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INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT STUDIES
Hardcopy , PDF
01-29-2014
English
Technical Committee on Environmental Risk Assessment
Preface
0 Introduction
0.1 The Utility of Environmental Risk Assessment
0.2 Origins of Environmental Risk Assessment
0.3 Environmental Management Systems
0.4 Governmental Environmental Assessment Approval
Processes
0.5 Applying Environmental Risk Assessment to
Business Operations
1 Scope
1.1 Environmental Risk Assessment
1.2 Exceptions
1.3 Environmental Risk Assessment as a Component
of Risk Management
1.3.1 Risk Management
1.3.2 Iteration
1.3.3 Decision-Making
2 Definitions and Reference Publications
2.1 Definitions
2.2 Reference Publications
3 Concepts Relevant to ERA
3.1 Principal Environmental Features
3.1.1 Types of Environmental Change
3.1.2 Levels of Ecosystem Organization
3.1.3 Interaction of Risk Agents in the
Environment
3.1.4 Ecosystem Resilience and Thresholds
3.2 Valued Environmental Components
3.3 Selection of Endpoints
3.4 The Significance of Environmental Risks and the
Role of Stakeholders
3.5 Uncertainty
4 Conducting an ERA
4.1 When to Conduct an ERA
4.2 ERA Framework
4.2.1 Initial Assessment
4.2.2 Evaluating Initial Assessment
4.2.3 Subsequent Procedures
5 Requirements of an ERA
5.1 Introduction to Requirements
5.2 Documentation
5.3 Definition of Goals and Methods
5.3.1 Goals
5.3.2 Methods
5.4 Specification of Minimum Technical Requirements
5.5 Personnel
5.6 Reporting and Followup
5.6.1 Reporting
5.6.2 Verification
5.6.3 Followup
6 The ERA Steps - Case Study
6.1 Introduction to the Case Study
6.2 Illustrative Case Study - A Dry-Cleaning
Establishment
6.2.1 Describe the Environment
6.2.2 Describe the Activity
6.2.3 Identify Hazards and Risk Scenarios
6.2.4 Identify Valued Environmental Components
and Incorporate Stakeholder Interests
6.2.5 Establish Endpoints
6.2.6 Estimate Effects
6.2.7 Calculate the Likelihood of Risk Scenarios
6.2.8 Compare to Preestablished End Points
6.2.9 Determine Acceptability of Risks
6.2.10 Conclusion of the Assessment
Appendices
A Supplementary Discussion of ERA Steps
B Risk Management Terminology and Decision-Making Process
C Other Publications
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