Safety Assessment
Safety Assessment is an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the scientific understanding and measurement of chemical hazards as well as chemical exposures, and ultimately the risks associated with them. When assessing the safety of chemicals, we often use and refer to the methods of Human or Environmental Risk Assessment.
Risk = Hazard x Exposure
Professional risk assessors are typically employed by chemical manufacturing companies, consumer product companies, toy manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, government agencies, insurance agencies, consulting firms and any other company or organisation that needs to rely on risk assessment for some or all of its activities. At consumer product companies such as P&G, risk assessors work to ensure the safety of the company's products and manufacturing operations to people (consumers, workers, communities) and to the environment.
The methodologies P&G employs have evolved over a number of years through the work of industry, government and academic scientists. Many have been standardised and have gained broad scientific acceptance, organisational and international boundaries. The publication of safety assessments and related methodologies is a commonly used vehicle for communicating the outcomes of such assessments
Safety (or risk) assessment is also present in the everyday life of every person, and in every profession, even though it may not always be thought of in this way. People in the medical profession, for example, deal with relative risk every day: when they treat a patient with a prescription medication they have to consider side effects and other risk factors; when recommending surgery they have to be reasonably certain that the benefits will outweigh the risks associated with the surgery.
Professional risk assessors are typically employed by chemical manufacturing companies, consumer product companies, toy manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, government agencies, insurance agencies, consulting firms and any other company or organisation that needs to rely on risk assessment for some or all of its activities. At consumer product companies such as P&G, risk assessors work to ensure the safety of the company's products and manufacturing operations to people (consumers, workers, communities) and to the environment.
The methodologies P&G employs have evolved over a number of years through the work of industry, government and academic scientists. Many have been standardised and have gained broad scientific acceptance, organisational and international boundaries. The publication of safety assessments and related methodologies is a commonly used vehicle for communicating the outcomes of such assessments
Safety (or risk) assessment is also present in the everyday life of every person, and in every profession, even though it may not always be thought of in this way. People in the medical profession, for example, deal with relative risk every day: when they treat a patient with a prescription medication they have to consider side effects and other risk factors; when recommending surgery they have to be reasonably certain that the benefits will outweigh the risks associated with the surgery.
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