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	Network Computing \| Feature \| Security \| Risk-Assessment Strategies \| Page 1 \| October 30, 2000
		Risk assessment--often confused with vulnerability assessment/analysis, which is a critical phase in any security-risk assessment--is widely used in both the public and private sectors to support decision-making processes.
		Risk assessment is a process for tying together information gathered about business assets, their value and their associated vulnerabilities, to produce a measure of the risk to the business from a given project, implementation or design.
		Although this type of qualitative risk assessment works sometimes for small organizations, it doesn't scale for large enterprises; often, the reasoning behind the assessment is a recent incident that has received wide news coverage.
	www.networkcomputing.com /1121/1121f3.html (900 words)

	Drug Info
		Risk assessment is the mental process of measuring the risks involved in engaging in a given activity.
		People perform risk assessments most often when they are trying to decide whether or not to engage in an activity they perceive to be "risky." Using a drug, for example (any drug), has risks.
		The weight of a risk can be described as the severity of the possible harm that might occur from a given activity multiplied by the probability of the harm occurring.
	dancesafe.org /documents/druginfo/risk.php (817 words)

	Vol. 3 No. 4: Quantitative Risk Assessment: An Emerging Tool for Emerging Foodborne Pathogens
		In any case, the intent of risk assessment is to track the pathogen population and estimate the likelihood of its being ingested by the consumer.
		The adoption of risk assessment was primarily a result of legal and administrative challenges to regulatory authority during the 1970s (6).
		Quantitative risk assessment is an emerging tool in the field of microbial food and water safety (9-12).
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol3no4/lammer.htm (2975 words)

	EXTOXNET TIBs - RISK ASSESSMENT BACKGROUND
		This evaluation is known as risk assessment, and is based on the capacity of a chemical to cause harm (its toxicity), and the potential for humans to be exposed to that chemical in a particular situation; for example, workplace or home.
		The former is a measure of the extent and type of negative effects associated with a particular level of exposure and the latter is a measure of the extent and duration of exposure to an individual or population.
		Risk assessment is a complex process which depends on the quality of scientific information that is available.
	extoxnet.orst.edu /tibs/riskasse.htm (1781 words)

	Guidance for Industry Premarketing Risk Assessment
		Specifically, risk management is an iterative process of (1) assessing a product’s benefit-risk balance, (2) developing and implementing tools to minimize its risks while preserving its benefits, (3) evaluating tool effectiveness and reassessing the benefit-risk balance, and (4) making adjustments, as appropriate, to the risk minimization tools to further improve the benefit-risk balance.
		The adequacy of the assessment of risk is a matter of both quantity (ensuring that enough patients are studied) and quality (the appropriateness of the assessments performed, the appropriateness and breadth of the patient populations studied, and how results are analyzed).
		Good clinical risk assessment in the later stages of drug development should be guided by the results of comprehensive preclinical safety assessments and a rigorous, thoughtful clinical pharmacology program (including elucidation of metabolic pathways, identification of possible drug-drug interactions, and determination of any effects from hepatic and/or renal impairment).
	www.fda.gov /cder/guidance/6357fnl.htm (4761 words)

	HSE - Risk management
		Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them.
		As an employer, the law requires you to assess and manage health and safety risks - for most businesses this is not difficult to do and HSE has published Five Steps to Risk Assessment to help you.
		This is not the only way to do a risk assessment, there are other methods that work well, particularly for more complex risks and circumstances. However we believe this method is the most straightforward for most organisations.
	www.hse.gov.uk /risk (213 words)

	Risk assessment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Risk assessment is measuring two quantities of the risk R, the magnitude of the potential loss L, and the probability p that the loss will occur.
		Risk assessment may be the most important step in the risk management process, and may also be the most difficult and prone to error.
		In the context of public health, risk assessment is the process of quantifying the probability of a harmful effect to individuals or populations from certain human activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Risk_assessment (1052 words)

	Risk Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Risk identification and assessment is typically the first stage in any risk management process, and crucial to optimizing an overall risk strategy for a corporation with significant assets to protect.
		We also have capabilities in assessing and quantifying risk stemming from a variety of operational and business continuity exposures in the various industry segments that we have served for over 20 years.
		Information generated from a risk assessment is used to assist clients in developing short and long-term risk reduction strategies, and to support financial decisions on financing and transferring risk in the traditional and alternative markets.
	www.eqecat.com /abscorporatesolutions/riskAssessment.html (285 words)

	Risk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Risk is a concept that denotes a potential negative impact to an asset or some characteristic of value that may arise from some present process or future event.
		One effective way to solve framing problems in risk assessment or measurement (although some argue that risk cannot be measured, only assessed) is to ensure that scenarios, as a strict rule, must include unpopular and perhaps unbelievable (to the group) high-impact low-probability "threat" and/or "vision" events.
		Risk in that case is the degree of uncertainty associated with a return on an asset.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Risk (2463 words)

