Short course/CPD
Risk Assessment and Management
European Training Programme (Risk ASSETs) Foundation Course in Health Risk Assessment
Course date: Please enquire
Course overview
This 5 day short course is suitable for health risk assessors and stakeholders from a wide variety of backgrounds including engineering, toxicology, public health and environmental science
This foundation level course in health risk assessment, developed as part of the Risk Assessment and Management - European Training Programme (Risk ASSETs), provides participants with an understanding of the role and scope of health risk assessment and includes an introduction to toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, environmental monitoring, and risk characterisation and management. The European Commission identified a need for suitably trained and experienced health risk assessors to work in the European Union (EU). Risk assessors are needed to conduct consistent high quality assessments of health risks in accordance with EU policies and legislation, and to serve on European Scientific Committees. In accordance with this, the Risk ASSETs project aims to substantially improve health risk assessment training in Europe.
Participants will be certified that they have completed the Risk ASSETs Foundation course in Health Risk Assessment.
Location
Course fee:
- £1400 - Standard. 20% discount for Cranfield alumni, 10% discount for colleagues of alumni
- £1340 - Professional/trade association discount
- £1280 - Multiple bookings*
*Minimum of five delegates.
Bursaries may be available, contact Dr Gormley for details.
Accommodation fee:
Accommodation is not included in the price.
Speakers
- Dr Raquel Duarte-Davidson, Health Protection Agency (HPA), UK
- Dr Sophie Rocks, Collaborative Centre of Excellence in Understanding and Managing Natural and Environmental Risks (Risk Centre), Cranfield University
- Dr Ruth Bevan, Institute of Environment and Health (IEH), Cranfield University
- Dr Terry Brown, Institute of Environment and Health (IEH), Cranfield University
- Dr Aine Gormley, Collaborative Centre of Excellence in Understanding and Managing Natural and Environmental Risks (Risk Centre), Cranfield University
- Dr David Parsons, Centre for Environmental Risks and Futures (CERF), Cranfield University
- Dr Mick Whelan, Centre for Environmental Risks and Futures (CERF), Cranfield University
- Dr Humberto Perotto-Baldivieso, Centre for Environmental Risks and Futures (CERF), Cranfield University
How to register
To request a place on this course, please complete the online Registration Form.
If you have any queries please contact:
Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL, UK
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Please be aware that short courses/CPD are subject to:
Booking ConditionsAccreditation
The course is accredited by Cranfield University, using material produced by Risk ASSETs (TM) under license from the HPA.
Course description
On successful completion of this course the delegate should be able to:
- understand the wide range of health risks in the environment (e.g. chemical spills, disease outbreaks) and be able to identify and apply appropriate methods of assessing these risks
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the decision process behind the management of these risks and provide justification for the prioritisation of different risk management actions
- recognise the relationship between risk, social, economic, political and technological trends and be able to provide appropriate suggestions for risk communication related to the influencing factors
- analyse and explain the possible consequences in a given situation where health risks will occur and their likely impacts on a population and the potential secondary impacts, and
- review, critique and suggest improvements for other risk assessment and management methodologies within the given scenarios.
The following key topics are covered on the course:
- core competencies for health risk assessors in Europe
- introduction to the role of toxicology in health risk assessment
- introduction to the role of exposure assessment in health risk assessment
- introduction to the role of epidemiology in risk assessment
- conceptual model development
- the partitioning, fate and transport of chemicals in the environment
- introduction to risk characterization
- introduction to environmental monitoring
- introduction to risk management and communication, and
- group work and case study development of a risk assessment.
In doing so, this module will provide a means of improving the capability and capacity of students to perform European-wide risk assessments.
