- Chemical safety
- Food safety
- Air quality
- Drinking water
- Scientific Evidence for Decision‑making
- Methodology Development
- 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 that align with jurisdictional norms and regulatory expectations.
- 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, resilience, resource optimization, resulting in strategic and financial value to the organization and strategic credibility.
- 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 and justify their allocation of effort, attention, and resources and make consistent decisions in response to identified risks.
- 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 enhance decision traceability and reduce reputational and operational risk by enabling consistent application of evidence and logic across thousands—or even millions—of targets of interest to optimize resources.
- 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 increases vulnerability to controversy and backlash. Effective communication meets both the sender’s and audience’s needs, strengthening credibility and trust. But message quality alone is not enough—targeted internal and external dissemination ensures it is heard.
- 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 to decision errors, procedural delays, and internal or stakeholder misalignment. Clients seek credible training that builds foundational and applied risk competencies across operational, regulatory, and leadership levels.
- Multi-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 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.
- 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 performance of their mandate.
- 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 influence on hazards present in food. Clients need to consolidate, evaluate, and interpret the diversity of data and information available from the perspective of safety and risk. The complexity of the food supply makes this process almost impossible without the application of quantitative modelling to describe the relationships in the food chain that determine the risks to the consumer from contaminated food (whether that be microbial or chemical contamination). Clients need to leverage to power of models to explore relationships not readily observable, and to determine cost-effective risk-mitigation options that benefit consumers.
- 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 on consumers. Clients need to understand the contribution of treatment options to set risk asnd safety based health goals for the water supply, or to make cost-effective treatment plant design decisions, that provide an acceptable level of public safety while balancing the potential risks posed by treatment options available to operators.
- 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 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.
- 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 possible. Whether evaluating therapeutic goods, industrial products, or consumer items, clients must identify and quantify hazards, assess risk scenarios, and justify product claims in regulatory, legal, and public domains.
- 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 from failures in equipment, processes, human behavior, or oversight—and are often foreseeable through systematic risk assessment. For organizations responsible for public environments, infrastructure, or service delivery, risk-based safety planning offers a path to pre-empt injury, legal exposure, and crisis escalation.
- 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 processes that are necessary for effective decision-making. Systematic and consistent risk decision-making that supports all the relevant scientific evaluations and stakeholder considerations ensures that risk decisions can stand up to scrutiny, and ultimately makes risk-based decision-making more efficient.
- 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 intergovernmental alignment, regulatory modernization, cross-sector agreement, or collective action planning, they require convening approaches that hold legitimacy across scientific, operational, and political dimensions. Many of these settings involve divergent priorities, contested authority, or reputational risk—making it essential to identify where interests and exposures intersect through the lens of shared and similar risks.
- 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 the emergency—and the resources required to match it—is critical. Decision support tools and models that can shape both advance planning and real-time response, ultimately determining the scope of impact and the speed of recovery, to protect people, property, and the environment.
- 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 threaten continuity and trust. Resilient systems require proactive identification of weak links and mitigation options.
- Risk-informed Institutional Planning
Strategic foresight, also referred to as visioning, informed by risk science enables institutional executive leadership and boards to anticipate future conditions, plan under uncertainty, and navigate long-term transformations. Clients seek ways to integrate foresight into governance, opportunities, and system design to enhance resilience and credibility.
- Daniel Krewski
Daniel Krewski began his career in the federal government of Canada, focusing on programs within Health Canada, particularly in food safety and environmental health. Trained in mathematics, statistics, and biostatistics, his multidisciplinary background reflects the complex nature of risk science. He later transitioned to academia, founding the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa. There, he developed new methodologies and collaborated internationally. In 2006, he co-founded Risk Sciences International, aiming to provide expert advice on diverse risk issues. His contributions have been instrumental in shaping risk assessment frameworks used by organizations like Health Canada and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2023, Dr. Krewski passed the CEO's baton to Greg Paoli; he remains active as RSI Chief Risk Scientist.
