SEDL / STP / STP845-EB / STP30258S

The Use of Risk Assessment in Developing Health-Based Regulations

Roth, HD
President, Roth Associates, Inc., Rockville, Md.

Wyzga, RE
Technical manager of Environmental Risk Analyses, Energy Analyses and Environmental Division, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif

Hammerstrom, T
Senior statistician, Roth Associates, Inc., Rockville, Md.

Pages: 20    Published: Jan 1984

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Abstract

The six major steps in risk assessment are defined. Difficulties arising in each of the steps are discussed. The use of risk assessment by Federal regulatory agencies is briefly surveyed, and some recent legislation mandating risk assessment is listed.