Risk-Based Regulation

Plant-specific features and modeling assumptions affecting risk, and Use of IPEs for risk-based regulation. 

Murphy, J. A., 1996, Risk-Based Regulation Practical Experience in Using Risk-Related Insights to Solve Regulatory Issues, PSA 96, pp 945-948. 

Amendments to the Law for Evaluation and Regulation of Chemical Substances (Introduction of environmental toxicological test, and risk based regulation)... 

The safety case concept requires that operators demonstrate that the systems and processes they have adopted ensure that their facility is sufficiently safe for all those people who are possibly impacted by their activities (workers and contractors at their facility, passengers and customers, people who live and work in surrounding areas). Most safety case regulations require the demonstration to take the general form of showing that risk is as low as reasonably practicable, or ALARP (or that risk has been reduced so far as practicable - SFAP). Clearly, safety cases are an example of the broad trend towards risk-based regulation (Hood et al. 2004). 

Black, J. and Baldwin, R. (2010) Really Responsive Risk-Based Regulation , Law and Policy, 32 (2) 181-213. 

Contemporary health and safety regulation tends to draw more heavily upon the compliance rather than the deterrence approach UK safety regulators have always prioritised the provision of guidance and advice over prosecution (Carson 1970 1979 Hawkins 2002), and the same can be said of regulators elsewhere (see Chapter 2). The current tendency is for versions of risk-based regulation to be used, whereby enforcement resources are targeted at those regulated actors who are deemed... 

But, as Black acknowledges (2005 546), problems arise when the concerns of the system and the individuals within it conflict. Risk-based regulation is not about moral or normative desert. It aims to systematise... 

J. Black (2005) The Emergence of Risk-based Regulation and the new Public Risk Management in the United Kingdom, Public Law, 512-549. 

H. Rothstetn, P. Irving, T. Walden, and R. Yearsley (2006) The Risks of Risk-Based Regulation Insights from the Environmental Pohcy Domain, Environment International, 32 1056-1065. 

Denham L. Phipps is a research fellow in the NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, the University of Manchester. With a background in hirman factors, his research interests include safety management, work design, risk-based regulation and healthcare professionals fitness to practice. 

Give three examples of risk based regulations and regulatory guidelines since TMI. 

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