors

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• Personal Author:
  Schulte P
• Description:
  At the early part of the 21st century, occupational safety and health risk assessors face a variety of challenges. In addition to technical issues, the challenges for risk assessors include: assessment of risks of mixtures/and synergistic effects; incorporation of biological information into risk assessments; development of different ways of presenting risk information to better inform policy makers and the public; better expressions of uncertainty and assumptions; and harmonization of assessments across agencies and countries. All of these challenges will occur against a background of unfolding understanding of human and other genomes. Risk assessors will be motivated and pressured to use genomic and related technologies, but ethical, social, and technical issues need to be addressed before widespread use. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Genetics Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Risk Assessment Genetic-factors Genomics Mathematical-models Mechanisms Models Occupational-health Risk-analysis Risk-factors Sociological-factors Standards Statistical-analysis Synergism Uncertainty

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• ISSN:
  1080-7039
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  439-445
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023242
• Citation:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess 2003 Feb; 9(1):439-445
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195776/cdc_195776_DS1.pdf
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