Risk assessment and risk communication in chemical exposure

Inherent occupational health assessment during preliminary design stage

“…There is also a demand to make risk assessment exercise even more transparent and intelligible (Ahlberg, 1999). To achieve simple but thorough assessment, different methods are needed for different points of the lifecycle since the amount of information available varies.…”

“…The reason is, majority of the methods are too elaborate, making them unattractive to industries, which prefer a simpler and faster method (Gupta & Edwards, 2002). Nevertheless, occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals has shown considerable decrement during the past few decades due to greater risk perception (Ahlberg, 1999).…”