scholarly journals Review and Validity of 2010 Health Risk Assessment for Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facilities LLNL, Livermore Site (September 2019)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Podva-Baskin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Hazardous Waste Treatment ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Storage Facilities

Evaluating Risk After a Hazardous Waste Treatment Plant Released Persistent Organic Pollutants. Part 1. Background and Policy Issues

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tee L. Guidotti
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Human Health Risk ◽  
Treatment Plant

On 16 October 1996, a malfunction at the Swan Hills Special Waste Treatment Center (SHSWTC) in Alberta, Canada, released an undetermined quantity of persistent organic pollutants to the atmosphere. An ecologically based, staged health risk assessment was conducted to evaluate the human health risk, the findings of which are presented in Part 2, on Ecotoxicology and Human Health Risk. The incident resulted in the largest fine for an environmental infraction in Alberta history up to that time. Despite the incident, the province of Alberta has continued to subsidize the facility and has kept it in operation, with changes in management. The policy rationale is that if the facility were not available, accumulation and possible diversion of hazardous waste into illegal disposal alternatives would threaten the environment much more than operation of the plant. This case study illustrates an ecological approach to risk assessment and an attempted culturally sensitive approach to risk management. Incidents in which people are exposed to toxic substances do not occur in a social vacuum. Risk management strategies must be adapted to groups with different cultural values and expectations. Community and individual responses to such incidents, and the development of health advisory messages, may depend on presenting information on exposure and risk in terms consistent with cultural patterns among subpopulations in the community.

Issues On Health Risk Assessment At Hazardous Waste Sites and Resource Recovery Facilities in Region Ii

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-276
Author(s):  
Vinh Cam
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Resource Recovery ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Hazardous Waste Sites ◽  
Risk Assessment Strategy ◽  
Permitting Process ◽  
Region Ii

This paper examines the issues involved in health risk assessments at hazardous waste sites and resource recovery facilities in Region II and emphasizes the programmatic aspects of the problem and the integration of risk assessment into the permitting process for these facilities. Suggestions for the R&D agenda and policy needs to support a risk assessment strategy in this area are also discussed.

HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT ON RESIDENTS EXPOSED TO CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS CONTAMINATED IN GROUNDWATER OF A HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 219-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee ◽  
Chang-Chuan Chan ◽  
Chih-Wen Chung ◽  
Yee-Chung Ma ◽  
Gan-Shuh Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Chlorinated Hydrocarbons ◽  
Waste Site ◽  
Hazardous Waste Site
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