RA-RM - Report Summary

Risk assessment and risk management are fundamental components of public decision-making.

There is a need for "functional separation" of these processes, to ensure that the scientific assessment of risk is not biased by other factors.

But separation must not impede necessary interactions between risk assessment and risk management.

What is needed is an interface between risk assessment and risk management that achieves efficient interaction while maintaining scientific integrity.

Conclusions of the RA-RM workshop on ways of improving the interface:

• Key Principles
• Improved Approaches
• Research priorities

To download a two-page leaflet summarising the workshop conclusions, click here

*These pages summarise the workshop conclusions in abbreviated form. For further details please download the full report.