Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities

1. Risk Reduction Strategies for Setting Remedial Priorities: Hazardous Waste

   • Alfred Levinson

   Pages 213-218

2. Educating the Public About Toxicological Risk

   • Michael A. Kamrin

   Pages 219-222

3. Upper-Bound Estimates of Carcinogenic Risk: More Policy Than Science

   • Joseph P. Rieth, Thomas B. Starr

   Pages 223-230

4. Risk Communication: The Need for Incentives

   • E. A. C. Crouch, E. D. Klema, Richard Wilson

   Pages 231-239

5. An International Approach to Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Management for a Diversified Corporation

   • Lorraine T. Daigle, Ann C. Smith

   Pages 241-249

6. Risk Perception of Technologies: The Perspective of Similar Groups in Portugal and the United States

   • M. Peter Hoefer, S. Basheer Ahmed, Elayn Bernay, Colin Dusaire

   Pages 251-258

7. Policy Lessons from Risk Communications Practice

   • Rob Coppock

   Pages 259-262

8. History of the Impurities Policy: Risk Assessment for Food and Color Additives

   • L. Robert Lake, Kennon M. Smith

   Pages 263-270

9. Establishing a Threshold of Regulation

   • Alan M. Rulis

   Pages 271-278

10. The Use of Pharmacokinetics in Food Safety Evaluation

    • Robert J. Scheuplein

    Pages 279-285

11. Consideration of Cell Proliferation and Adduct Formation as Parameters Affecting Risk Outcome

    • Ronald J. Lorentzen, Robert N. Brown

    Pages 287-295

12. Global Risk Assessment

    • Michael H. Tiller

    Pages 297-306

13. Cost Benefit and Environmental Risk Aspects in the Context of European Air Pollution Control Strategies

    • Otto Rentz, Thomas Morgenstern, Georg Schons

    Pages 307-315

14. Health Effects of Occupational Exposures of Welders: Multicenter Study Using a Uniform Core Protocol

    • R. M. Stern, F. LaFerla, F. Gyntelberg

    Pages 317-320

15. Comparative Risk Assessment of Transportation of Hazardous Materials in Urban Areas

    • Ashok B. Boghani, Krishna S. Mudan

    Pages 321-332

16. Drinking-Age Laws: An Evaluation Synthesis of Their Impact on Highway Safety

    • Thomas Laetz, Roy Jones, Phil Travers

    Pages 333-340

17. Fatality Incidence Stratified by Driver Behavior: An Exploratory Analysis with FARS Data

    • James S. Licholat, Richard C. Schwing

    Pages 341-351

18. An Assessment of the Risks of Stratospheric Modification

    • John S. Hoffman, John B. Wells

    Pages 353-356

19. Quality Assurance in Risk Models for Regulatory Decision Making

    • Geraldine V. Cox

    Pages 357-370

20. Risk Assessment Issues in Implementing Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Legislation

    • Michael H. Shapiro

    Pages 371-378

The growing perception of the public and politicians that life is extremely risky has led to a dramatic and increasing interest in risk analysis. The risks may be very diverse­ as demonstrated by the range of subjects covered at the annual meetings of the Society for Risk Analysis. There is a need to pause and see how well the present approaches are serving the nation. The theme, "Setting National Priorities," which was chosen for the 1987 SRA Annual Meeting, reflects the concern that in dealing with individual kinds of risks, society may be more concerned with the trees than the forest. It is surprising how little attention is being given to the holistic aspects of risk. Who, for instance, is responsible for a national strategy to manage the reduction of health or other risks? Individual agencies have the responsibility for specific patterns of exposure, but these are not integrated and balanced to determine how the nation as a whole can obtain the greatest benefit for the very large investment which is made in risk-related research and analysis.

• assessment
• health
• risk analysis
• risk assessment
• ecotoxicology

• Shell Oil Company, Houston, USA

  James J. Bonin, Donald E. Stevenson

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