New Risks: Issues and Management

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Risk Management for Controlling Pollution Liability in a Corporate Environment....Pages 1-9
Corporate Management of Liability Risk....Pages 11-13
The Independent Auditors’ Assessment and Conveyance of Risk (Preliminary Results)....Pages 15-20
Strict Liability and Insurance Under Loss Misestimation....Pages 21-21
Comparison of EPA, ILO, and World Bank Guidelines for Risk Identification Assessment, and Management of Chemical Emergencies....Pages 23-31
Decision Analysis in Environmental Risk Management: Applications to Acid Deposition and Air Toxics....Pages 33-43
Causality in Toxicologic Risk Assessment and Risk Management....Pages 45-53
Environmentally Induced Cancer: A Model for Estimating Excess Cancer Risks Based on a Two-Stage Model of Carcinogenesis....Pages 55-63
Is the One-Hit Model of Carcinogenesis Conservative? Evidence from the National Toxicology Program’s Bioassay Databasea....Pages 65-76
Carcinogenicity Versus Acute Toxicity: Is There a Relationship?....Pages 77-85
Incorporating More Science Into Cancer Dose-Response Extrapolations....Pages 87-94
Parameters Involved in Risk Assessment for Environmental Release of Biotechnology Products....Pages 95-101
Do Genetically Engineered Microorganisms Pose Risks to Ecosystems?....Pages 103-110
Control of Microbial Pathogens in Poultry by Irradiation: Issues Related to Risks and Benefits....Pages 111-118
Exposure Assessment for Sterilized Medical Devices: Implications for Microbiological Risk Analysis....Pages 119-128
Risks in New Technologies — Controlling Toxic and Hazardous Gas Releases During Photovoltaic Cell Manufacture....Pages 129-134
Application of Systems Analysis Techniques to Vulnerability Studies of Complex Installations....Pages 135-142
Seismic Hazard in the Eastern United States: Bounding the Uncertainty....Pages 143-151
Thinking the Unthinkable: Preparing for Global Disaster....Pages 153-158
Risk Aversion in Agricultural Policy Analysis: A Closer Look at Meaning, Modeling, and Measurement....Pages 159-166
Evaluating Risks to Agricultural Production from Acid Deposition....Pages 167-172
Economic Principles of Risk Management in Production....Pages 173-184
Assessing Risk from Dermal Exposure at Hazardous Waste Sites....Pages 185-190
Bioaccumulation of TCDD in Lake Ontario Fish: Laboratory and Field Studies in Support of Hazardous Waste Landfill Risk Assessments....Pages 191-201
Risk Assessment of Indoor Air Pollution by Termiticides....Pages 203-208
Fuzzy Risk Analysis: Theory and Application....Pages 209-219
Assessment of the Acceptability of the Proposals for a Fixed Link Across the English Channel....Pages 221-228
Risk Assessment and Management: A Regional Approach....Pages 229-240
Scientific and Technological Inputs to Nonroutine Decision Making by Three Groups: Scientists Government Officials, Corporate Managers....Pages 241-250
Confidence in Technologies: Interaction Between Publics and Industries....Pages 251-257
Ritualism in Communicating Risk Information....Pages 259-267
Summary of Panel Discussion on “The Role of Private and Public Sector Insurance and Compensation for Environmental Pollution”....Pages 269-275
Risk Management Through Market Incentives: Liability and Insurance....Pages 277-282
A Comparison of the Human Exposure Model and the Air Emissions Risk Assessment Model....Pages 283-290
Comparisons Between Desktop Dispersion Calculations and Computerized Air Dispersion Model Results When Results Are To Be Used in a Risk Assessment....Pages 291-299
Livermore Risk Analysis Methodology: A Structured Decision Analytic Tool for Information Systems Risk Management....Pages 301-314
LAVA: A Conceptual Framework for Automated Risk Analysis....Pages 315-330
A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Program for Analyzing Security Risks....Pages 331-340
A General Purpose Computer Shell for Risk Analysis....Pages 341-347
A Preliminary Model of Radon Exposure....Pages 349-358
Power-Frequency Fields: Risk Without Measure....Pages 359-370
Computer Security Risk Analysis....Pages 371-377
Diffuse Risks from Adversarial Sources: An Emerging Field of Risk Analysis....Pages 379-388
Uncertainty and Variability in Environmental Risk Assessment: A Framework for Analysis....Pages 389-401
An Experiment in Combining Estimates of Uncertainty....Pages 403-412
Linear-Nonparametric Low-Dose Disease Risk Estimation....Pages 413-421
Methods Used in Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis....Pages 423-430
Can We Bring Quality of Management into PRAs?....Pages 431-440
Studies with a New Risk Reduction Model....Pages 441-450
Hits on MRS....Pages 451-458
A Psychological Perspective on Accident Evolutions and How to Arrest Them in Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 459-468
Chernobyl Accident — Emergency Monitoring and Protection Measures in Poland....Pages 469-476
The Accident at Chernobyl: A Report on Risk Management at a Local Hot Spot in West Germany....Pages 477-496
The Comparative Ranking of Risks....Pages 497-508
Getting to Maybe: Implied Principles of Trust and Consent in Two Massachusetts Acts....Pages 509-514
Coping with Scientific and Technological Uncertainty: Federal Policy Analysis for Nonroutine Decisions....Pages 515-528
Signal Detection and Perceived Risks: Homeowner Responses to Radon Risk Information....Pages 529-540
Role of Publicity in Three Risk Management Decisions: Ethylene Dibromide as a Pesticide, Dioxin in Times Beach, and Screening Mammography....Pages 541-552
An Extension of the Coverage-Attitude Hypothesis: Coverage of Technological and Environmental Hazards in Dutch Newspapers and Readers’ Reactions....Pages 553-561
Contrasting Risk Communication Tasks and Objectives for Superfund Sites, Underground Storage Tanks, and Biotechnology Field Tests....Pages 563-571
Communicating Risk: Factors Affecting Community Acceptance of Information....Pages 573-578
AIDS: Risks and Public Policies....Pages 579-583
The Healthy Worker Effect: The Need to Reevaluate a Broad Spectrum of Occupational Risks....Pages 585-597
Cultural Values Affecting Risk Perception: Individualism and the Perception of Toxicological Risks....Pages 599-607
Are Twenty-Fold Differences in “Lifesaving” Costs Justified?: A Psychometric Study of the Relative Value Placed on Preventing Deaths from Programs Addressing Different Hazards....Pages 609-619
The Nature of PRA for the Chemical Industry....Pages 621-632
Risk Uncertainties in Public Sector Safety Decisions: Assessment Methods and Management Implications....Pages 633-642
Assessment of Risks from Acute Hazards at Monsanto....Pages 643-650
Differences Between Industries in the Definition of Acceptable Risk....Pages 651-658
Risk Education and Hazard Management in the Workplace: The Role of Workers’ and Executives’ Social Relations....Pages 659-665
Consumer Response to Food Risk Information: Demographic Differences....Pages 667-678
Estimating Fatality Reductions from Increased Safety Belt Use....Pages 679-680
Are Special Trains Really Safer?....Pages 681-692
Comparison of Risks from Ocean-Based and Land-Based Incineration of Hazardous Wastes....Pages 693-700
Carcinogenesis Risk Assessment of Two-Carbon Alkylating Agents Using Dynamic Simulation of Absorption and Metabolism....Pages 701-709
Back Matter....Pages 711-716