Risk Assessment EENG 8781

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

• Define risk assessment as part of a risk management process.
• Describe elements of a business system and risk relationships.
• Give examples of risk sources, acceptable risk and types of risk.
• State reasons for risk assessment, cost of losses.
• Define basic risk assessment techniques.
• Describe inspection.
• Describe job hazard analysis.
• Describe potential accident analysis.
• Describe failure mode and effects analysis.
• Apply fault-tree analysis.
• Apply event-tree analysis.
• Define basic environmental, health and safety auditing.
• Characterize and calculate risks.
• Characterize toxicants, routes of exposure, recipients.
• Introduce concepts of NOEL, NOAEL, LOAEL, safety factors, acceptable daily intakes.
• Calculate human dose from human and animal studies.
• Identify and use models for risk analysis.
• Calculate excess risk.
• Conduct risk analysis for non-threshold toxicants.
• Estimate exposure concentrations and intakes of chemicals from environmental and occupational exposure.
• Estimate acceptable concentrations for the general and worker populations.
• Compare human health risk assessment with ecological risk assessment.
• Describe the EPA risk assessment process.
• Describe the BC MELP approach to risk assessment.
• Define criteria for evaluating risk assessment methods.
• Select the methods applicable to handling uncertainties.
• Define advantages and steps to implement plausible conservatism.
• Consider the communication between the assessor and the risk manager.

Effective as of Fall 2003