Reporting on Risk Assessment:  A Journalist's Handbook on Environmental Risk Assessment Produced by Foundation for American Communications and National Sea Grant College Program, Chapters 1-3

Risk Assessment Information Information System (RAIS): What is Risk Assessment?

Risk Assessment Overview Diagram:

Risk Assessment Glossary

Reference Readings:

Risk Assessment Tutorial

Chemical Finder Index

Toxicity Profiles

1. Conceptualizing what risk assessment is and is not, and when it is used
2. Identifying the components of the risk assessment process.
3. Understanding how risk is measured
4. Clarifying the role of the environmental health scientist in risk assessment
5. Reviewing controversies, questions and issues related to risk assessment

1. Define the following terms: Relative Risk, Absolute Risk.
2. What does hazard identification involve?
3. Explain how toxicity assessment differs from exposure assessment.
4. How is toxicity typically measured?
5. Describe how toxic effects are characterized
6. How are acute toxic effects estimated? How about chronic toxic effects? 
7. Describe the dose / response relationship
8. What is an LD-50?
9. Does the dose - response relationship apply to cancer cases. If not, how are cancer cases conceptualized in terms of dosage? 
10. Describe the two categories into which chronic toxicity is divided.
11. Describe what LOEL stands for.
12. Describe how non-carcinogenic assessment is conducted?