Practical Risk Assessment Training

• The basics of risk assessment
• What it achieves
• General requirements

Risk, hazard and exposure

• When an SDS, CSR and exposure scenario is needed
• What it should contain
• What it is intended to do (human health and the environment)
• Definition of the terminology - setting the scene for the rest of the day

• Importance of chemistry
• Relevance for computer modelling

Hazard characterisation

• Human health data gathering
• Evaluation of data including suitability of each end point for risk assessment purposes
• Identification of critical studies, dose descriptors, dose response relationships

• Data gathering for environmental fate and effects
• Relevance of endpoints for risk assessment and derivation of PNEC

• Measured vs modelling approach
• Populations that need to be considered (worker, professional user and consumer exposures) and environmental exposures
• Use categories and use descriptors
• Operating conditions and risk management measures (human health and the environment)
• How to undertake risk characterisation for human health and the environment and its significance