The next Beyond Science and Decisions Workshop XI will be held on February 18-20, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Taft Auditorium of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open reveals important differences between two approaches to measuring social risk: individual-level assessment and neighborhood-level assessment. The ...

A series of reports from the National Research Council (NRC), advances in high-throughput screening, and a deluge of data anticipated from the European Union's program for Registration, Evaluation, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Researchers have uncovered significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to a severe underestimation of climate-related financial losses for businesses and investors.

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cellular biology, -omics technologies, analytical ...

We previously published our experience with the Fracture Risk Calculator (FRC; Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education) within Kaiser Permanente Northern California. 1 Among nearly 95,000 ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

In 2014, the Robotics Industry Association (RIA) published RIA TR R15.306 (Technical Report for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems—Safety Requirements—Task-based Risk Assessment Methodology). The ...