New Risks: Issues and Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Risk Management for Controlling Pollution Liability in a Corporate Environment

   • Marvin Feldman, Leland D. Attaway, Robert F. Hahn

   Pages 1-9

3. Corporate Management of Liability Risk

   • Judith E. Selvidge

   Pages 11-13

4. The Independent Auditors’ Assessment and Conveyance of Risk (Preliminary Results)

   • Thomas A. Buchman

   Pages 15-20

5. Strict Liability and Insurance Under Loss Misestimation

   • Rudy Yaksick

   Pages 21-21

6. Comparison of EPA, ILO, and World Bank Guidelines for Risk Identification Assessment, and Management of Chemical Emergencies

   • S. C. Morris, P. D. Moskowitz, V. M. Fthenakis, L. D. Hamilton

   Pages 23-31

7. Decision Analysis in Environmental Risk Management: Applications to Acid Deposition and Air Toxics

   • D. Warner North

   Pages 33-43

8. Causality in Toxicologic Risk Assessment and Risk Management

   • Jerry L. R. Chandler

   Pages 45-53

9. Environmentally Induced Cancer: A Model for Estimating Excess Cancer Risks Based on a Two-Stage Model of Carcinogenesis

   • Josephine Mauskopf

   Pages 55-63

10. Is the One-Hit Model of Carcinogenesis Conservative? Evidence from the National Toxicology Program’s Bioassay Databasea

    • Donna Spiegelman, John C. Bailar III, Edmund A. C. Crouch, Rashid Shaikh

    Pages 65-76

11. Carcinogenicity Versus Acute Toxicity: Is There a Relationship?

    • Bernhard Metzger, Edmund Crouch, Richard Wilson

    Pages 77-85

12. Incorporating More Science Into Cancer Dose-Response Extrapolations

    • Robert L. Sielken Jr.

    Pages 87-94

13. Parameters Involved in Risk Assessment for Environmental Release of Biotechnology Products

    • Pamela J. Bridgen, Elizabeth Anderson

    Pages 95-101

14. Do Genetically Engineered Microorganisms Pose Risks to Ecosystems?

    • P. W. Flanagan

    Pages 103-110

15. Control of Microbial Pathogens in Poultry by Irradiation: Issues Related to Risks and Benefits

    • Ronald Krystynak

    Pages 111-118

16. Exposure Assessment for Sterilized Medical Devices: Implications for Microbiological Risk Analysis

    • Herbert C. Hammond, William C. Dierksheide

    Pages 119-128

17. Risks in New Technologies — Controlling Toxic and Hazardous Gas Releases During Photovoltaic Cell Manufacture

    • P. D. Moskowitz, V. M. Fthenakis, L. D. Hamilton, P. Kalb, J. C. Lee

    Pages 129-134

18. Application of Systems Analysis Techniques to Vulnerability Studies of Complex Installations

    • T. F. Bott, D. F. Cameron

    Pages 135-142

19. Seismic Hazard in the Eastern United States: Bounding the Uncertainty

    • R. K. McGuire, J. C. Stepp, G. R. Toro

    Pages 143-151

20. Thinking the Unthinkable: Preparing for Global Disaster

    • Robin Cantor, Steve Rayner

    Pages 153-158

This volume contains the proceedings of the 1986 annual meeting and conference of the Society for Risk Analysis. It provides a detailed view of both mature disciplines and emerging areas within the fields of health, safety, and environmental risk analysis as they existed in 1986. In selecting and organizing topics for this conference, we sought both (i) to identify and include new ideas and application areas that would be of lasting interest to risk analysts and to users of risk analysis results, and (ii) to include innovative methods and applications in established areas of risk analysis. In the three years since the conference, many of the topics presented there for the first time to a broad risk analysis audience have become well developed-and sometimes hotly debated-areas of applied risk research. Several, such as the public health hazards from indoor air pollutants, radon in the home, high-voltage electric fields, and the AIDS epidemic, have been the subjects of headlines since 1986. Older areas, such as hazardous waste site ranking and remediation, air emissions dispersion modeling and exposure assessment, transportation safety, seismic and nuclear risk assessment, and occupational safety in the chemical industry, have continued to receive new treatments and to benefit from advances in quantitative risk assessment methods, as documented in the theoretical and methodological papers in this volume. A theme of the meeting was the importance of new technologies and the new and uncertain risks that they create.

• AIDS
• Assessment
• Controlling
• metabolism
• pesticide
• production
• screening

• US West Advanced Technologies, Englewood, USA

  Louis A. Cox

• University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

  Paolo F. Ricci

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