Risk-management decisions should consider the benefits and costs of alternative policies. When combined with the insight provided by risk assessments, such benefit and cost information can yield the fairest level of public health, environmental and economic protection. Risk-management decisions should encourage the development and use of new knowledge and insight. Policies should be designed so that they provide incentives for new scientific knowledge and social, ethical and legal insight. Such incentives will continuously improve the quality of risk-based decisions.
Implementation strategies are a key element of risk management.
These strategies should include non-regulatory approaches.