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Acceptable risk - WHO
2001 World Health Organization (WHO). Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and Health. Edited byLorna Fewtrell and Jamie Bartram. Published by IWA Publishing, London, UK. ISBN: 1 900222 28 010 Acceptable riskPaul R. Hunter and Lorna FewtrellThe notion that there is some level of risk that everyone will find Acceptable is adifficult idea to reconcile and yet, without such a baseline, how can it ever bepossible to set guideline values and standards, given that life can never be risk-free? Since zero risk is completely unachievable, this chapter outlines some ofthe problems of achieving a measure of Acceptable risk by examining anumber of standpoints from which the problem can be INTRODUCTIONA number of chapters within this book examine the question of what is risk andhow we define it. Risk is generally taken to be the probability of injury, disease,or death under specific circumstances. However, this objective measure of riskdoes not tell the whole story and, in determining acceptability of any particularrisk, perceived risk is likely to play a large Quality: Guidelines, Standards and HealthThe following is a list of standpoints that could be used as a basis fordetermining when a risk is Acceptable or, perhaps, tolerable.
Acceptable risk 211 If an informed choice element is factored into such an approach (which is the case in the examples outlined above) such an approach may provide a …
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