Risk Assessment or Risk Acceptance: An Activist's Perspective on Why the EPA's Attempts to Achieve Environmental Justice Have Failed and What They Can Do About It

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzie Canales ◽  
Joshua Ozymy ◽  
Melissa Lee Jarrell
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Risk Acceptance

A Comparison of Machine Risk Acceptance Results Among Trained Users of ANSI B11-TR3

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Etherton
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Company Culture ◽  
Local Risk ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
A Company

The ANSI guideline on machine risk assessment, B11-TR3, describes risk assessment as an iterative process. This implies that protective measures of varied levels of technology can be successively evaluated until a risk that is acceptable is attained. The theories of risk acceptance are many. Reducing risk to a level that is agreed to be 'as low as reasonably practicable' (ALARP) is said to give focus to making a decision about when risk has been adequately reduced. Main (2004) says that "Although the concept of acceptable risk is becoming more commonly adopted throughout the world, a single level of acceptability cannot be universally applied. Acceptable risk is a function of many factors, and is specific to a company, culture, and time-era." Fischhoff et al. (1981) have argued that "the risk associated with the most acceptable option is not acceptable in any absolute sense. One accepts options, not risks, which are only one feature of options." This paper describes risk assessment groups in five manufacturing workplaces and discusses training that led to acceptable risk decisions for a hazardous machine system in each workplace. The composition of the five teams in this study ranged from a team with just a single engineer to teams involving several workplace personnel. The applied preventive measures ranged from measures that were tailored to meet corporate safety goals to measures that evolved from the local risk assessment team's ingenuity. The paper concludes with suggestions on how to make the risk acceptance concept meaningful in the training of future machine risk assessment teams.

Risk Sharing in a Partnership

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-152
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Managerial Resources ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
Risk Taker ◽  
Developing Strategies

Risk sharing is an activity which integrates recognition of risk, awareness of a party's capability, risk assessment, and developing strategies to accept and own the risk using managerial resources. Some traditional risk sharing philosophy is focused on taking risk of a lesser costs to the risk taker. Proper risk sharing, on the other hand, focuses on taking and acceptable risk within the capacity of the party to manage. Objective of proper risk sharing is to reduce the possibility the risk taker would not perform the part of the bargain. It may refer to numerous types of measures a partner would undertake to ensure the risk taken does not prevent the partner from performing part of the bargain. The chapter describes the different steps in risk sharing process which methods are used in the different steps, and provides some examples for risk acceptance and risk sharing that can be pursued by a partner.

scholarly journals Hybrid Resiliency-Stressor Conceptual Framework for Informing Decision Support Tools and Addressing Environmental Injustice and Health Inequities

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Burwell-Naney ◽  
Sacoby M. Wilson ◽  
Siobhan T. Whitlock ◽  
Robin Puett
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Disease Onset ◽  
Cumulative Risk ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Environmental Stressors ◽  
Screening Tools ◽  
Community Engaged Research

While structural factors may drive health inequities, certain health-promoting attributes of one’s “place” known as salutogens may further moderate the cumulative impacts of exposures to socio-environmental stressors that behave as pathogens. Understanding the synergistic relationship between socio-environmental stressors and resilience factors is a critical component in reducing health inequities; however, the catalyst for this concept relies on community-engaged research approaches to ultimately strengthen resiliency and promote health. Furthermore, this concept has not been fully integrated into environmental justice and cumulative risk assessment screening tools designed to identify geospatial variability in environmental factors that may be associated with health inequities. As a result, we propose a hybrid resiliency-stressor conceptual framework to inform the development of environmental justice and cumulative risk assessment screening tools that can detect environmental inequities and opportunities for resilience in vulnerable populations. We explore the relationship between actual exposures to socio-environmental stressors, perceptions of stressors, and one’s physiological and psychological stress response to environmental stimuli, which collectively may perpetuate health inequities by increasing allostatic load and initiating disease onset. This comprehensive framework expands the scope of existing screening tools to inform action-based solutions that rely on community-engaged research efforts to increase resiliency and promote positive health outcomes.

scholarly journals PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RISK ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA DEVELOPMENT IN MARITIME SHIPPING / PRAKTYCZNE ASPEKTY OKREŚLANIA KRYTERIÓW AKCEPTOWALNOŚCI RYZYKA W ŻEGLUDZE MORSKIEJ

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Teresa Abramowicz-Gerigk ◽  
Zbigniew Burciu ◽  
Piotr Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Acceptance Criteria ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Maritime Shipping ◽  
Risk Acceptance

Abstract The paper presents practical aspects of development of acceptable risk levels in maritime shipping with respect to the cooperation of parties involved in maritime safety, commonly used risk acceptance principles, criteria and uncertainties related to their development. The results of analysis of risk assessment methods used for potentially hazardous operations on board ships performed on the basis of extensive studies on the onboard safety management systems is presented. The merits and drawbacks of the approach used in the development of risk acceptance criteria in onboard safety management systems are discussed.

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