Risk Sciences International

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    Understanding
    Risk

    When
    understanding risk,
    evidence and data
    matter.

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    Managing
    Risk

    When
    managing risk,
    finding solutions requires
    navigation skills.

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    Communicating
    Risk

    When
    communicating risk,
    clear signals lead to
    better decisions.

Risk ™

Understanding, Managing, and Communicating Risk

Risk Sciences International, Inc. (RSI), headquartered in Ottawa (Canada), specializes in understanding, managing, and communicating risks that impact health, personal livelihoods, property, public infrastructure, the environment, regulatory compliance, stakeholder expectations, and broader societal, industrial, and governmental activities.

RSI provides a range of quantitative and qualitative decision-support services.

These services empower RSI's diverse public, private, and civil society clients to make better-informed choices when addressing present or emerging risks. The work is performed by a team of qualified and experienced scientists, engineers, and other skilled professionals who are committed to reducing uncertainty by providing decision-makers with the highest quality evidence and guidance.

For those who need to better understand, manage, or communicate risks, Risk Sciences International provides the necessary evidence, methods, tools, and counsel to make more informed decisions.

The Risk Sciences International toolbox

Tackling risk requires tools, hence the RSI toolbox which is divided into three familiar pillars.
Whether you need to understand, manage, or communicate risk, RSI has experience picking the right method to provide decision support.

Featured tools

Among the tools listed in our three U | M | C pillars above, some stand for being the most often requested.

Pillars | Communicating risk

Communication strategies

Pillars | Understanding risk

Risk factors

Pillars | Understanding risk

Risk assessments

Pillars | Managing risk

Risk-based decision-making

Pillars | Managing risk

Technological solutions

A 60-month sampling of our areas of expertise

Please find below some of the many fields in which RSI has intervened over the past five years (2017-present). Note that these are only some of our sectors among those dating back to 2006. Also note that RSI staff professional experience stretches back into the 1950s.

Featured area of expertise

Air quality

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Public health

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Drinking water

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Chemical safety

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Food safety

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Public transport

and several more...

Some of the actual projects we have worked on

A small sampling of work performed by RSI staff... (in no particular order)

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Methodology

HIV / AIDS

10-year global campaign to raise awareness on the dangers of HIV/AIDS and support the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment

Nuclear power

Scientific advice and content for nuclear power reactor licensing

Governance

Crisis management during critical election cycle of a United Nations agency

Pharmaceutical

Analysis of events and processes that lead to a contraceptive drug recall

Cancer

Production of 'Cancer is...' - a five-part television documentary series on the state of cancer worldwide

Waste

Strategic guidance to an international convention on transboundary waste

Flooding

Communications strategy for a national flood portal designed to make citizens aware of risks to their property if left unprotected or uninsured

Blood services

Conception of a coherent risk management framework to guide decision-making on the delivery of blood services by stakeholders

Smoke

Perception analysis of wildfire smoke to also support revisions of the health messages used in the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI)

Airport

Analysis of major international airport's traffic and logistics patterns and their risks

Assessment platform

Concept development and deployment of an industry-specific, climate resilience platform

Municipal risk

Online municipal risk and return on investment tool

Fluoride

Expert panel organized to provide national guidance on fluoride in drinking water

Manganism

Updating of clinical diagnostic criteria for manganism

Country foods

Organization of national expert forum on country foods

Plasma

Creation of Plasma Risk Management Model related to national immunoglobulin (IVIG) supply

Food safety

Creation of Problem Formulation Framework for multilateral food safety authority

Cognitive decline

Synthesis of evidence regarding the effect of aging on cognitive abilities of physicians

Artificial intelligence

Framework and methodology on transition away from testing chemicals on animals

RSI 3x3 Granularity matrix

A 3x3 Matrix explaining how RSI works from the high level policy level right down to the most precise and granular level, in each of the three cases, across our three pillars: understanding, managing, and communicating risk.

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