RSI applies uncertainty management frameworks tailored to client context and risk type. Its analysts identify epistemic and aleatory uncertainties and embed structured responses within decision processes. RSI ensures that frameworks are well documented, stakeholder-informed, and usable in both technical and public-facing settings.

Air quality is one of the most visible and persistent environmental health concerns worldwide. Poor air quality, whether driven by industrial emissions, transportation, energy production, or natural phenomena such as wildfires, is directly linked to respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease, and premature mortality. Beyond health, degraded air quality undermines economic productivity, reduces quality of life, and…

RSI assists organizations in achieving, auditing, or exceeding risk management standards through policy reviews, process design, and staff training. The firm emphasizes contextual adaptation, ensuring that compliance enhances—not replaces—organizational learning and decision quality. RSI’s expertise also supports internal culture change and capacity building.

To support the evaluation of a new veterinary pharmaceutical product intended for use in bovines, a scientific review was requested of submitted toxicological data related to the active compound LY488756. This compound, proposed under the product name Experior, had been advanced for registration based on its claimed selective action on β3-adrenergic receptors and a lack of mutagenic, carcinogenic, or teratogenic effects. Given its potential entry into the human food supply via meat residues, an independent expert analysis of the submission was deemed necessary to determine its safety.

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 an epidemiologist to review an outbreak model, a graphic designer to produce an infographic, or a skilled facilitator to guide a multi-party discussion, clients value precise disciplinary expertise on demand. In high-stakes or time-sensitive situations, they turn to RSI for direct access to the right expert, not just the right method.

RSI chairs and presents on panel sessions for the Toronto conference, “Building the Next Generation of Canadian Infrastructure: Defining a roadmap for optimizing infrastructure planning, implementation and operation” held on May 15 .  This inaugural conference, hosted by InfoNex, see more here recognizes that the next era of Canadian infrastructure must become more resilient, responsive, integrated…

RSI and Engineers Canada are partnering to offer an online version of the introductory workshop on the PIEVC Protocol for infrastructure climate risk and vulnerability assessment. Online Workshop: Integrating Climate Risk into Infrastructure Development: The PIEVC Protocol April 2, 4, 9, 11, and 16, 2019;  11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST This workshop  will provide participants…

RSI is pleased to be the recipient of funding through the DND IDEaS COVID-19 Challenge. Under the supervision of Emma Hartnett, RSI will be developing a risk-based tool to support public health emergency response planning for COVID-19, and other infectious disease and mass casualty emergencies in the future. The safety and well-being of Canadians are…

RSI was contracted by CBS to assist the Alliance of Blood Operators in the development of a blood-safety oriented risk-based decision-making framework. Why use this framework?  Streamline the process of assessing blood safety risk and make informed blood safety decisions. To access the Framework on the Alliance of Blood Operators site users will need to…