Risk Assessment and Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Black Hats, Economists and Societal Risk Assessment

   1. Black Hats, Economists and Societal Risk Assessment

      • Marina v. N. Whitman

      Pages 1-8

3. Risk Analysis: Estimating Health Risks

   1. Intraspecies Extrapolation: Efforts at Enhancing Dose-Response Relationships

      • Janice Longstreth

      Pages 9-18

   2. A Retrospective Look at the Carcinogenic Potency of Vinyl Chloride

      • John T. Barr

      Pages 19-25

   3. Analysis of Health Effects Caused by Multiple Insults

      • Fritz A. Seiler

      Pages 27-34

   4. Managing Economic Risks Due to Electrical Equipment Containing PCBs: Analytical Tools to Support Utility Decisions

      • Deborah A. L. Amaral, Dean W. Boyd, David Cohan, Michael S. Hohnson, Donald S. Wilson

      Pages 35-43

   5. Estimating Risks of Known and Unknown Carcinogens

      • Richard Wilson

      Pages 45-59

   6. The Cleanup of Chemical Waste Sites — A Rational Approach

      • Charles A. Staples, Richard A. Kimerle

      Pages 61-69

   7. Identification of Key Risks under Different Measures for a Future Oil Shale Industry

      • Lawrence B. Gratt

      Pages 71-81

   8. Risk Assessment of Deliberate Release of Genetically-Engineered Microorganisms

      • Vlasta Molak, Jerry Stara

      Pages 83-91

   9. Assessing the Risks Associated with Biotechnology: The Regulatory Problem

      • Janis C. Kurtz

      Pages 93-98

   10. Methodological Approach to the Study of Risk Policy Decision-Making: The Case of Deliberate Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms

       • Smita K. Siddhanti

       Pages 99-106

   11. How Real is the Risk from Technologically Enhanced Natural Radiation

       • Alica Bauman, Djurdja Hovat

       Pages 107-112

4. Risk Analysis: Estimating Safety Risks

   1. Safety Management of Large Operations

      • Edwin L. Zebroski

      Pages 113-126

   2. The Use of Operating Experience to Reduce Risk

      • P. Bacher, J. P. Kus, D. Vignon

      Pages 127-136

   3. A View on Consistency of NRC Risk Policy

      • Robert M. Bernero

      Pages 137-140

   4. Application of Integrated Risk Analysis at EPA

      • Daniel Beardsley

      Pages 141-146

   5. Development and Application of Risk Analysis in Duke Power

      • Warren H. Owen

      Pages 147-152

   6. The Process Hazards Management Program at Dupont

      • John G. Page

      Pages 153-157

   7. Risk Management Applications to Dam Safety Activities within the Bureau of Reclamation

      • Neil F. Parrett

      Pages 159-178

This is a collection of papers presented at the 1985 annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis. As always seems to occur at these meetings, the discussion was lively, the sessions were filled, and people complained about not being able to hear all the papers they wanted to because of concurrent sessions. If ever someone is in charge of a meeting, I wish them the good luck to have it be one for the Society for Risk Analysis. While I was responsible for the meeting, it could not have taken place without the efforts of the general chairman, Alan Moshissi. The program committee was chaired by Janice Longstreth, and included Lee Abramson and Vincent Covello. Together we assembled disparate papers into reasonably coherent sessions, prodded authors into getting us manuscrLpts on time, and dealt with all the last minute changes that are required for a major meeting. The Washington chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis hosted the meeting. Dr. Longstreth was president of the chapter during this fateful year and deserves a great deal of thanks for her organizational skills and efforts. Rick Cothern, Jerry Chandler, Kathleen Knox, Sue Perlin, and Paul Price played major roles in organ1z1ng the meeting and making it run smoothly. Special thanks go to Richard J. Burk, Jr. , Executive Secretary of the Society, and his staff for handling the logistics.

• assessment
• organization
• risk analysis
• risk assessment
• ecotoxicology

• Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Lester B. Lave

Policies and ethics