RSI develops crisis plans across sectors, integrating risk analysis, stakeholder roles, and communication components. The firm tests these plans through table-top exercises and scenario simulations. RSI focuses on both strategic and operational readiness, ensuring that organizations can make decisions under pressure and recover efficiently.

RSI designs custom databases to support modeling, surveillance, and evidence management. It applies principles of data normalization, security, and metadata tagging to ensure databases serve both analytical and operational needs. RSI’s understanding of risk-specific data types allows it to anticipate use cases and design for long-term functionality. This method supports robust, structured understanding of risk evidence.

RSI applies behavioral interpretation to fine-tune risk messages, ensuring they align with how different audiences process uncertainty, trust sources, and act under stress. RSI analysts incorporate framing effects, heuristics, and motivational cues to improve communication outcomes. The firm uses this method to enhance clarity, reduce misinterpretation, and support informed decision-making across sectors.

RSI applies uncertainty factors using internationally accepted guidance while adapting to context-specific needs. Its experts justify factor choices based on data quality and assessment objectives. RSI communicates the implications of these choices clearly, helping clients and regulators understand the conservatism built into derived values and models.

RSI leads preparedness workshops for a range of sectors and jurisdictions, integrating real-world scenarios, response metrics, and after-action reviews. Its facilitation ensures psychological safety, engagement, and actionable outcomes. RSI’s experience with multi-stakeholder settings makes it a trusted facilitator for preparedness capacity building.

RSI offers benchmark dose modeling and reference value derivation as part of its technical modeling and toxicological services. Its staff are experienced with tools like BMDS and PROAST, and apply international best practices for model fitting, critical effect selection, and uncertainty factor justification. RSI documents decisions with transparency, providing clients with not only reference values, but defensible narratives suitable for regulatory or policy use.

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.

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.

RSI facilitates collaborative governance structures in areas like environmental stewardship, emergency preparedness, and infrastructure planning. Its approach emphasizes structured dialogue, power-sharing, and outcome-focused agendas. RSI is particularly skilled at helping diverse actors work toward aligned risk management goals despite differing mandates or capacities.

RSI includes tacit knowledge workshops in its assessments when working with frontline workers, community members, or multi-sectoral collaborators. The firm uses techniques such as journey mapping, moderated storytelling, and artifact elicitation to draw out hidden insights. RSI integrates these insights into decision support tools and qualitative syntheses, enhancing the depth and relevance of its Understanding Risk methods.