HE0710 : Risk Analysis in Food

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.
This short course pulls together the basic principles of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. It is a generic overview with some focus on food safety from an international perspective, and serves as a contextual primer for those interested in or involved with a broad range of risk analysis activities, regardless of application.
Further, this course will also discuss the risk analysis, risk analysis model, and risk analysis tasks; the alternative to risk analysis, internet resources, and risk analysis library; the risk assessment; the risk managers’ role in assessment; the risk assessment questions, risk assessment answers and risk assessors’ toolbox; the criteria based tanking tools and probabilistic scenario analysis; the sensitivity analysis and what makes a good risk assessment; the risk management and risk management models; the risk assessment, risk management options and risk management decision-making principles; the communication and what drives risk communication and the factors affecting outrage; avoiding the misunderstanding risk and a brief history of risk communication; and the risk communication tasks, internal risk communications, external risk communication and subtleties of language.