With Stakeholders

With the client, owner, or customer s approval, share the PP, or a portion of it, with the environmental group. 

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Met with stakeholders to discuss the problem and approaches to improve the management of reactive hazards. 

The committee recognizes and appreciates the extensive support of the Army ACWA team and the committee interactions with stakeholders and the Dialogue group, particularly the four members of the Dialogue known as the Citizens Advisory Technical Team (CATT). Members of the CATT attended all open meetings of the committee and shared information and their views with us. I believe our relationship with the sponsor, PMACWA, and his team and support contractors has been effective and constmctive and that the committee has been given the best available information to conduct this evaluation of the three technologies. 

The short-term actions include (1) establishment of a priority list of substances for further evaluation of their role in endocrine disruption monitoring levels of suspect chemicals in food and the environment (2) identification of vulnerable groups of people (such as children) who need to be given special consideration (3) establishment of an international network to enable information exchange and coordination of research and testing and (4) communication with the public and continuing consultation with stakeholders. 

Third, whenever possible, this communication needs to be interactive. In the registration of pesticides, legally mandated deadlines, the complexity of the assessment, the manifold assumptions needed to fully explore methods and their outputs, and the need to protect sensitive business information limits the degree to which stakeholders may always be able to participate interactively. Nevertheless, opportunities for meaningful interaction with stakeholders, especially those that can bring additional data or information to bear and can constructively review the process, will benefit practitioners. 

Risk assessors and decision makers both need to be prepared to communicate risk results in an understandable form to other practitioners (regulatory and registrant), stakeholders, and the public. This is particularly critical in the case of uncertainty in the assessment. Most scientists hired to perform risk assessment are thoroughly trained in their subject matter but less familiar with the demands of public presentation or the essentials of educating at multiple levels. Regulators must provide scientists and decision makers with the support and opportunity to develop skills necessary to effectively communicate with stakeholders and the public. 

Consider with stakeholders the uncertainties in risks, costs and benehts, and the consequences of false positives and false negatives when establishing decision rules. 

The guiding principle of metric development is to have a stable system or process to collect, review, and draw conclusions. All metrics should be developed with stakeholders input taking into account the requirements and needs of the customers. This includes the touch points of the downstream quality processes. Without this input and understanding metrics may be developed within a silo and hold little value, causing both frustration at the leadership as well as the staff level. Without proper... 

The process owner with stakeholders will need to provide a process improvement proposal if the issue or change requires prioritization due to funds or additional resources from the enterprise. The proposal should include, at minimum, the problem and or opportunity statement, impact to the site based on risk, and proposal of an action and/or project, including both cost and resource requirements. 

Applying the understanding developed on surfactants through the Safer Product Labeling Program, the DfE Program worked with stakeholders and the EPA Office of Water to challenge industry to shift their entire product lines to safer surfactants. 

Elected officials, professional planners, the site workforce, local businesses, and the surrounding public all have important stakes in the closure and future uses of the site. Some of the issues the PMCD will have to address with stakeholders are the economic impact of closure, mitigating negative economic impacts, and analyzing options for future land use. Public involvement will be critical to the resolution of these issues, and local governments and residents are likely to have strong feelings and considerable expertise about economic issues and future use. 

Necessary risk studies should be completed as quickly as possible. Before the HRA is completed, the Army should work with the Pueblo stakeholders to decide how the risk of a modified baseline process facility compares with that of a baseline incineration system facility. This will require that the Army increase and improve its communications with stakeholders. Finally, the Army should make safety the number one objective in the construction, systemization, operation, and closure of the Pueblo Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. 

The committee s evaluation of the modified baseline process in Chapter 3 is based on these criteria. Chapter 4 covers safety and risk factors and assesses the Army s interactions with stakeholders concerning the Pueblo site. 

The conceptual abstraction of a policy cycle provides a good level of adaptation when applied to decision processes related to mobility systems. In particular, the incorporation of interaction with stakeholders seems to be possible from the practical point of view as well as theoretically robust. 

During the development of REACH the EU Commission held extensive dialog with stakeholders before and after the proposal was presented. Stakeholders sent over 6000 responses during the REACH Internet consultation and contributed to the REACH Impact Assessment both before and after the launch of the Commission REACH proposal in 2003,75 One of the purposes of the collaboration was to help the EU Commission improve the design and cost effectiveness of the system. 

What types of engagement can be considered Surveys, focus groups and citizens juries are all well-established methods for engaging with stakeholders (Wilsdon et al. 2005). However, we must ensure that the costs are proportionate to the problem. Workshops and visits to key stakeholders may be more appropriate in some circumstances. 

Also, MCDA allows the costs and practicality of meeting a standard to be accommodated in the final decision. This can be achieved by identifying the technological options for mitigating exposure, each of which would be associated with a different standard. They could include not only a do nothing option but also the application of different technologies or assumptions about the benefits that would follow from adopting best practice in some or all industry sectors. This may require stakeholder input to help focus attention on the most feasible abatement options. A preliminary analysis may usefully be shared with stakeholders so that they have an opportunity to comment and provide further information (e.g., to refine assumptions or prompt data collection to reduce uncertainty). 

With these principles in mind, we propose a framework for deriving environmental standards that addresses not only the necessary technical considerations but also the social and economic ones. In particular, establishing an early relationship with stakeholders should make it easier to discuss openly any issues about data requirements or uncertainties identified later in the development of a standard. Within this framework, we argue for a formal approach to identifying a preferred option that optimizes the balance between potentially conflicting scientific, social, and economic factors, especially if the proposals could be contentious or expensive. MCDA is a tool that seems to address this balancing task, in which technical, economic, and social factors all contribute to a final decision. 

Responsible Care is the chemicals industry s global voluntary initiative to improve health, safety, and environmental performance and to communicate with stakeholders about their products and services. Please see www.responsiblecare.org... 

Safety policy goals should be proposed and discussed by the Department of Energy with stakeholder groups early... 

Concern assessment experts of social sciences including economics identify and analyze the issues that individuals or society as a whole link to a certain risk. For this purpose the repertoire of the social sciences such as survey methods, focus groups, econometric analysis, macro-economic modelling, or structured hearings with stakeholders may be used. 

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