5. (20) Hypothetical case: Georgia Southern authorities have heard complaints th

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5. (20) Hypothetical case: Georgia Southern authorities have heard complaints that Lake Ruby (on campus) may be contaminated with a toxic pollutant. There is a high concern that pollution may affect the food quality served in the Lakeside Dining Commons located next to the pond. It is believed that the source of contamination is the Health Service building next to the pond. You are hired as part of a team to do a risk assessment on Lake Ruby. After having preliminary meetings with your team you are assigned to perform the first step of the EPA baseline risk assessment process. This step consists of doing a hazard identification. In a short paragraph (250-300 words), briefly explain what course of action would you follow to perform the first step of the risk assessment process. In other words, what will you do to determine if there is an actual contamination hazard in Lake Ruby that will affect the Lakeside Dinning Commons?

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) puts into use the risk assessments process to describe the character and extent of health risks to human beings, animals etc from the chemical pollutants that may be present in the environment.

Risk assessment procedure generally begins with the procedure of collecting information on the future behavior of the chemical pollutants present in the environment as risk evaluator assesses the rate of recurrence and extent of human and ecological exposures that may take place as an outcome of getting in touch with the chemical pollutants.

This assessment of revelation is then put together with statistics on the inherent toxicity of the chemical to foresee the possibility, character and extent of the unpleasant health consequences that may take place. Risk evaluators often have to make approximation and make use of judgment while performing the risk estimations and as a result all risk estimates are tentative and doubtful to a certain extent.

Risk administrators often make use of this kind of information to facilitate them to make a decision on how to guard humans and environment from chemical pollutants which are present in the environment.

Thus it necessitates to build an effective risk assessment process which generally entails researchers to recognize and collect valuable information’s to develop a more sophisticated risk measurement which in turn may necessitate the risk evaluators and administrators to further purify the risk evaluation process through additional information supporting fresh supposition and hypothesis.

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