Risk Challenge risk assessment workshop

Effective chemical management plays a necessary and crucial role in our journey to a sustainable future, and timely risk assessment is essential to inform sound decisions.  Because generating toxicity data and conducting risk assessments take a long time, are expensive, and require very specific expertise, efficiency can shape the success or failure of programs.  

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While risk assessment is very simple conceptually (i.e., compare exposure to level at which adverse effect are observed), it can be extremely complex in practice, often taking years.  

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The Risk Challenge workshop is designed to provide an interactive experience of conducting risk assessments in hours instead of years.  By becoming familiar with a tiered approach (see figure below) and practicing “Enough precision to make the decision,”* participants can develop skills to arrive at sound chemical management decisions quickly and efficiently.  ​