We need to rebuild risk management from the ruins of precaution
Tag: ALARA
The Post-COVID-19 Blueprint (Part 3.2): The Seven Key Steps of Risk Management
Of the 7 key steps in risk management, none were applied in the COVID-19 crisis.
Generations of Farming
Our grandparents worked hard to deliver successful agriculture. What will we leave our children?
ALARA : An alternative policy tool to the precautionary principle
It’s time for the EU to commission a study on the use of the policy tools of ALARA and precaution.
The Possibilist Principle: How Brussels Became a Hazard-based Activist Playground
How did we ever get to the madness of a hazard-based precautionary policy approach? Through those relentless possibilists.
Time to ban coffee? How values dictate our use of precaution
Given that IARC is about to declare coffee as carcinogenic (again), I think we need to play with the fallacy that, on the basis of a mere hazard assessment, we need to act as risk managers and organise a ban on all coffee products!
Risk-based or Hazard-based Regulation
Risk School: Difference between risk-based and hazard -based regulation
The Risk-Monger 