Risk Assessment and Alternatives Assessment: Comparing Two Methodologies

Risk Assessment and Alternatives Assessment: Comparing Two Methodologies

The selection and use of chemicals and materials with less hazardous profiles reflects a paradigm shift from reliance on risk minimization through exposure controls to hazard avoidance. This article introduces risk assessment and alternatives assessment frameworks in order to clarify a misconception that alternatives assessment is a less effective tool to guide decision making, discusses factor...

Current Established Risk Assessment Methodologies and Tools

The technology behind information systems evolves at an exponential rate, while at the same time becoming more and more ubiquitous. This brings with it an implicit rise in the average complexity of systems as well as the number of external interactions. In order to allow a proper assessment of the security of such (sub)systems, a whole arsenal of methodologies, methods and tools have been devel...

Extreme events: trends and risk assessment methodologies

In this chapter we discuss extreme weather events as they relate to climate adaptation. First, we summarize the state of the science regarding how different kinds of extreme events have been or will be influenced by global warming. Second, we describe the different kinds of tools that exist for extreme event hazard assessment. These include extreme value theory, which allows inference of rare e...

Literature Review of Fire Risk Assessment Methodologies

This paper provides a review of recent work in the area of fire risk assessment and its application. For completeness, the paper covers the following areas: basics of fire risk assessment, types of fire risk assessment methods, and comprehensive fire risk assessment models. The first section provides information on the definition of fire risk, measures of fire risk, acceptable fire risk levels,...

Risk Assessment Methodologies for Soil Threats