Overview
- Covers both probabilistic (catastrophic) risk analysis and chronic risk analysis
- Offers an excellent introduction to communicating risk to the media and the public
- Features a clear and accessible format with simple calculations, tables, formulae, diagrams, charts & realistic examples
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About this book
This is the long-awaited pocket text on risk assessment for students and professionals in all health and safety fields.
Risk assessment and risk-based decision-making are essential skills in today’s health and safety fields, but a convenient pocket or desk reference has been needed with enough theory to begin a preliminary risk assessment, together with clear explanations, applications, and worked examples. This book addresses that need.
It provides a practical resource for estimating risks in various applications, as well as assisting with the design of larger project-based assessments. It explains the two main numeric procedures: probabilistic, or “catastrophic”, and quantitative, or “chronic”, risk assessment, along with chapters on qualitative risk assessment and approaches to food-related risks. A final chapter examines how people perceive risk, and provides advice and assistance in the development of essential, effective risk communication with the public andwith the media. Numerous case studies are analyzed.
Assessment and Communication of Risk: A Pocket Text for Health and Safety Professionals is a one-stop resource for students in all health and safety fields, and provides a valuable guide for existing field practitioners in public health, occupational health and safety, hospitals, environmental assessment offices, and ministries of health, labour, and the environment.
Keywords
- health risk assessment
- human risk
- public health risk analysis
- occupational (hygiene) risk assessment
- safety risk assessment
- environmental health risk assessment
- risk communication
- communicating risk to the media and public
- risk perception
- occupational health and safety
- public health
- probabilistic risk assessment
- chronic risk assessment
- catastrophic risk
- true relative risk
- odds ratio
- qualitative risks
- food-risks
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Eric Liberda, PhD is a professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds qualifications in toxicology and risk assessment from New York University (USA), RMIT (Australia), and the University of Waterloo (Canada). Dr. Liberda serves on government advising groups, conducts research related to human exposures, and has dedicated his life to helping others.
Timothy Sly, PhD is Professor Emeritus, School of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds public health qualifications from UK and Canada, and graduate degrees in Epidemiology (University of Western Ontario) and Risk Studies (Teesside University, UK). He has also taught and worked in Brazil, Philippines, Taiwan, and the Caribbean Region, and served on expert committees for food and waterborne diseases.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessment and Communication of Risk
Book Subtitle: A Pocket Text for Health and Safety Professionals
Authors: Eric Liberda, Timothy Sly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28905-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28904-0Published: 25 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28905-7Published: 24 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 250
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication, Environmental Health