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From page 165... ... Risk assessments are frequently employed by risk managers to help make decisions about regulating substances. Risk assessments are intended to provide risk managers with scientifically credible information that is useful for decisionmaking (NRC, 1983) Read the entire page →
From page 166... ... Scientific findings and policy judgments embodied in risk assessments should be distinguished from political, economic, and social considerations that affect regulatory choices. This conceptual distinction allows for interactions and iterations between risk assessment and risk management, but not confusion of the two. Read the entire page →
From page 167... ... . These guidelines, some of which have been updated and reissued over the years, seek to preserve flexibility while building consistency and clarity in the risk evaluation process. Read the entire page →
From page 168... ... These recommendations rest on a framework for risk management that, like the Understanding Risk report, emphasizes the need for a comprehensive, problem-solving, iterative approach to risk management. The commission suggests that federal agencies move from a one-pollutant-at-a-time approach to a multimedia, multisource, multichemical risk assessment methodology that integrates information about many pollutants and diverse endpoints (PCCRARM, 1997a, 1997b) Read the entire page →
From page 169... ... APPENDIX A 169 Table A.1. Criteria of Risk Characterization Criterion Measurement procedure Getting the science right Ask risk analytic experts who rep resent the spectrum of interested parties to judge the technical ade quacy of the risk-analytic effort Getting the right science Ask representatives of the inter ested and affected parties how well their concerns were ad dressed by the scientific work that informed the decision Getting the right participation Ask public officials and represen tatives of the interested and af fected parties if there were other parties that should have been in volved Getting the participation right Ask representatives of the parties whether they were adequately consulted during the process; if there were specific points when they could have contributed but did not have the opportunity Developing accurate, balanced, Ask representatives of the parties and informative synthesis how well they understand the bases for the decision; whether they perceived any bias in the in formation coming from the re sponsible organization Source: NRC, 1996. Read the entire page →
From page 170... ... 170 RISK AND DECISIONS ABOUT TRU AND HLW at this initial stage a risk assessment team should be organized. The team should include technical experts, members of the community or communities, and others. Read the entire page →

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... Risk assessments are frequently employed by risk managers to help make decisions about regulating substances. Risk assessments are intended to provide risk managers with scientifically credible information that is useful for decisionmaking (NRC, 1983)

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From page 166...

... Scientific findings and policy judgments embodied in risk assessments should be distinguished from political, economic, and social considerations that affect regulatory choices. This conceptual distinction allows for interactions and iterations between risk assessment and risk management, but not confusion of the two.

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From page 167...

... . These guidelines, some of which have been updated and reissued over the years, seek to preserve flexibility while building consistency and clarity in the risk evaluation process.

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From page 168...

... These recommendations rest on a framework for risk management that, like the Understanding Risk report, emphasizes the need for a comprehensive, problem-solving, iterative approach to risk management. The commission suggests that federal agencies move from a one-pollutant-at-a-time approach to a multimedia, multisource, multichemical risk assessment methodology that integrates information about many pollutants and diverse endpoints (PCCRARM, 1997a, 1997b)

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From page 169...

... APPENDIX A 169 Table A.1. Criteria of Risk Characterization Criterion Measurement procedure Getting the science right Ask risk analytic experts who rep resent the spectrum of interested parties to judge the technical ade quacy of the risk-analytic effort Getting the right science Ask representatives of the inter ested and affected parties how well their concerns were ad dressed by the scientific work that informed the decision Getting the right participation Ask public officials and represen tatives of the interested and af fected parties if there were other parties that should have been in volved Getting the participation right Ask representatives of the parties whether they were adequately consulted during the process; if there were specific points when they could have contributed but did not have the opportunity Developing accurate, balanced, Ask representatives of the parties and informative synthesis how well they understand the bases for the decision; whether they perceived any bias in the in formation coming from the re sponsible organization Source: NRC, 1996.

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From page 170...

... 170 RISK AND DECISIONS ABOUT TRU AND HLW at this initial stage a risk assessment team should be organized. The team should include technical experts, members of the community or communities, and others.

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