WHAT IS THE USUAL PROCESS?
Comparative risk projects involve a series of steps: participant and environmental issue selection, technical analysis, public input collection, risk ranking, priority ranking, environmental management planning, etc. The Project Description section of every Scorecard report identifies the process followed in a ranking project. Most projects begin with the formation of some sort of Steering or Public Advisory Committee and Technical Committees (often Human Health, Ecological, and Quality of Life). The next step is the selection of a list of issue areas or environmental problems to be ranked. The Technical Committees often write reports for each of the issues areas and develop risk-based rankings. These reports and rankings are then submitted to a central committee (usually Steering or Public Advisory) and this body creates an integrated ranking of environmental risks. Finally, these ranked risks may be turned into an environmental risk management agenda. While this is the common process
