Client needs

It's not about our services, it's about your needs;

It's not about us, it's about you.

At Risk Sciences International, our work is anchored in the needs our clients have expressed to us directly. Rather than building our company around what we think we should offer—or what others are offering—we have shaped and continue to grow RSI by listening to what our clients say they actually need. Over the years, working closely with public authorities, industry leaders, and civil society organizations, we have learned that effective understanding, managing, and communicating of risk begins with a clear-eyed view of those needs. The client needs described here are not the product of internal brainstorming, AI-suggestions, or trying to follow the current trends; these needs reflect lived experience, evidence-informed analysis, and a practical understanding of how our clients make difficult decisions in complex environments. This way of working—evidence-based, pro-active, and client-informed—continues to guide everything we do.

The needs that follow are drawn directly from the challenges our clients have brought to us across projects, sectors, and jurisdictions. They reflect not only what clients ask for explicitly, but also what they require in practice to make sound, timely, and defensible decisions under conditions of uncertainty. In articulating these needs, we aim to clarify the foundation on which our services are built—and to make transparent the basis for how we prioritize our work.

In complex, high-stakes environments, decisions must be grounded in scientific evidence that is credible, reproducible, and contextually appropriate. Whether informing policy, guiding operations, supporting regulatory submissions, or withstanding legal, public, and stakeholder scrutiny, well-structured evidence—including clear evidence of safety—strengthens outcomes, enhances legitimacy, and supports system resilience.

Scientific Evidence for Decision‑making

In complex, high-stakes environments, decisions must be grounded in scientific evidence that is credible, reproducible, and contextually appropriate. Whether informing policy, guiding operations, supporting regulatory ...
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Designing the methods that drive defensible decisions

Methodology Development

Organizations often undertake efforts to modernize practices and approaches requiring new methods of using information for new purposess. Methods are needed to deal with new ...
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Building the case that regulators expect and science demands

Regulatory Evidence Preparation

Organizations introducing or modifying regulated products, services, processes, or data practices must not only generate strong evidence, but also present it in formats and narratives ...
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Turning uncertainty into insight, and insight into action

Modeling and Predictive Analytics

Effective modeling and predictive analytics are essential for anticipating risks, evaluating interventions, and informing operational, financial, and policy decisions under uncertainty. Strong models enhance planning, ...
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Helping decision-makers see the risk—and what to do about it

Risk-Based Decision Making

A risk-informed approach enables risk managers to make evidence-based decisions and allocate resources proportionate to the risk posed. Risk-based decision-making enables organizations to plan, explain ...
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From code to consequence—tools that make science usable

Decision Support and Data Analysis Tools

Decisions under uncertainty increasingly depend on custom-built, scientifically grounded software tools that integrate large, dynamic datasets with supporting evidence, models, and business logic. Transparent tools ...
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Framing risk so stakeholders listen, understand, and act

Stakeholder Perception and Communication

In high-risk or high-visibility environments, unclear or inaccessible communication undermines stakeholder confidence and can disrupt operations. Misinformation—or a lack of information—lowers trust, heightens scrutiny, and ...
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Equipping professionals to think, teach, and lead with risk

Risk Education and Training

Informed, risk-literate teams are essential to operational readiness, compliance, and strategic agility. Without a shared understanding of risk concepts and language, organizations face greater exposure ...
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Depth where it counts—science, strategy, and sectoral fluency

Disciplinary Expertise

Organizations often require more than broad frameworks or multiphase support—they may need a single expert to solve a specific problem. Whether the need is for ...
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Sharpening oversight through better process, policy, and risk sense

Regulator Policy, Oversight and Process Optimization

Effective and coherent risk management policies and regulatory oversight processes are essential for an agency's efficient and consistent decision-making, and reinforce public confidence in the ...
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Protecting public health from field to fork

Food Safety Assessment

Ensuring the safety of the food supply relies upon an understanding of the relationships between the components of the supply and their interaction with, and ...
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Measuring what matters in every drop

Water Quality Assessment

Clients need to utilise modeling to examine and understand the components of water treatment in terms of the impact on hazards and the resulting impacts ...
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Safeguarding air quality is a fundamental objective of health agencies the world over. Improving our understanding of air pollutants and health requires robust evidence on exposures among vulnerable and sensitive populations, expert-based evaluation of diverse types of scientific evidence, scientifically defendable approaches to conducting weight of evidence assessments, and quantitative skills for deriving safe exposure levels.

Air Quality Assessment

Safeguarding air quality is a fundamental objective of health agencies the world over. Improving our understanding of air pollutants and health requires robust evidence on ...
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Product Safety Assessment

Organizations responsible for placing products on the market must ensure that these products meet defined safety standards, particularly when human health or environmental exposure is ...
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Protecting people through evidence that goes beyond compliance

Public and Workplace Safety

Preventable harm in workplaces or public spaces can trigger regulatory enforcement, reputational loss, service disruption, or long-term loss of public trust. These harms may stem ...
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Making complex risks manageable, defensible, and transparent

Risk-based Frameworks

Risk-based frameworks ensure decisions are systematic, defensible, and proportionate. Institutionalizing these practices improves organizational integrity, efficiency, and resilience. A risk-based framework provides the structure and ...
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Getting the right people in the room—and the right outcomes out

Risk-framed Convening and Facilitation

Clients seek credible, neutral facilitation of complex, multi-stakeholder processes where risk considerations must be openly surfaced, transparently debated, and constructively resolved. Whether the objective is ...
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Stress-testing systems before the real stress arrives

Emergency Response Risks and Capabilities Assessment

Emergencies test both preparedness and system resilience. To respond effectively, organizations must identify capability and capacity gaps and optimize resource allocation. Understanding the scale of ...
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Finding the hidden weak links—before they break

Supply Chain, Operational and Asset Vulnerabilities

Operational resiliency ensures essential functions continue while navigating risks that may impact performance. Disruption in supply chains, infrastructure, or key operations creates cascading risks that ...
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Bringing the long view of risk into today’s decisions

Risk-informed Institutional Planning

Strategic planning, also referred to as visioning, informed by risk science enables institutional executive leadership and boards to anticipate future conditions, plan under uncertainty, and ...
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