Pre-Conference Symposium

Risk Assessment—Tools for Taming Uncertainty

Sponsored by the AIHA Risk Assessment Committee

Learn new tools and expand your knowledge!

Thursday, November 6, 8:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. and
Friday, November 7, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

2.0 IH CM points/1.6 CEU/1.6 COC Points

$720 AIH/AIHA member/$815 nonmember by October 10
$795 AIH/AIHA member/$915 nonmember after October 10

A $50 replacement fee will be charged to issue lost documentation including course certificates and letters verifying attendance at PCIH. For full policy information please visit the general information listed at www.PCIH2008.org or contact EduAssistant@aiha.org.

Risk assessment is central to the practice of industrial hygiene. For many of us, the way we use risk assessment and management tools is not well distinguished. When it is, we can become overwhelmed because of the increasing complexity and fragmentation in this area. Many of the recent advances in risk assessment methodology have focused on making the uncertainty of a single risk estimate explicit and, when possible, reducing that uncertainty. While important, this does not help many of us with organizational and societal pressures to approach problems holistically with an eye to integration and an eye to doing more with less.

This symposium will distinguish and show the limits of our traditional risk assessment and management models and paradigms. A bundle of integrated approaches will be presented and then reinforced in exercises. The history and fragmentation of risk assessment will be reviewed. A new perspective will be provided for our bedrock model of anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control. Participants will leave with a fresh perspective on risk assessment and how they can make a greater impact in solving complex problems.

On completion, the participant will be able to:

• Describe and list the current challenges and limitations in occupational and environmental health risk assessment.
• Identify ways in which they can solve existing risk assessment and management challenges from a new holistic perspective.
• Apply concepts from the cutting-edge models, such as cumulative risk assessment and enterprise risk management, in their daily activities.
• Measure risk assessment performance in new and innovative ways.
• Communicate risk inside and outside of the fence line more effectively.

Thursday, November 6

8:00 a.m.-8:15 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions: Setting the Context
Charles Redinger, PhD, MPA, CIH, Redinger & Associates, Inc., Harvard, MA

8:15 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Keynote: Personal Versus Population Risk Assessment: Industrial Hygiene Application Across the Spectrum and Back Again
John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH, 3M Company, St. Paul, MN

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Distinguishing the Current State of Risk Assessment—Interactive Session
Mary O’Reilly, CIH, PhD, CPE, State of New York, Department of Transportation, Binghamton, NY, Fred Boelter, CIH, PE, BCEE, ENVIRON, Park Ridge, IL, and Chris Laszcz-Davis, MS, CIH, REA, The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC, Lafayette, CA

10:20 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
Cumulative Risk Assessment at EPA—An Evolving Science
Lee Hofmann, PhD, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC

11:10 a.m.-Noon
Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Public Policy: Overview From Benzene to the Present
John Mendeloff, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Noon-1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Modeling Framework for Human Exposure Assessment: Current State of the Science and Current State of Affairs—What Is Behind the Numbers?
Michael Jayjock, PhD, The LifeLine Group, Inc., Langhorne, PA

2:15 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Occupational Exposure Limits (Present and Future): A Systematic and Technical Approach
Andrew Maier, PhD, CIH, DABT, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH

3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
BEIs: Their Implications for Health and Business
Mike Morgan, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

4:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Challenges and Opportunities in Professional Judgment and Risk Assessment—What’s in Your Toolbox?
Perry Logan, CIH, 3M Company, St. Paul, MN

5:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Summary

5:10 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Reception

Friday, November 7

8:00 a.m.-8:10 a.m.
Bridge Between Days 1 and 2
Charles Redinger, PhD, MPA, CIH

8:10 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Keynote: Integrating Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis: An Economist’s Perspective on Tools for Decision Making
Cristina Ford McLaughlin, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD

9:00 a.m.-9:40 a.m.
Lessons Learned from the Complex Evaluation of an Organization’s Overall Risk Profile as Part of ERM
Charles J. Sawyer, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Your Skills in New Areas
Deborah Imel Nelson, PhD, CIH, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, and Mary O’Reilly, CIH, PhD, CPE

11:00 a.m.-Noon
International Regulatory Winds of Change: Opportunity or Hardship? Implications of REACH and CEPA for the Occupational Risk Assessor
Susan Arnold, CIH, The LifeLine Group, Inc., Roswell, GA

Noon-1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Assessing Risk, Life Cycle, and Sustainability
Steve Washburn, ENVIRON, Emeryville, CA

2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
The Changing Face of Risk Management: ISO Entering the Mix with ISO 31000
Charles Redinger, PhD, MPA, CIH

3:20 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Risk Communication: Understanding Perception to Overcome Barriers
Susan Arnold, CIH, Deborah Imel Nelson, PhD, CIH, and Mary O’Reilly, CIH, PhD, CPE

4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Summary of New Risk Assessment and Management Models: Filling Your New Toolbox
Fred Boelter, CIH, PE, BCEE, Mary O’Reilly, CIH, PhD, CPE, Deborah Imel Nelson, PhD, CIH, Charles Redinger, PhD, MPA, CIH

4:50 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Closing Comments
Charles Redinger, PhD, MPA, CIH

 

The PCIH is sponsored by AIHA's Academy of Industrial Hygiene