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Soil and Groundwater Risk Assessment
The Model Procedures for the Management of Land Contamination sets out three stages in managing risks from pollutant linkages. The first stage is risk assessment and is key to identifying the pollutant linkages causing unacceptable risk. This course presents the key stages to soil and groundwater risk assessment. It underpins risk based management of soil and groundwater contamination and also informs sustainable management solutions.
The course consists of 12 modules and two assessments. The first assessment is set after module 1 and the second on completion of all the modules. Module 1 consists of a video and recommended reading list, with the remaining modules containing a video and further reading options.
- Module 1 Introduction to Soil and Groundwater Risk Assessment
- Module 2 Problem Formulation and the Conceptual Site Model
- Module 3 Tier 1 Screening – Generic Quantitative Risk Assessment
- Module 4 Tier 2 – Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment
- Module 5 Human Health QRA – Exposure Modelling
- Module 6 Human Health QRA – Toxicity Assessment and Risk Characterisation
- Module 7 Ecological Risk Assessment
- Module 8 Water Resources Risk Assessment
- Module 9 Assessing Uncertainty
- Module 10 Risk Evaluation
- Module 11 Risk Management Strategies
- Module 12 Verification
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand why it is important to carry out a risk assessment when assessing soil and groundwater contamination
- Describe how to formulate the problem and how to develop a conceptual site model
- Understand why we have screening levels and how they should be used
- Understand the principles behind human health quantitative risk assessment
- Understand the principles behind ecological and water resources risk assessment
- Understand the importance of assessing uncertainty when evaluating risks and developing risk management strategies
- Demonstrate that the risk has been reduced