Risk management California

The California Air Resources Board has prepared risk assessments for a number of toxic airborne compounds and mixtures, designated as toxic air contaminants, TACs (Table 16.15). For example, risk assessments for individual compounds such as benzene, benzo[a]pyrene (see Chapter 10), formaldehyde, and vinyl chloride have been carried out, in addition to complex mixtures such as diesel exhaust (California Air Resources Board, 1997a) and environmental tobacco smoke (California Environmental Protection Agency, 1997). These risk assessment documents form the basis for controls imposed as part of the risk management process (e.g., see Seiber, 1996). 

Health and Safety Code, Chap. 6.95, Art. 2, Hazardous Materials Management, State of California, Sacramento, Calif., 1986 Sect. 25531, Risk Management and Prevention Program, 1987. 

Nevada Chemical Accident Prevention Program Delaware Risk Management Program California Accidental Release Prevention Program Contra Costa County (California) Industrial Safety Ordinance... 

Three States— New Jersey, Delaware, and Nevada—have their own risk management plans, and 25 have set up their own version of the OSHA standard. (The California Risk Management and Prevention Program (RMPP) was the first major regulation of its type in the United States but it has since been incorporated into CAL OSHA s process safety standard.)... 

Rousseau, D. M., Libuser, C. (1997) Contingent workers in hi risk environments. California Management Review 39 (2) 103-123. 

Denise M. Rousseau and Carolyn Libuser (1997), Contingent Workers in High Risk Environments, California Management Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 103-123. 

An example of application of enterprise risk management is the University of California. It is a complex organization with several campuses scattered across the state. Each campus has a wide range of educational and support functions. It adopted enterprise risk management as a comprehensive and consistent way to manage risks across the entire organization. The Office of the President estabUsh procedures, tools, and resources to assist units of the organization implement the concept. ... 

The sponsor of the symposium on Metal Waste Management Alternatives is the California Department of Health Services, Alternative Technology Section, Toxic Substances Control Division. The cooperation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pollution Prevention Branch, Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, is acknowledged. 

The states of Washington and California have considered a classification of hazardous chemical waste based on risk and have developed a category of extremely hazardous waste (California, 1999 Mehlhaff et al., 1979 NAS/NRC, 1999b). However, the requirements for treatment and disposal of extremely hazardous waste differ little from those applied to other hazardous waste. Thus, the designation of a class of extremely hazardous waste based on relative hazard has had little effect on waste management and disposal. 

Covello, V. von Winterfeldt, D. Slovic, P. "Risk Communication An Assessment of Literature on Communicating Information About Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks". Draft Preliminary Report to the EPA, Institute of Safety and Systems Management, University of Southern California, January 11, 1986. 

Poorly defined feedback can lead to a decrease in safety. As an incentive to reduce the number of accidents in the California construction industry, for example, workers with the best safety records—as measured by fewest reported incidents— were rewarded [126]. The reward created an incentive to withhold information about small accidents and near misses, and they could not therefore be investigated and the causes eliminated. Under-reporting of incidents created the illusion that the system was becoming safer, when instead risk had merely been muted. The inaccurate risk perception by management led to not taking the necessary control actions to reduce risk. Instead, the reporting of accidents should have been rewarded. 

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Asset Management JPMorgan Chase Bank Barclays Capital Barclays Capital University of South Carolina University of Southern California and EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center JPMorgan Securities Ltd. 

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