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A framework for conducting human health risk assessment at contaminated sites Zapf-Gilje, Reidar, 1951-; Boyle, B.; Wright, W.; Haerer, W.; Macfarlane, M.
Abstract
The recommended human health risk assessment framework allows for the consideration of site-specific factors, such as the screening of exposure pathways, contaminants and receptors, and encourages the development of a conceptual site model, which will enable the risk assessor to focus on matters of potential significance or concern. The need to provide interim deliverables, in the form of technical memoranda documenting assumptions made and procedures used in the the problem formulation, toxicity assessment and exposure assessment phases, is emphasized. As demonstrated above, provisions made for the use of stochastic modelling, where appropriate, will likely result in estimates of risk mat more closely reflect reality, and allow uncertainty to be quantified; value-of-information analysis can then be performed to determine where additional (if any) investigation or modelling efforts should be focussed.
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A framework for conducting human health risk assessment at contaminated sites
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1994
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The recommended human health risk assessment framework allows for the consideration of
site-specific factors, such as the screening of exposure pathways, contaminants and receptors,
and encourages the development of a conceptual site model, which will enable the risk assessor
to focus on matters of potential significance or concern. The need to provide interim
deliverables, in the form of technical memoranda documenting assumptions made and
procedures used in the the problem formulation, toxicity assessment and exposure assessment
phases, is emphasized. As demonstrated above, provisions made for the use of stochastic
modelling, where appropriate, will likely result in estimates of risk mat more closely reflect
reality, and allow uncertainty to be quantified; value-of-information analysis can then be
performed to determine where additional (if any) investigation or modelling efforts should be
focussed.
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eng
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2010-02-19
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0042261
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Unreviewed
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Other
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British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation
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