	Risk Assessment: Minnesota Dept. of Health
		Risk assessment is a science-based tool that is used to evaluate the effects of a chemical or substance, activity, lifestyle or natural phenomenon on human health and/or the environment.
		Risk assessment utilizes the best available scientific information, as well as professional judgment and policy, to estimate risks, and ultimately to help government agencies and the public make informed decisions about preventing and reducing risks.
		Health risk assessment also is used to provide information to the public about ways to prevent and reduce exposures to environmental health hazards.
	www.health.state.mn.us /divs/eh/risk/index.html (285 words)

	Concept Paper: Premarketing Risk Assessment
		Risk assessment is the process of identifying, estimating, and evaluating the nature and severity of risks associated with a product.
		Risk assessment based on data generated from observational data sources (including case reports, case series and pharmacoepidemiologic studies) obtained after a product is marketed is addressed by a separate concept paper entitled Risk Assessment of Observational Data: Good Pharmacovigilance Practices and Pharmacoepidemiologic Assessment.
		However, a negative result from a pooled analysis does not prove an absence of risk, because the studies may consist of heterogeneous patient populations, and the methods for detecting safety outcomes of interest may not be consistent across the studies.
	www.fda.gov /cder/meeting/riskManageI.htm (4509 words)

	RISK: Articles and Comments by Title (A-M)
		Linda-Jo Schierow, Comparison of Environmental Risk Provisions in the 103d Congress --- Provisions of several House and Senate bills, including a proposal for improved risk assessment, are compared in tabular format....
		Dalton G. Paxman, Congressional Risk Proposals --- Relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed-- and associates this with an ever-growing interest in risk assessment....
		Jonathan Baert Wiener, Managing the Iatrogenic Risks of Risk Management --- Analogizing to concerns that led the practice of medicine to shift from a specialist to a team-based approach, suggests that public and environmental health objectives would be better served if, e.g., regulatory jurisdiction were less atomized.....[.pdf] 9.39 (1998).
	www.fplc.edu /RISK/rskarts.htm (3846 words)

	Chemicals Hazard/Risk Assessment:About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hazard/risk assessment is the second step after testing of chemicals for the management of risks to human health and the environment.
		Risks are determined by "hazard"(chemical properties that lead to harmful effects) and "exposure"(amount of intake or environmental concentration.) Guidance on various methods for hazard assessment, including estimation methods using structure-activity relationships, is being published in Testing and Assessment Series.
		Many other OECD activities on hazard/risk assessment are undertaken within programmes such as Existing Chemicals, New Chemicals, and Pesticides and Biocides which deal with specific types of chemicals.
	www.oecd.org /about/0,2337,en_2649_34373_1_1_1_1_1,00.html (188 words)

	Water Quality Information Center: Risk Assessment
		Find article citations in NAL catalog (AGRICOLA) on risk assessment and communication from 1999 to the present.
		"EPA conducts ecological risk assessments to determine what risks are posed by a pesticide and whether changes to the use or proposed use are necessary to protect the environment." The use of some pesticides may impact the quality of soil and water.
		For the agricultural sector, outlines the "potential threat of environmental exposures to human and ecological health" and defines risk assessment.
	www.nal.usda.gov /wqic/risk.shtml (384 words)

	Programs: "Hot Spots" Risk Assessment
		A risk assessment, as defined under the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Act, includes a comprehensive analysis of the dispersion of hazardous substances into the environment, the potential for human exposure, and a quantitative assessment of both individual and population-wide health risks associated with those levels of exposure.
		The risk assessments submitted by the facilities are reviewed by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and approved by the district.
		where a single cancer risk value (rather than a range of risk) is needed or prudent for characterizing risk or where a single risk value is used for risk management decision-making for residential receptors.
	www.arb.ca.gov /ab2588/riskassess.htm (802 words)

	Risk Books: Risk Assessment and Analysis
		The transboundary risk topics addressed highlight the key political, economic, social and cultural issues of our times, such as how transboundary risks are constructed, how they are communicated within and between countries, how the authorities can build trust in political management processes, and what forms of democratic risk management institutions are appropriate.
		Focusing on the assessment of risks and relative risks on the basis of clinical investigations, this book is supplemented with helpful graphs, charts, and tables as well as references to its web site for larger data sets and exercises.
		While traditional indicator methods for pathogen assessment and control have always left much to be desired, it is only with the advent of modern microbial methods that it is now possible to establish rigorous testing protocols for infectious agents comparable to those in place for chemical agents and other contaminants.
	www.riskworld.com /books/topics/riskanal.htm (6467 words)

