Health risk assessments provide an opportunity to emphasise health promotion and disease prevention for individuals and populations at large. A key component of health risk assessments is the detailed collection of family health history information. This information is helpful in determining risk both for common chronic conditions and more rare diseases as well. While the concept of health risk...

Arup has undertaken security risk assessments for designs and analyses of major infrastructure projects. As part of engineering team efforts, Arup Risk Consulting performs risk assessments and supports decision analyses for threats of explosives and chemical, biological or radiological agents for buildings, urban transit centres, bridges, public bus systems and airport facilities. The work is t...

The statistical power of prospective studies on diet in relation to chronic disease risk can be improved by maximizing the variation in true intake levels actually distinguished--or 'predicted'--by dietary questionnaire assessments collected at baseline. This can be achieved by 1) developing a questionnaire method that provides measurements with the smallest possible random errors, thus maximiz...

Health impact assessment (HIA) has many advocates for its use to identify and optimize the health effects of non-healthcare interventions. It is an assessment of the health effects, positive and negative, of a project, programme, or policy. Expertise developed in the United Kingdom from a realization that health impacts are often overlooked during the planning stages of development projects but...

Although the ®eld of risk assessment has made tremendous advances in the past 20 years, assessments of targeted violence continue to pose a signi®cant challenge to law enforcement, mental health, and other professionals. These speci®c and critical assessments require an innovative approach. The threat assessment model, developed and re®ned by the U.S. Secret Service, provides a useful framework...

This paper describes an application of SERUM, a risk management methodology, to the definition and prioritisation of changes in a network management system at NEC Corporation. SERUM makes use of two risk reduction strategies: (i) performing a business analysis as the means of establishing required system changes and (ii) using an evolutionary delivery mechanism as means to implement those chang...

This research can be seen as an activity in order to contribute towards the validity arguments of assessments. One aspect of validity is that the internal structure of any assessment should be consistent with that of its content domain. However, this notion is predicated upon having some working conception of the construct or content domain. The particular domain in question is that of Critical...

1. In February 2003 the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) hosted a workshop on physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling. The workshop comprised several presentations; these considered the use of PBPK models in risk assessment, requirements for PBPK models and parameters for incorporation of PBPK methods into risk assessment. Th...

PROBLEM To assess resident competence, generalist programs such as emergency medicine (EM), which cover a broad content and skills base, require a substantial number of work-based assessments (WBAs) that integrate qualitative and quantitative data. APPROACH The McMaster Modular Assessment Program (McMAP), implemented in McMaster University's Royal College EM residency program in 2011-2012, is...

Problem statement: Two methods for performance appraisal that are discussed in this study and they are Management By Objective (MBO) and Assessment Centre techniques. Employees are appraised for several reasons, the most important of which is to realize the best use of human resources and to plan for future needs; reward and punishment are secondary. Assessment Centre evaluation or appraisal is...