Industrial maintenanceoperations involve various occupational risks. Despite the accidents that have occurred, there has not been any task-based risk assessment tool for companies. A study was carried out with the aim of defining the requirements for a task-based risk assessment tool for industrial maintenance. The study charted risks on sites, the occurrence and type of severe and fatal accide...

There has been a rapid expansion of the professional literature in risk assessment with sexual offenders over the past 20 years. However, recent professional experience suggests that risk assessment reports often fail to be as relevant or useful as they might be for judicial decision-makers. Research with large samples of offenders has refined our understanding of identifiable subgroups with di...

the purpose of this study was to conduct a quantitative risk assessment for pah exposure forconsumers at a night market in taiwan. the major methods assessed potential risk under different exposure scenarios based on bap equivalent concentration (bapeq) and incremental lifetime cancer risk (ilcr) models. we performed experimental sampling at a night market from 27 october through 22 november 20...

This working paper series shares research produced as part of the Fukushima Global Communication (FGC) Programme, a research initiative of the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU‐IAS). The FGC Programme applies a human security approach to examine impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident of 11 March, 2011 on people an...

This paper illustrates two formulas for assessing independence risk based on the Bayesian and belief-functions frameworks. These formulas can be used to assess the role of threats to auditor independence as well as the role of threat-mitigating safeguards. Also, these formulas provide a basis for evaluation of an audit firm’s independence risk and a framework to educate stakeholders about the t...

The rapid ageing of the European population poses a challenge for healthcare systems. The incidence of cancers will rise as the number of adults aged 65 years and older increases. Moreover, the health status of individuals in this age group is diverse, and thus requires modern oncology to apply an individualised approach to treatment. There is a clear need to develop and validate health assessm...

HYPOTHESIS Breast cancer gene (BRCA) mutation status affects patients' surgical decisions when genetic cancer risk assessment is offered at the time of breast cancer diagnosis, prior to definitive treatment. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS Outcomes following genetic cancer risk assessment were studied for women newly diagnosed as having breast cancer who were prospectively enrolled in an instituti...