Health Risk Assessment

Health Risk AssessmentHealth risk assessment is a scientific tool designed to help answer questions. Government agencies rely on risk assessments to help them determine which potential hazards are the most significant. Risk assessments can also guide regulators in abating environmental hazards. Members of the public who learn the basics of risk assessment can improve their understanding of both real and perceived environmental hazards, and they can work more effectively with decision makers on solutions to environmental problems.

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Health Risk Assessment Form:Example

General Health Risk Assessment No:__________
Firm/Company:_________ Department:_________
Contact Name:_________ Nature of Business:___________
Telephone No:_____________
Principal Hazards
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Persons at Risk

Main Legal Requirements
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Significant Risks Consequences

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Existing Control Measures

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Residual Risk, i.e. after controls are in place.

Severity Likelihood Residual risk
Information relevant HSE and trade publications

Comments from Line Manager Comments from Risk Assessor

Signed Date Signed Date
Review Date

Health Risk Assessment: Methods

The term health risk assessment is often misinterpreted. People sometimes think that a risk assessment will tell them whether a current health problem or symptom was caused by exposure to a chemical. This is not the case. Scientists who are searching for links between chemical exposures and health problems in a community may conduct an epidemiologic study. These studies typically include a survey of health problems in a community and a comparison of health problems in that community with those in other cities, communities, or the population as a whole.

Health risk assessment requires both sound science and professional judgment and is a constantly developing process.

Health Risk Assessment: Uses

Risk managers may rely on a health risk assessment when making regulatory decisions, such as setting drinking water standards, or developing plans to clean up hazardous waste sites. Risk managers are responsible for protecting human health, but they must also consider public acceptance, as well as technological, economic, social, and political factors, when arriving at their decisions. For example, they may need to consider how much it would cost to remove a contaminant from drinking water supplies or how seriously the loss of jobs would affect a community if a factory were to close due to the challenge of meeting regulatory requirements that are set at the most stringent level.

Health risk assessments can help risk managers weigh the benefits and  costs of various alternatives for reducing exposure to chemicals. For example, a health risk assessment of a hazardous waste site could help determine whether placing a clay cap over the waste to prevent exposure would offer the same health protection as the more costly option of removing the waste from the site.