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RiskWorld |
| Internal Web Sites |
| Contact Mary Bryant, RiskWorld staff, e-mail bryant@tec-com.com. |
| Geotechnical engineering consultants who provide cost/risk analysis for decision making. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.ag.com.au/ |
| American Statistical Association's Section on Risk Analysis |
| The Risk Analysis Section, a relatively new section of the American Statistical Association, grew out of an ASA committee, advisory to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The principal objectives of the Risk Analysis Section are to study and develop the methodology of risk analysis and risk assessment and to develop their applications to various subject matter areas. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.isds.duke.edu/riskanalysis/ras.html |
| Animal Plant and Food Risk Analysis Network (APFRAN) |
| APFRAN is an integral part of the Animal Health, Plant Protection and Food safety programs of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). By serving as a liaison between science and management, and by providing technical information and advice, APFRAN facilitates decision-making within national programs, thus contributing to the overall success of Canada's agricultural, food and forest industries. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.cfia-acia.agr.ca/english/ppc/science/ahra/apfran_e.shtml |
| Bercha Group |
| The Bercha Group, specializing in risk analysis, engineering, and geomatics, has successfully completed hundreds of projects for industrial and government clients in Canada and worldwide since 1975. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.berchagroup.com/ |
| California Institute for Public Risk Analysis (CIPRA) |
| CIPRA is a non-profit, tax-exempt California corporation whose single purpose is to collect, compile and disseminate workers compensation, liability and other risk management related data for the benefit of public agencies. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.cipra.com/ |
| Risk Analysis Consultants in RiskWorld |
| RiskWorld provides a growing list of consulting firms specializing in risk analysis, with links to their webs. (Posted March 2000.) |
| http://www.riskworld.com/websites/webfiles/ws00a004.htm#RiskAnalysis |
| Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis |
| A center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering whose mission is to break the chains of events that cause accidents. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/chpra/whatis.html |
| Center for Risk Analysis and Management (C-RAM) |
| C-RAM was formed to improve risk analysis and communication for the State of Florida and surrounding states. The Center provides education, training, research and resources for management of chemical risks for the protection of public health. The Center strives to identify, characterize and evaluate public health risks associated with environmental, occupational and agricultural exposure to chemicals and environmental agents. The Center is part of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.ces.fau.edu/library/riskassesment/risk6.html |
| Center for Risk Excellence, U.S. Department of Energy |
| The web site for the Center for Risk Excellence offers several resources for risk professionals, including the full text of current and back issues of the newsletter Risk Excellence Notes, information on risk assessment tools, and a paper on the Year 2000 computer problem. |
| http://riskcenter.doe.gov |
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Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation |
| The Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) is a university-based national organization that is developing information and methods of analysis and prediction to support the decision makers involved in managing the decommissioning and cleanup of American nuclear weapons production facilities, including the Hanford site in Washington State and the Savannah River site in South Carolina. (Posted January 5, 1998.) |
| http://www.cresp.org/ |
| Decision Analysis Society |
| The Society promotes the development and use of logical methods for the improvement of decision-making in public and private enterprise. Such methods include models for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty or multiple objectives; techniques of risk analysis and risk assessment; experimental and descriptive studies of decision-making behavior; economic analysis of competitive and strategic decisions; techniques for facilitating decision-making by groups; and computer modeling software and expert systems for decision support. Members include practitioners, educators, and researchers with backgrounds in engineering, business, economics, statistics, psychology, and other social and applied sciences. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb/ |
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Environmental Assessment Division of Argonne National Laboratory |
| The Environmental Assessment Division of Argonne National Laboratory assesses the impact of proposed human actions on the environment and on human health and safety and evaluates the effectiveness of alternative actions and of possible mitigation and restoration strategies. |
| http://www.ead.anl.gov/ |
| Enterprise Risk Solutions (ERS), a subsidiary of the financial services consulting firm Oliver, Wyman & Company, has launched eRisks.com, the first integrated online resource for risk management professionals. The web site provides an array of information and analytical services, such as education, case studies, trends, tools, news, benchmarks and best practices. Many of the web's features eventually will be available by subscription only. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://www.erisks.com/ |
| Federation of American Scientists (FAS) |
| FAS conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. FAS is a privately-funded non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes 51 of America's Nobel laureates in the sciences. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.fas.org/ |
