title: A model standardized risk assessment protocol for use with hazardous waste sites.
abstract: This paper presents a model standardized risk assessment protocol (SRAP) for use with hazardous waste sites. The proposed SRAP focuses on the degree and patterns of evidence that exist for a significant risk to human populations from exposure to a hazardous waste site. The SRAP was designed with at least four specific goals in mind: to organize the available scientific data on a specific site and to highlight important gaps in this knowledge; to facilitate rational, cost-effective decision making about the best distribution of available manpower and resources; to systematically classify sites roughly according to the level of risk they pose to surrounding human populations; and to promote an improved level of communication among professionals working in the area of waste site management and between decision makers and the local population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Marsh
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Day
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006256:Hazardous Waste / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D012015:Reference Standards; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D006256:Hazardous Waste