Health Risk Assessment Health risk assessment is a rapidly growing field that integrates the prediction of air quality impacts from new and existing developments with the latest scientific knowledge about the health effects of air pollution. Health risk assessment techniques are applicable to a range of sources, from domestic to industrial.
Industrial sources cover a wide variety of sources, from power stations to incinerators.
The compounds that can potentially cause health effects can affect different organs in the human body. Laboratory testing is required to determine what organs are affected and the dose-response relationship for each pollutant. Laboratory tests are often carried out on animals and extrapolated to human health effects, introducing uncertainties in the application of these relationships to humans. Katestone Scientific can undertake a health risk assessment for air emissions from any type of industry. Predictions of the ground-level concentrations of pollutants are carried out using recognised regulatory dispersion modelling tools that can account for meteorological data, topography and the influence of nearby buildings.