| Professionals involved with any of the many aspects of risk analysis as it pertains to food safety will find tools and links to numerous sources of information at this web site. Goals for the clearinghouse include consolidating risk analysis research data and methodology from public and proprietary sources, assisting coordination of research activities, identifying gaps in needed research, and assisting the development of food safety risk assessment models. Initially the development of the clearinghouse will focus on microbial risk assessment. Scientific collaborators from the University of Maryland's Veterinary Medicine Department and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition have created and operate the clearinghouse, which is the responsibility of the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (Posted July 2000.) |
| http://www.foodriskclearinghouse.umd.edu/ |
| Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center (FRAC) |
| FRAC was established in response to the public demand for a centralized information source on issues of traveler safety and security. Since then FRAC has expanded its role to provide information of interest and importance to segments of the public wanting to know about residential, commercial, industrial and institutional safety. The focus of FRAC is to analyze safety and security event data in an effort to identify how future incidents can be avoided. FRAC is dedicated to providing information to anyone concerned about the foreseeable risks of loss or injury resulting from safety and security hazards. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.frac.com/ |
| GeoInfo Solutions |
| GIS provides off-the-shelf MapInfo and custom-programmed decision support tools integrating digital maps, spreadsheets and databases. These tools assist public service agencies and private corporations with risk analysis, resource allocation and decision-making. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.geoinfosolutions.com/ |
| Harvard Center of Risk Analysis (HCRA) |
| Most public health activities focus on understanding and reducing one particular disease or hazard, such as AIDS, pollution, or poor nutrition. HCRA was launched with the mission to promote reasoned public responses to health, safety and environmental hazards by taking a broader view. HCRA attempts to provide a "big picture" view of public health by comparing and ranking a wide range of hazards, analyzing the results of dealing with those hazards in various ways, and developing sound scientific data identifying policy choices that are most likely to achieve the greatest health, safety, and environmental benefits with the most efficient use of finite resources. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/ |
| HLB Decision Economics Inc. |
| HLB offers services in the areas of decision support for health and other public sectors, transportation economics and policy, and risk analysis to industry and governments in the United States, Canada and throughout the world. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.hlb-econ.com/web1/index.htm |
Founded in 1981 and located in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University, the IRRA seeks to initiate basic and applied research aimed toward increasing the fundamental knowledge base and methodology in reliability, quality control, and risk analysis. The institute focuses on the development of new and modern methodologies, with an emphasis on implementation, and also emphasizes the development and application of Bayesian methodology in addressing and solving practical problems. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~irra/index.html |
| Litigation Risk Analysis™ |
| Litigation Risk Analysis™ provides application of decision tree analysis to law and applies the techniques to legal training, consulting and software applications. It also provides a rigorous approach for dealing with — and quantifying — the uncertainties inherent in litigation and a logical method for arriving at conclusions about case value that properly reflect analysis of the underlying issues and evidence. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.litigationrisk.com/ |
| Marvin Zonis + Associates, Inc. (MZ+A) |
| For those investing abroad, access to the best political risk analysis, tools and solutions can mean the difference between success and failure. Marvin Zonis + Associates, Inc. (MZ+A) provides analysis, tools and solutions for political risk management. They are a trusted advisor to leading international investors, traders, and lenders, helping them to identify and manage their political risk exposures. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.mza-inc.com/ |
| Measurisk |
| Measurisk is the leading full service provider (FSP) in the risk management industry. The company's web-based risk measurement service provides interactive risk analysis and reporting capabilities for the investment community. Measurisk products provide robust valuation and modeling techniques consistent with regulatory requirements, accounting standards, disclosure and market best practices. All risk techniques were developed in the sell-side sector and customized by Measurisk for a wide array of investors. The company draws on the deep capital markets, risk measurement and investment management capabilities of their management and development teams as well as the strength of premier market participant investors and strategic partners. (Posted September 2000; updated January 2002.) |
| http://www.measurisk.com/ |
| A major information resource on the wide variety of risks human beings
face everyday, Risk Analysis Center aims to contribute to better public
understanding of--and ability to evaluate--risk in everyday life. The
center's primary feature is an on-line database of abstracts from articles
containing information about risk that appear in leading newspapers
(scanned daily) and in scientific, medical and technical journals and from
risk material in books, papers, and technical reports from academic,
research, and other institutions. Additional features include a
continually updated bibliography of published information on risk, a
selection of articles and papers on risk subjects, and a directory with
links to other risk web sites. Access to the center is free, but
registration is required.
