Risk Assessment Basics

Click on the two bulleted categories below to access resources that provide an overview of human health and ecological risk assessment in the Superfund program. A Risk Assessment Glossary is also available for your reference.

• Databases and Software
• Guidance and Policy

Human Health

• Presenter's Manual For "Superfund Risk Assessment And How You Can Help", A 40-Minute Videotape (PDF) ( 77pp, 772 kb, About PDF)
  
  Learn more about how you can help the EPA conduct reasonable and consistent Superfund risk assessments through this 40-minute video production.
  
  
• A Community Guide To Superfund Risk Assessment--What It's All About And How You Can Help
  In Spanish: De qué se trata la evaluación de los riesgos y cómo nos puede ayudar
  
  
• Superfund Today: Focus on Revisions to Superfund's Risk Assessment Guidance (1999)
  PDF Format (PDF) ( 2 pp, 50 kb, About PDF)
  
  Learn more about EPA's commitment to conduct reasonable and consistent Superfund risk assessments and involve stakeholders in the decision-making process.
  
  
• Superfund Today: Focus on Risk Assessment (1997)
  PDF Format (PDF) ( 6 pp, 181 kb, About PDF)
  
  Learn more about risk assessment and Superfund's risk assessment process for human health.
  
  
• Superfund Today: Focus on Revisions to Superfund's Risk Assessment Guidance (1997)
  PDF Format (PDF) ( 2 pp, 27 kb, About PDF)
  
  Learn more about EPA's commitment to conduct reasonable and consistent Superfund risk assessments and involve stakeholders in the decision-making process.
  
  
• Quick Reference Fact Sheet for Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund. Volume 1. Human Health Evaluation Manual. Part C. (1991)
  
  
• Risk Assessment in Superfund: A Primer (1990)
  
  
• Risk Assessment for Toxic Air Pollutants: A Citizen's Guide (1991)

Ecological

• Ecological Assessment of Superfund Sites: An Overview (1991) "ECO Update, Vol. 1, No. 2"
  
  
• Evaluating the Environment at Superfund Sites
  
  
• Field Studies for Ecological Risk Assessment (1994) "ECO Update, Vol. 2, No. 3"
  
  
• The National Center for Environmental Assessment's Ecological Risk Assessment Program (part of EPA's Office of Research and Development)
  
  Provides an overview of ecological risk assessment and links to resources and guidance.