	Superfund Risk Assessment \| Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment \| OSWER \| USEPA
		For ecological receptors, determining the level of risk is more complicated and is a function of the receptors of concern, the nature of the adverse effects caused by the contaminants, and the desired condition of the ecological resources.
		Risk Assessments may proceed in a straightforward, linear fashion, but often repeat stages depending on sampling and analytical results and on decisions made by risk assessors and risk managers.
		Hence, the components of a risk assessment are shown in a circular fashion, rather than strictly linear (click on the map for more information on the various topics).
	www.epa.gov /oswer/riskassessment/risk_superfund.htm (575 words)

	BMBL Section V - Risk Assessment
		In the context of the microbiological and biomedical laboratories, the assessment of risk focuses primarily on the prevention of laboratory-associated infections.
		The risk assessment for biological hazard should particularly focus on the animal facility's potential for increased exposure, both to human pathogens and to zoonotic agents.
		The described risk assessment process is also applicable to laboratory operations other than those involving the use of primary agents of human disease.
	www.cdc.gov /od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4s5.htm (2002 words)

	Aim for a Healthy Weight: Assess your Risk
		BMI is a reliable indicator of total body fat, which is related to the risk of disease and death.
		It is a good indicator of your abdominal fat which is another predictor of your risk for developing risk factors for heart disease and other diseases.
		The table, Risks of Obesity-Associated Diseases by BMI and Waist Circumference, provides you with an idea of whether your BMI combined with your waist circumference increases your risk for developing obesity associated diseases or conditions.
	www.nhlbi.nih.gov /health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/risk.htm (505 words)

	Risk assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Risk Assessment is one of the three components of the Risk Analysis process, the others being Risk Management and Risk Communication.
		The Risk Assessment process provides an estimate of the probability and severity of illnesses attributable to a particular hazard related to food.
		FAO's food safety assessment work covers the evaluation of food additives, contaminants, residues of veterinary drugs and pesticides, microbiological hazards, and processes including foods derived from biotechnology.
	www.fao.org /ag/agn/food/riskassessment_en.stm (160 words)

	The Assessment of Risk
		Latterly, there have been moves to analyse risk assessment schedules for psychopathy and suicide(Dolan and Doyle, 2000 and Cheng et al, 2000).
		Risk assessment by psychiatrists therefore would have little to do with lowering violence in the general community.
		However, in helping assess dynamic risks in people with mental disorders there are risk factotrs that may be of use.
	www.priory.com /psych/risk.htm (1193 words)

	SecurityDocs: Risk Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The goal of a security assessment, (also known as a security audit or security review), is to ensure that necessary security controls are integrated into the design and implementation of a project.
		The result of an effective security assessment is that management is in a better position to make informed decisions concerning the delivery of appropriate security controls for their business processes.
		Even though the people on the assessment team were all internal employees, the review was able to remain independent because of the team's limited knowledge of the internal configuration; the team was made up of recently hired individuals.
	www.securitydocs.com /Vulnerability_Management/Risk_Assessment (950 words)

	Cardiac Risk Assessment
		The lipid profile is the most important blood test for risk assessment.
		Homocysteine is an amino acid that comes from the normal breakdown of proteins in the body and appears to be a better test than cholesterol for predicting heart disease, stroke, and reduced blood flow to the hands and feet.
		Those who are overweight, smoke, have high blood pressure or diabetes, abnormal risk test results, and those with a family history of heart disease are at greater risk.
	www.labtestsonline.org /understanding/analytes/cardiac_risk/glance.html (611 words)

	Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
		The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, which was mandated as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, was disbanded on August 31, 1997, with some staff work continuing into September.
		The full text of Volume 1 of the final report of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Framework for Environmental Health Risk Management, is available in RiskWorld in both HTML and PDF formats.
		The full text of Volume 2 of the final report of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Regulatory Decision-Making, is available in RiskWorld in both HTML and PDF formats.
	www.riskworld.com /riskcommission (597 words)

	Postgraduate Medicine: Principles of suicide risk assessment
		A recent survey of physicians who lost a patient to suicide found that risk assessments had been completed in only 38% of cases (7).
		After assessing a patient's risk for suicide, physicians are faced with the important decision of how to best care for the patient.
		Not all suicides are preventable, but a methodical approach to suicide risk assessment enables physicians to treat severely depressed patients and decrease the morbidity and mortality rates among those who make serious suicide attempts.
	www.postgradmed.com /issues/2002/09_02/frierson4.htm (2704 words)

	Ecological Risk Assessment
		The risk assessment uses field, laboratory, and modeling approaches to aid in identifying areas contaminated at levels that represent an unacceptable risk to biota, developing cleanup goals, and selecting remedial alternatives for the site.
		Specifically, EVS was asked to conduct an ecological risk assessment to determine whether adverse ecological impacts (1) have resulted from past activities or (2) are currently occurring because of contamination.
		An ecorisk assessment code being developed predicts the daily dose of contaminant and provides an estimate of risk; the results will be used to calculate soil cleanup guidelines.
	www.ead.anl.gov /project/dsp_fsdetail.cfm?id=8 (490 words)

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