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 performs risk estimation across a range of domains—from chemical exposure to system failure probability. Its teams use validated models, peer-reviewed parameters, and uncertainty characterization to deliver clear and actionable risk metrics. RSI ensures that estimates are traceable and appropriately qualified for the intended decision-making context.

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.

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 types of data, imperfect data and missing knowledge. Clients need practical solutions that are both fit-for-purpose and scientifically credible.

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.

Animal health is central to food security, public health, and environmental sustainability. The health of livestock, poultry, aquaculture species, and companion animals influences not only agricultural productivity but also zoonotic disease risks, trade dynamics, and the stability of food systems worldwide. Outbreaks of animal disease — whether highly pathogenic avian influenza, swine fever, or parasitic…

Pressure vessels — including boilers, storage tanks, and industrial process equipment — are indispensable to modern industry but carry inherent risks if improperly designed, maintained, or operated. Failures can result in catastrophic explosions, toxic releases, or widespread service disruptions, with serious consequences for worker safety, public health, and infrastructure resilience. Regulation of pressure vessels is…

RSI conducts vulnerability and capacity assessments using a mix of quantitative indicators and qualitative inputs. It emphasizes local knowledge and stakeholder engagement, particularly in climate adaptation and health equity contexts. RSI’s integrated approach ensures findings are used to inform practical and just resilience-building strategies.

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) engaged Risk Sciences International to provide strategic advisory services aimed at enhancing its regulatory compliance model through risk-based methodologies. FCAC’s objective was to explore new approaches that would integrate digital tools and data-driven strategies into its compliance activities, in line with its strategic goal of strengthening consumer protection in financial markets.

RSI helps clients convey uncertainty in ways that are honest yet comprehensible. It uses visual tools, framing guidance, and scenario explanations to prevent misinterpretation. RSI supports regulators, scientists, and policymakers in maintaining credibility while addressing the real limits of knowledge and prediction in risk domains.