Risk Assessment and Management

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Black Hats, Economists and Societal Risk Assessment....Pages 1-8
Intraspecies Extrapolation: Efforts at Enhancing Dose-Response Relationships....Pages 9-18
A Retrospective Look at the Carcinogenic Potency of Vinyl Chloride....Pages 19-25
Analysis of Health Effects Caused by Multiple Insults....Pages 27-34
Managing Economic Risks Due to Electrical Equipment Containing PCBs: Analytical Tools to Support Utility Decisions....Pages 35-43
Estimating Risks of Known and Unknown Carcinogens....Pages 45-59
The Cleanup of Chemical Waste Sites — A Rational Approach....Pages 61-69
Identification of Key Risks under Different Measures for a Future Oil Shale Industry....Pages 71-81
Risk Assessment of Deliberate Release of Genetically-Engineered Microorganisms....Pages 83-91
Assessing the Risks Associated with Biotechnology: The Regulatory Problem....Pages 93-98
Methodological Approach to the Study of Risk Policy Decision-Making: The Case of Deliberate Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms....Pages 99-106
How Real is the Risk from Technologically Enhanced Natural Radiation....Pages 107-112
Safety Management of Large Operations....Pages 113-126
The Use of Operating Experience to Reduce Risk....Pages 127-136
A View on Consistency of NRC Risk Policy....Pages 137-140
Application of Integrated Risk Analysis at EPA....Pages 141-146
Development and Application of Risk Analysis in Duke Power....Pages 147-152
The Process Hazards Management Program at Dupont....Pages 153-157
Risk Management Applications to Dam Safety Activities within the Bureau of Reclamation....Pages 159-178
Risk Management of Complex, Technology-Based Systems: Observations on Similarities and Differences....Pages 179-188
Risk-Based Monitoring of Industrial Systems....Pages 189-199
“Living PRA” Concept for Risk Management of Nuclear and Chemical Processing Plants....Pages 201-204
The IDCOR Program—Severe Accident Issues, Individual Plant Examinations and Source Term Developments....Pages 205-217
Trends and Needs in Reactor Safety Improvement....Pages 219-227
A Value-Impact Approach for Regulatory Decision Making: An Application to Nuclear Power....Pages 229-240
Improving Automotive Safety: The Role of Industry, the Government, and the Driver....Pages 241-259
Selfish Safety or Redistributed Risks? Trade-offs among Automobile Occupants’ Accident Fatality Risks....Pages 261-277
Fire Risk Assessment and Management....Pages 279-287
USA Management of Fire Risk....Pages 289-308
Education of the Public about Potential Health and Environmental Effects Associated with Hazardous Substances....Pages 309-316
The Role of Liability Preferences in Societal Technology Choices: Results of a Pilot Study....Pages 317-324
Public Perception of Risk in Developing Technologies: A Case Study of a Business Community in Manhattan....Pages 325-335
Community Risk Perception: A Pilot Study....Pages 337-344
Sources of Correlation of Expert Opinion — A Pilot Study....Pages 345-353
Why Good Risk Analysts have Trouble with Public Communications-A Quantitative Analysis....Pages 355-363
Time Budget Analysis and Risk Management: Estimating the Probabilities of the Event Schedules of American Adults....Pages 365-374
Information Utilization in the Formulation of Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Regulations: A Method of Research for Organizational Learning....Pages 375-381
Public Judgment of an Environmental Health Hazard: Two Studies of the ASARCO Smelter....Pages 383-398
Risk Assessment and Risk Management: A Survey of Recent Models....Pages 399-406
Economic Theory of Compensation Rule Design for Probabilistic Injuries....Pages 407-420
Right to Know and Behavioral Responses to Hazard Warnings....Pages 421-427
Measuring Benefits for Air Quality from Survey Data....Pages 429-437
The Value of Life Saving: Lessons from the Cigarette Market....Pages 439-452
Valuing Food Safety....Pages 453-465
The Cochran-Armitage Test for Trends or Thresholds in Proportions....Pages 467-479
Development of the Non-Dimensional Method of Ranking Risks....Pages 481-490
Developing Risk Estimates for Toxic Air Pollutants through Probabilistic Risk Assessment....Pages 491-498
The Hazard Meter: A Conceptual Heuristic Tool of Risk Assessment....Pages 499-507
Decision Analysis Models for Risks in the Distant Future....Pages 509-518
Toxic Effluents: A Simplified Procedure for Assessing Human Health Risks....Pages 519-528
Dealing with Uncertainty about Risk in Risk Management....Pages 529-536
Dealing with Uncertainty in Risk Regulation....Pages 537-542
Towards Cost-Effective Methods for Reducing Uncertainty in Environmental Health Decision Processes....Pages 543-553
Prioritizing Health Risk Assessments....Pages 555-561
A Discussion of Some of the Problems Encountered in Communicating Risk Assessments to Decision Makers....Pages 563-572
Communicating Information to Risk Managers: The Interactive Phase....Pages 573-580
The Use of Risk Comparison to Aid the Communication and Interpretation of the Risk Analyses for Regulatory Decision Making....Pages 581-607
Regulatory Negotiation: Lessons from Benzene ....Pages 609-617
Towards an Acceptable Criterion of Acceptable Risk....Pages 619-631
Risk Management in the U.S. and Japan: A Comparative Perspective....Pages 633-641
Risk Evaluation of Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites Using Fuzzy Set Analysis....Pages 643-648
On the Evolution of Risk Assessment and Risk Management and the Future Needs....Pages 649-656
Bhopal Disaster and Risk Analysis: The Significance of the Bhopal Disaster to Risk Analysis At Any Other Chemical Plant (Safety Expenditure with Capital Rationing)....Pages 657-664
Enhancing Risk Management by Focusing on the Local Level: An Integrated Approach....Pages 665-676
The Importance of Community Context in Effective Risk Management....Pages 677-685
The Relationship between Risk Management Intervenors and the Community....Pages 687-695
Citizens’ Knowledge, Beliefs and Actions Regarding Chemical Contamination of Drinking Water....Pages 697-702
Incorporating Technical Information and Community Goals into Risk Management Decision Related to Groundwater....Pages 703-708
Policy Consideration in the Selection of National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the Tacoma Smelter....Pages 709-717
Framework for Acid Deposition Decision Making....Pages 719-725
A Comparative Analysis of Air Pollution Standard-Setting and Regulatory Procedures in the United States and West Germany....Pages 727-734
Back Matter....Pages 735-740