A Systematic, Comprehensive Framework for Environmental and Occupational Health Risk Management. Gail Charney
The US Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management has developed a framework to improve the logic, consistency, and acceptability of decisions related to public health protection and environmental and occupational health risk management. The framework has six compartments: Problem/Context, Risks, Options, Decision, Action, and Evaluation. The risk-management decision-making process is conducted in full collaboration with affected stakeholders, and it implemented iteratively, so that it can be refined based on continuing information acquisition and monitoring. This integrated risk management approach moves public health and environmental protection beyond the current statutorily fragmented, chemical-by-chemical, medium-by-medium, risk-by-risk, command-and-control approaches by simultaneously incorporating various media, contaminants, sources of exposure, nonregulatory approaches, and public values.
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