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Title: WORKSHOP ON RISK ASSESSMENT
Accession Number: 00376334
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: This workshop discussed six issues: the meaning of risk assessment require clarification; the federal government needs to focus its risk assessment activities; risk assessment methods and/or results need to be made more accessible to industry and local agencies; improvements in risk assessment methods are needed to better identify and evaluate critical situations; improvements in the reporting of risk assessment results are needed to provide better information to decisionmakers and to the parties affected by their decisions; and accident reporting and other data collection for risk assessment need to be designed and conducted more effectively. Each of these issues are discussed and the recommendations which emerged are presented.
Supplemental Notes: Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. This paper appeared in Transportation Research Special Report No. 197, Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Toward a National Strategy (Volume 2).
Monograph Accession #: 00376315
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Glickman, Theodore SPagination: pp 77-82
Publication Date: 1983
Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Sep 30 1983 12:00AM
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