Main Title |
Risk assessment and management : framework for decision making / |
CORP Author |
United States. Environmental Protection Agency.; Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Office of the Administrator. |
Publisher |
The Agency, |
Year Published |
1984 |
Report Number |
EPA/600-9-85-002 |
Stock Number |
PB85-170157 |
OCLC Number |
11571657 |
Subjects |
Health risk assessment--United States ;
Hazardous substances--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Environmental policy--United States ;
Risk management--United States
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Additional Subjects |
Health risk assessment--United States ;
Hazardous substances--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Environmental policy--United States ;
Risk ;
Chemical compounds ;
Environmental surveys ;
Hazardous materials ;
Management planning ;
Assessments ;
Regulations ;
Public health ;
Dosage ;
Toxicology ;
Guidelines ;
Cost analysis ;
Toxic substances ;
Ecosystems
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Internet Access |
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Local Library Info |
Library |
Local Subject |
Local Note |
EKB |
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Library copy has handwritten note: AIC Shelf. |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EHAM |
RA427.3.R57 1984x |
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Region 1 Library/Boston,MA |
04/29/2016 |
EJDD |
EPA 600/9-85-002 |
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Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD |
12/20/2002 |
EJED |
EPA 600/9-85-002 |
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OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC |
01/01/1988 |
EKBD |
EPA-Z/1235 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
09/02/2014 |
ELBD ARCHIVE |
EPA 600-9-85-002 |
Received from HQ |
AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
10/04/2023 |
DISPERSAL |
ERAD |
EPA 600/9-85-002 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
03/04/2013 |
ESAD |
EPA 600-9-85-002 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
03/23/2010 |
NTIS |
PB85-170157 |
Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. |
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07/26/2022 |
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Collation |
35 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Abstract |
The risk assessment and risk management initiatives described in this report are tools which will help make possible more efficient protection of the environment and human health. The authors expect to gain the following specific management advantages: Risk assessment and risk management help set priorities. There are thousands of chemicals in commerce and an unknown number of contaminants and unintended by-products. Some of these could be important as pollutants, and as such, are proper targets for regulation if they pose significant risks to health or the environment. The authors do not have the budget, nor will we ever have the time, to test each chemical exhaustively. Screening by estimates of potential risk reduction is an attractive basis for comparing regulatory priorities. They can use risk analytic methods to help sort problems in terms of the likelihood that the Agency can do something constructive and effective to improve public health and the environment. Risk management provides a context for balanced analysis and decision-making. Toxic chemicals are legitimately frightening: they can and do cause cancer and other diseases. The trouble is that we are exposed to a complex, highly dilute mixture of chemicals, taken in through air, water, and food. When disease strikes, cause and effect are seldom clearly linked. The Agency can contribute to rational discussion by exposing the scientific basis for the risk, including the confidence they have in the estimate; placing the risk reduction expected from the regulation in context with other risks and other opportunities for risk reduction; and explaining the values on which the balancing judgments have been made. Risk assessment and management produce more efficient and consistent risk reduction policies. EPA's patchwork of authorities for controlling pollution needs to be woven together more coherently, beginning at the analytical level and continuing through to the regulatory decision. Some important
differences - defined by statute - in the ways the laws manage risk will always remain, but a risk management approach can use their remaining administrative flexibility to make more efficient use of the Agency's and society's resources to reduce risk and to make the Agency's actions more consistent. |
Notes |
Cover title. "December 1984." "EPA/600-9-85-002." |
Place Published |
Washington, D.C. |
Access Notes |
Also available on the Internet. |
Corporate Au Added Ent |
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. |
PUB Date Free Form |
1984 |
NTIS Prices |
PC A03/MF A01 |
BIB Level |
m |
Document Type |
BC |
Medium |
unmediated |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
Merged OCLC records |
70374666; 1225751992 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20160419144157 |
Language |
eng |
SUDOCS Number |
EP 1.2:R 49/2 |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
MERGE |
OCLC Rec Leader |
01460cam 2200397Ia 45020 |