Risk to Public Health

People living near manufacturing plants, highways, railways and airports are always subject to their negative impact. The pollution of the air and drinking water, noise pollution and electromagnetic radiation all affect the health and well-being of the population, especially children and the elderly. Together these factors create the conditions for higher-than-average numbers of cases of non-communicable diseases. Therefore the assessment of public health risks is an important and necessary tool for assessing and further reducing the negative impact of environmental factors on the population and increasing the sustainability of various companies now and in the long term.

Assessment of Risks to Public Health - CVD

The main tasks of risk assessment are to detect and identify top priority factors negatively affecting public health, assessing potential and real threats that damage health, as well as developing and evaluating the effectiveness of environmental protection and health related activities.  

Risk assessment allows for:

• The formulation of effective management decisions to reduce risks to public health and ensure environmental, sanitary and epidemiological security;
• The elimination and/or reduction of risks that pose the greatest threat to public health;
• The establishment of sanitary security zones, sanitary protection zones, etc.
• Optimization of controls (regulation and monitoring) over risks;
• Compliance with regulatory requirements to reduce negative impact;
• The creation of the image of an environmentally and socially responsible business.

The development and implementation of a Sanitary Protection Zone (SPZ) will effectively reduce risks to public health and lessen (or even prevent) any negative impact from production on the population.

During development:

• The proposed boundary of the SPZ is determined;
• The sufficiency of previously developed measures is determined and if necessary new measures are developed for atmospheric protection and other improvements on the territory of the SPZ;
• Proposals are developed for planning the organization of the territory ensuring the reduction of negative impact by production facilities on residential buildings until the establishment of hygienic norms.

Risk Assissment of Exposure of Chemical that Pollute the Air

• Justify the safety of the location of the production facilities and to choose optimal design solutions;
• Assess the priority of the production areas and sources of the enterprise in accordance to the magnitude of created risks;
• Develop recommendations for the management of public health risks posed by production facilities;

Risk Assessment of Exposure of Pollutants Contained in Water

Our clients use the results of water quality assessment to:

• Determine risk zones in areas containing surface water sources and identify probable sources of pollution and subsequently prioritize said pollutants; 
• Evaluate the effectiveness of technological solutions in their waterworks; 
  
• Substantiate priorities for water protection activities and the identification of risk zones

Risk Assessment of Acoustic Exposure

Environmental managers of industrial enterprises, road construction organizations and transport companies turn to us for risk assessments concerning acoustic exposure. This is necessary for:

• The development of measures to reduce noise pollution from transport and the assessment of their effectiveness;
• The preparation of “Noise Maps” of cities and regions, including risk mapping of areas adjacent to highways, railways, airfields and airports;
  
• Increasing the efficiency of regulations and the organization of land use as well as pricing for new housing construction.

A hazard assessment for exposure to electromagnetic radiation will provide the client with information for:

• The substantiation of the boundaries of sanitary protection zones possessing restricted development of engineered radio wave transmitting devices and facilities;
• The safety related justification for the placement of new sources of electromagnetic radiation (for example, cellular towers and stations);
• The establishment or removal of restrictions on the height of residential buildings located close to sources of electromagnetic radiation;
• The evaluation of the effectiveness of measures taken to reduce levels of electromagnetic radiation and related public health risks.

Public Health Risk Assessment Body

Fee for Our Services

The fee for the services we provide is determined by the number of sources of negative impact, the actual pollutants, the nature of the technological processes, the distance to regulated areas and other factors.

Contact us for an assessment of all existing risks to public health and to build a competent strategy for their management.

Phone: +7 (4852) 75-19-83

E-mail: info@ntc-rik.ru

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For more information on assessing risks to public health, see our articles: 

• Planning of Children's Play Areas Taking into Account the Health Risks to Children from Acoustic Pollution in an Urban Environment
  
• Prospects for evidence-based assessment of health risks on populations in older-developed regions of Russia and the specifics of the choice of ecologically caused morbidity indicators (based on the example of the Yaroslavl Region)
  
• Integration of public health risks in water management planning based on the example of the Kotorosl River
  

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