The following appears in a box on
page 42 of the printed report.
Examples of Risk Management Actions
- Public health agencies educating
different cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups
about practices to modify or avoid, such as smoking,
alcohol consumption, high-fat diets, eating parts of
contaminated fish that concentrate pollutants, and
chemical or radiation hazards in the home.
- Municipalities
working to reduce nonpoint sources of pollution, such
as runoff from highways, by preventing erosion;
upgrading drinking water, sewage, and municipal solid
waste treatment facilities; or instituting recycling
programs.
- Community groups working
with local businesses and industries to monitor the
success of their risk-reduction activities.
- Citizens recycling,
purchasing products that use recycled materials, or
complying with automobile emissions testing.
- Businesses no longer
selling products that can harm the environment;
disposing of wastes safely; or working with employees
to anticipate and reduce worksite safety and health
risks.
Industries reducing or
eliminating emissions or discharges to ambient air,
workplace air, and bodies of water by upgrading air
pollution control technology, upgrading wastewater
treatment, and improving manufacturing processes
(such as developing a closed-system approach,
recycling wastes, or substituting less hazardous
materials).
- Unions working with
industries to identify less hazardous workplace
practices and processes; educating workers about
practices that reduce hazardous exposures in the
workplace and hazardous emissions to the environment,
such as proper waste disposal; or helping employers
monitor the success of risk-reduction activities.
- Technical experts
providing technical assistance to local agencies,
community groups, businesses, and unions to help
implement risk-reducing actions.