Risk Sciences International (RSI) is pleased to announce in collaboration with the Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Resources (OCCIAR), the public release of “Best Practices for Consideration of the Effects of Climate Change in Project-Level Assessments”.   The Best Practices document is available at RSI, CONTACT US HERE for a copy. The authoring team…

Engineers Canada has retained Risk Sciences International’s (RSI) Climate Group to develop training course modules and to deliver on-line training to Professional Engineers seeking to achieve their Infrastructure Resilience Professional (IRP) certification. Recognizing that not all candidates seeking their IRP can attend workshops and courses by travel to in-person training events, Engineers Canada has established…

IARC recently published a volume on quantitative bias modelling: Bias assessment in case–control and cohort studies for hazard identification (IARC Scientific Publication No. 171). We are pleased to see inclusion of some of the work RSI’s Drs Franco Momoli and Daniel Krewski conducted for the INTERPHONE and MOBI-Kids studies of cell phones, radiofrequencies, and brain…

Adverse effects of drugs among the elderly should be given special attention when considering a pharmacological intervention. Two recent papers using large electronic health records have explored the impact of drugs with anticholinergic properties. The first, “Associations between Anticholinergic Burden and Adverse Health Outcomes in Parkinson Disease” view here used a HealthFacts database (Cerner Corporation, Kansas…

RSI is pleased to announce that Norman Shippee recently joined the team as a Climate and Applications Specialist. Dr. Shippee earned his PhD at the University of Victoria. He is an experienced researcher who has focused on establishing stakeholder-defined storm metrics to facilitate safe operations in the marine transportation field. Dr. Shippee has previously provided…

Following up on the recommendations put forth by the Expert Management Panel on River Flood Mitigation, the Environmental and Safety Management (ESM) and Water Resources (WS) business units of the City of Calgary are currently assessing how to best develop a suite of watershed-scale climate models to capture various weather event scenarios that may affect the…

RSI experts Jennifer Go and Daniel Krewski, were recently invited to present a paper on maternal and child environmental heath during a global, virtual workshop originating in Foshan, Guangdong, China.

RSI’s Emma Hartnett has been selected to be part of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) Roster of Experts for a term of 5 years (2018 to 2022). JEMRA is an international scientific expert group that is administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and…

RSI is pleased to announce that Roger Rempel has joined us as the Director of the RSI Climate Group. Roger is a senior environmental engineer and certified Infrastructure Resilience Professional (IRP) with over 25 years of experience in environmental assessment, climate change vulnerability assessment, quantitative risk assessment, environmental systems modeling and public consultation. He has…

Risk Sciences International CEO, Greg Paoli and RSI senior experts Emma Hartnett and Paul Price, have co-authored a new peer-reviewed publication highlighting the critical role of probabilistic exposure assessments (PEAs) in protecting public health. Supported by the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IAFNS), the study demonstrates how PEAs provide a more…