Risk Assessment

CTEH^® provides a full range of risk management planning services. CTEH^® is well suited to helping clients develop sound and workable risk management plans. Our staff has extensive experience in combustion permitting and in emergency response to chemical spills and fires which contribute added expertise to the off-site consequence analysis phase of the risk management planning process. Whether a facility desires to minimize cost or promote regional consistency through the use of the off-site consequence analysis look-up tables, or more accurately depict the distances to toxic endpoint through application of models (e.g., ALOHA, SLAB), CTEH^® has the expertise to complete the project.

Project Planning

A typical work task structure for a risk management planning project may take the following form:

• Gather Data and Information
• Determine Presence of Covered Process
• Specify Worst Case Release
• Determine Distance to Endpoint (either Look-up Tables or modeling)
• Determine Program Applicability
• Complete Alternative Analysis (either Look-up Tables or modeling)
• Review and Revise Accident Prevention Program (if necessary)
• Review and Revise Emergency Response Plan (if necessary)
• Coordinate Interaction with LEPC
• Prepare Press Release and Other Risk Communication Tools
• Prepare Risk Management Plan
• File Risk Management Plan

Risk Assessment Experience

• CERCLA/RCRA
• Cost Recovery/Cost Allocation
• Expert Witness
• Deterministic & Probabilistic Risk Assessment
• Review and Critique of Risk Assessments
• Epidemiological Studies
• Exposure Studies – Design and Implementation
• Bioavailability Studies
• Food, drug, personal care product safety, product contamination, etc
• Ecological Risk Assessments
• Reference Dose Development
• Carcinogen Risk Assessment
• Non-Carcinogen Hazard Assessment
• Base-Response Modeling
• California Proposition 65
• Mechanistic Relevance to Human Health
• Combustion Risk Assessment
• Toxicological Reviews
• Litigation Support