Risk Assessment Methodology

Australian Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment

• Participation in the development and promulgation of the Health Risk Assessment Guidelines published in 2002
• Participation in the development and trialling of the 2002 NHMRC Guidelines for Risk Assessment of carcinogens at contaminated sites (benchmark dose and safety factor approach)
• Approaches to the health risk assessment of chemical mixtures
• Biomarkers of exposures and biological effect monitoring (e.g. cytogenetic changes) relating to occupational chemical exposures (solvents, pesticides)
• Use of probabilistic techniques in risk assessment