background: new technologies using hazardous materials usually have certain risks. it is more serious when the technology is supposed to be applied in a large scale and become widely used by many people. the objective of this paper was to evaluate the risk of vapor cloud explosion in a hydrogen production process. methods: potential hazards were identified using the conventional hazard identifi...

Quantitative cancer risk assessment is a dynamic field, more closely coupled to rapidly advancing biomedical research than ever before. Six areas of change and growth are identified: expansion from models of cancer initiation to a more complete picture of the total carcinogenic process; trend from curve-fitting to biologically based models; movement from upperbound estimates to best estimates, ...

The occurrence of foodborne disease remains a widespread problem in both the developing and the developed world. A systematic and quantitative evaluation of food safety is important to control the risk of foodborne diseases. World-wide, many initiatives are being taken to develop quantitative risk analysis. However, the quantitative evaluation of food safety in all its aspects is very complex, ...

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All veterinary biologicals licensed in Canada must be shown to be pure, potent, safe and effective. A risk-based approach is used to evaluate the safety of all biologicals, whether produced by conventional methods or by molecular biological techniques. Traditionally, qualitative risk assessment methods have been used for this purpose. More recently, quantitative risk assessment has become avail...

This paper shows how to carry out a quantitative risk assessment, describing how each step in the process is carried out. We use the grade management system at the University of Bergen as a case study, evaluating the risk of wrong grades ending up in the university grade database.

This article discusses the use of quantitative risk assessment (QRA) in decision making regarding the safety of complex technological systems. The insights gained by QRA are compared with those from traditional safety methods and it is argued that the two approaches complement each other. It is argued that peer review is an essential part of the QRA process. The importance of risk-informed rath...

Sunmanr A total of 164 consecutive adults with newly confirmed stage IIIB. IVA or IVB Hodgkin's disease (HD) commenced cychcal combination chemotherapy comprising mustine. vinblastine. prednisolone and procarbazine (MVPP) every 6 weeks (145 patients) or minor variants (19) at St Bartholomew's Hospital between 1968 and 1984. The median follow-up period is 14 years. Complete remission (CR) was ac...