GeoEnviro Training Professionals Inc. (GeoEnviroPro)

We’ll explore the basics of human health and ecological risk assessment as a tool in contaminated sites remediation including conceptual exposure model development, common methods for predicting and measuring exposure and effects, and estimating and interpreting risks. 

Key learning objectives include:

• Understand the importance of the conceptual site model that emerges from the site investigation process to producing a defensible risk assessment
• Understand the risk paradigm and how to develop human and ecological conceptual exposure models
• Understand the basics of chemical toxicity and how it is considered in risk assessment
• Understand how to estimate and measure human and ecological exposure
• Understand how to measure or predict human and ecological effects
• Understand the importance of evaluating assessment uncertainties
•  Understand how to estimate risks and interpret risk estimates