Chemical and Product Safety
Assessing and managing potential harms from chemicals and products, providing significant improvements to public health and safety
Introduction
Why does Chemical and Product Safety need risk science?
Products purchased in stores provide each of us an array of benefits and daily uses for cleaning, entertainment, nourishment, medication, and beauty. However, the entire lifecycle of chemicals and products, their chemistry and transportation and use, can involve health risks for consumers, workers, or children. Risk science provides perspective for understanding possible harms, as well as insight into safe use and improved decision-making.
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor."
by Albert Einstein
RSI and Chemical and Product Safety
RSI's Motivation
Risk Sciences International has long worked with governments to understand safe levels of chemicals in our environment. Unfortunately, many of the products and chemicals in common use in our society have not been adequately evaluated. Our team has conducted in-depth assessments of short-term and long-term health risks from chemicals and products in common use. Our intention is to provide scientific expertise and advice where it matters most, encouraging informed and responsible stewardship of dangerous chemicals. By providing scientific assessments of potential risks associated with chemicals and chemical products, using the best available techniques in risk science, RSI seeks to ensure technological advancement in a safe and effective manner.
What is our expertise in Chemical and Product Safety?
Collectively, RSI experts and affiliates have in-depth expertise in epidemiology, toxicology, pharmacology, medicine, biostatistics, and risk assessment that provide a solid foundation for characterizing potential risks associated with chemicals in our environment and the products that we use on a daily basis.
Our clients include a wide range of public and private sector organizations, both in Canada and internationally. Our expertise has informed environmental protection activities, chemical and consumer product safety, and pollutant prioritization programs.
Serving You
RSI experts have diverse skill sets, including the following.
Epidemiology: RSI has analyzed large and complex data sets to explore environmental, occupational, food and medical exposures on population health. Recent RSI publications provide systematic reviews as well as a synthesis of epidemiology and toxicology data in the context of population health risk and safety assessment.
Toxicology: RSI has expertise in diverse aspects of toxicology including kinetics, mode of action, adverse outcome pathways, mixtures and interactions, as well as the 21st century toxicity testing paradigm. We have contributed to IUCLID and development of biomonitoring equivalents based on toxicology data and regulatory levels. WE have also conducted dose-response and risk assessments for industry, government, and citizen groups to characterize health risks using state-of-the-art methods and techniques.
Pharmacology: RSI has developed and utilized non-compartmental analysis, population pharmacokinetics and physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models. We can work with your organization to apply contemporary, modern pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic approaches to understand exposure of target tissues.
RSI Sectors
Chemical and Product Safety
RSI staff and affiliated scientists have an extensive background in epidemiology, toxicology, and pharmacology, that can help identify and characterize chemical risk and product safety. Clients include a variety of public and private sector organizations. Epidemiology: RSI has analyzed large and complex data sets to explore environmental, occupational...
Public Health
RSI has extensive experience modelling the risks and consequences associated with infectious disease spread amongst human and animal populations. We have worked with public health organizations in more than 175 countries to safeguard public health and help respond to potential threats to the population. RSI has been involved in a variety of projects...
Food Safety and Defense
Risk Sciences International has a team of internationally recognized experts with over 100 years of combined experience in human health risk assessment, quantitative microbiological risk assessment, and risk assessment methodology. RSI staff and affiliated scientists have a wealth of experience in the development of quantitative risk assessments and...
Climate Change and Adaptation
Risk Sciences International has extensive and unique experience in those key domains required to help organizations adapt to climate change: applied meteorology, engineering climatology, climate science, hydrology, social and behavioral science, risk assessment and management, and IT-based decision-support. RSI provides climate risk assessment and...
Agriculture
Approaches to measuring, characterizing, and managing risks and opportunities in the agricultural sector continue to evolve with time, thanks in part to the use of new technologies in the collection of data, and advancements in agriculture-related science and computing power for risk analysis. RSI’s experience in the Agricultural sector ranges...
Drug Safety and Effectiveness Monitoring
Risk Sciences International has significant experience managing drug safety to help related stakeholders ensure the health and well-being of the public. RSI has experience analyzing a wide variety of drugs across all demographics, using a range of analytic and modeling techniques including physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling. RSI’s...
Public Safety and Security
Risk Sciences International has comprehensive experience working with organizations to enhance public safety and security. Areas of expertise include non-biological hazards often associated with occupational health and safety issues, as well as emergency preparedness activities focusing on natural disaster, disease epidemic, or malicious acts. RSI has...
Urban Risk and Resiliency
The planning, design, and operation of the urban space requires multidisciplinary research and decision support to understand and mitigate the impact of hazards, natural or man-made, malicious or accidental. Risk Sciences International applies its expertise in extreme weather and climate change, infrastructure vulnerability...
Urban Risk and Resiliency
Public Safety and Security
Public Health
Food Safety and Defense
Drug Safety and Effectiveness Monitoring
Climate Change and Adaptation
Chemical and Product Safety
Agriculture
During these unique times during which physical distancing is affecting all aspects of society and our economy, RSI is well prepared. Since its inception, the company has been equipped and trained to deliver results remotely. We use virtual meeting applications extensively, as well as virtual training and webinar software. The nature of risk management is such that all RSI staff have always been a moment's notice away from intervening in urgent matters.
Important: Our sincere thanks go out to all first responders worldwide who have so bravely helped us all to face this unique challenge.
