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Understanding methods

Structured stakeholder input collection

RSI designs and facilitates structured engagement processes to inform its Understanding Risk work. This includes customized survey instruments, expert panels, and moderated forums. RSI emphasizes respectful engagement, documented responses, and clear pathways by which stakeholder input shapes outputs—ensuring both credibility and legitimacy in results.
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Preparedness planning

RSI supports preparedness planning by conducting risk assessments, designing exercises, and integrating cross-sector inputs. Its planners work across jurisdictions and sectors to ensure that plans are relevant, operational, and supported. RSI’s focus on evidence-based scenarios and actionable protocols strengthens readiness and resilience.
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Workshop facilitation for uncertainty characterization

RSI convenes and facilitates workshops to clarify and document uncertainty across risk domains. Participants are guided through structured elicitation, evidence ranking, and discussion of implications. RSI integrates these findings into its models, reports, and stakeholder messaging, ensuring that limitations are appropriately recognized and contextualized.
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Qualitative risk synthesis

RSI employs qualitative synthesis when integrating stakeholder perspectives, expert panels, or case history findings into its risk frameworks. The firm uses logic models, evidence tables, and deliberative processes to structure non-quantitative inputs. This expands the evidence base for decision-making, especially where formal data alone is insufficient.
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Internal communications training

RSI delivers internal communications training as part of capacity building in regulatory and emergency sectors. The firm focuses on message clarity, organizational alignment, and delivery under pressure. RSI’s training combines scenario-based practice with structured feedback to improve performance in high-stakes settings.
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Risk framing

RSI works with clients to frame risk questions clearly and strategically, ensuring alignment between assessment methods and policy goals. The firm draws on behavioral science, stakeholder mapping, and scenario development to test framing assumptions. This enhances both the uptake and the usefulness of risk outputs.
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Chemical engineering

RSI incorporates chemical engineering insight into its risk evaluations involving industrial processes, emissions, or mitigation technologies. This expertise supports mechanistic exposure modeling, fault tree analysis, and scenario construction. RSI’s ability to contextualize engineering data within policy, safety, and environmental frameworks makes this method particularly useful for clients navigating both technical risk and public accountability.
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Participatory risk assessment

RSI designs and facilitates participatory risk assessments that balance technical rigor with lived experience. It employs methods such as community workshops, co-design mapping, and structured deliberation. RSI ensures that local knowledge informs risk prioritization and that stakeholder concerns are reflected in actionable outcomes, especially in environmental health and climate resilience contexts.
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Decision pathways under uncertainty

RSI develops decision pathways that combine scenario analysis, trigger points, and stakeholder expectations. Its tools help clients remain nimble while maintaining clarity about when and how decisions will shift. RSI ensures these pathways are supported by documentation, monitoring systems, and shared understanding.
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Threshold development

RSI supports clients in developing or revising thresholds used in regulation, screening, or monitoring. It combines data modeling, stakeholder input, and expert judgment to define points that are both scientifically grounded and operationally feasible. RSI documents the rationale and implications of threshold choices to support implementation.
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