Human Health Risk Assessment

Understanding an industry’s distinct processes, products, and byproducts is essential knowledge for an industrial hygienist when identifying your organization’s health and safety hazards.

By collaborating with clients and sharing the knowledge and experience of our staff, C&IH helps organizations across various industries to manage their workplace hazards.

Exposure assessment involves utilizing multiple methodologies that assess the frequency,
intensity, and duration of an exposure.

C&IH practices state-of-the-art scientific methodologies
to evaluate the nature and extent of an exposure, including:

• Direct exposure measurement
• Exposure modelling
• Exposure simulation
• Statistical analysis
• On-site data collection

The specific methodology applied for an exposure assessment is determined based on your
organization’s objectives, the nature of the exposure, and other project variables that C&IH
helps our clients navigate. When practical, a combination of methodologies can be applied for
greater certainty.

Evaluating the relationship between an established exposure level and the toxicity of an agent is a central aspect of C&IH’s industrial hygiene consulting.

Our board-certified toxicologists research dose-response relationships for inhalation, ingestion, and dermal exposure pathways for a wide range of common and uncommon particles in support of risk assessments for past, present, and future exposures.

Data generated by the exposure assessment and dose-response assessment provide the basis for performing a risk characterization, the output of which defines the probability and potential severity of illness or harm associated with a hazard.

Communicating the magnitude of this risk to your organization’s key decision makers and presenting an analysis of different risk-reduction strategies is a fundamental deliverable for C&IH’s industrial hygiene services.

The process of selecting the most effective risk management strategy involves consideration of several variables that C&IH helps clients navigate

Factors to consider include the costs and benefits of alternative strategies, including their overall effectiveness of improving employee health and the work environment; feasibility of implementing a strategy, potentially related to limitations with technology infrastructure or corporate culture; effective processes for
communication with employees; and post-implementation evaluation to measure the
effectiveness of the selected risk management strategy.