Risk Analysis Center is an independent service conceived and developed by NTC Publications Ltd, a leading international information provider that is part of the Information Sciences group, based in Henley-on-Thames, UK. (Posted May 2000.) |
| http://www.risk-analysis-center.com/ |
| Risk Analysis Group at Tellus Institute |
| The Risk Analysis Group at Tellus Institute assists government, business, and communities in preventing environmental and public health risks through research, training and education. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.tellus.org/risk/riskhome.html |
| Risk analysis consultants are compiling links to resources they have found useful in their work to produce a not-for-profit website that will be a useful tool for everyone interested in risk and reliability analyses. They welcome suggestions of links to include on this site. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://www.riskandreliability.com/ |
| Risk Engineering, Inc. |
| Risk Engineering, Inc., provides services in probability and statistical analysis applied to engineering problems. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.riskeng.com/ |
| Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division (SERAD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Safety is the reduced risk achieved by successful application of engineering understanding and controls to hazards. For new products and processes, risk is identified and minimized by analysis of previous experience and conservative design. The interests of SERAD extend across most of the other ASME Divisions. This Division works with industry, ASME Codes & Standards, and other relevant professional and regulatory organizations to discuss, review, and promote practices which lead to reduced risk and improved occupational environments. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.serad.org/ |
| S. J. Rundt & Associates, Inc. |
| S. J. Rundt & Associates, Inc. is dedicated to helping multinational companies, exporters, importers, banks and investors assess risks and opportunities in their international strategies and transactions. Rundt provides an essential source of information, independent judgement and forecasts on global developments in trade & finance, economic and political trends, and government regulations. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.rundtsintelligence.com/ |
| SCRAM Professional Analysis Services |
| The company provides project schedules, cost risk analysis services, and software for effective, informed project management. Data is analyzed using SCRAM 99 and a risk analysis report, complete with recommendations is provided. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.scramsoftware.vallnet.com/ |
| The Society for Risk Analysis is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, scholarly, international society that provides an open forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis. Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management, and policy relating to risk, in the context of risks of concern to individuals, to public and private sector organizations, and to society at a local, regional, national, or global level. See glossary of risk analysis terms. (Posted November 1995.) |
| http://www.riskworld.com/profsoci/ps5me002.htm |
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Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| ORNL's Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section promotes the protection of human health and the environment by developing and applying improved methodologies and communications for risk, toxicological, and environmental regulatory analyses. (Posted January 2000.) |
| http://www.hsrd.ornl.gov/taraweb/index.htm |
| Vose Consulting Risk Analysis Services |
| Vose Consulting is an independent firm that helps industry and government make better decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty through the highest quality risk analysis methods. Their risk analysis services include consulting, training courses, and the training and reference software ModelAssist. (Posted September 2000, updated May 2007.) |
| http://www.risk-modelling.com/ |
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