How the Risk Commission Evolved from the Red Book
The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management took up many risk-related challenges, but the Commission's most important focus was on how risk assessment fits into the larger risk management decision-making process. Misinterpretation of the National Research Council's (NRC's) 1983 report Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, known as the Red Book, had set up a variety of debates on the functional dichotomy of risk assessment versus management; the Commission sought to show how the former is a component of the latter, providing input to (but not dictating) decisions about the best ways to reduce or eliminate risks to human health or the environment. Red BookPresidential Commissionrisk assessmentrisk management.
Keywords: Presidential Commission; Red Book; risk assessment; risk management
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: HealthRisk Strategies, Washington, DC, USA
Publication date: 01 September 2003
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