Assessment of health risk for the population

The effects of the environment upon the health of the human population, including industrial operations, are complex and multifaceted. Assessment of health risk to the population is an analytical instrument, used to take supervisory measures for reducing the pollution of the environment.

Methodology of health risk assessment is applied:

• For designing, deploying, constructing and exploiting existing and reconstructed industrial facilities, energy lines, transportation items, automotive highways, etc.;
• For designating zones of ecological disaster and emergency conditions, including emergency conditions of natural and technical character;
• For determining the dimensions of sanitary protection zones for industrial facilities of hazard classes 1 and 2, as well as uniform sanitary protection zones for a group of enterprises and industrial affiliations;
• Ranking territories by levels of ecological pollution and health risks for all administrative divisions;
• Supporting various administrative decisions aimed to eliminate or reduce to acceptable levels the health risks for the human population;
• Evaluation of economic efficiency of various options of environmental protection and prevention measures.

Methodology of assessment of health risks to the population:

• Develop techniques and strategies of various regulatory measures for risk reduction;
• Arrange and compare various environmental factors according to the intensity of effect upon the human population;
• Determine the priorities of ecological politics, including politics of health protection for the human population within a territory, especially on the local level;
• Perform first and foremost the regulation of sources and factors of risk which present the greatest threat to the health of the population;
• Qualitatively and quantitatively characterize the remaining risk levels after the application of mitigation measures.

The assessment is based on results of investigation performed by the licensed laboratory accredited according to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and specifications of OHSAS 18001.