Risk Assessment – the Mother of All Uncertainties. Disciplinary Perspectives on Uncertainty in Risk Assessment

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• Personal Author:
  Bailar JC ; Bailer AJ ; Bailar JC ; Bailer AJ
• Description:
  Uncertainty in the detection and evaluation of chemical hazards to health leads to challenges when conducting risk assessments. Some of the uncertainty has to do with data, some with incomplete understanding of processes, and some with the most fundamental ways of viewing the questions. True variability-across space, in time, or among individuals-complicates the search for understanding many important aspects of risk. A few statistical and toxicologic tools are available to assess uncertainty. Three methods of classifying uncertainty are briefly discussed. In addition, our disciplinary background may influence how we view and discuss variability and uncertainty. We rarely know as much as we think we do (and not just in risk assessment). Great uncertainty is likely to remain an important part of risk assessment for some decades to come. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Analytical-methods Analytical-processes Exposure-assessment Risk-analysis Risk-factors Statistical-analysis
• ISBN:
  1573312371
• ISSN:
  0077-8923
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  273-285
• Volume:
  895
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027413
• Citation:
  Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 Dec; 895(1):273-285
• Contact Point Address:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Education and Information Division, Risk Evaluation Branch, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
• Email:
  ajbailar@muohio.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0be43a202c813316c42a53b42a666f8c44972d307257e090f5811cd4020c3cfc4b200f119996109e70e22d81e4d86b5f00c793bee60f2d673d7159a6fa501946
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197567/cdc_197567_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 72.04 KB ]