Risk Sciences International
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Communicating
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communicating risk,
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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.
Risk factors
Communication strategies
Risk-based decision-making
Risk assessments
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.
Food safety
Air quality
Drinking water
Public health
Chemical safety
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)
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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Understanding risk
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Managing risk
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Communicating risk
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| at the policy level | at the policy level | at the policy level |
| at the process level | at the process level | at the process level |
| at the precise level | at the precise level | at the precise level |