Assessing impacts of science and technology: risk and risk assessment weblinks

Discussion of how to communicate risk to the public, with useful graphs and tables on different risk relationships from Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland.

List of sites on statistics and risk from Open University.

American Council on Science and Health publish reports on a range of health risks, critically examining received wisdom.

A site about Radiation and Risk from Idaho University with information about measures of risk and some data on risk comparisons. Much of the dose information is in rem rather than sieverts.

An introduction to air pollution and health risks from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

A 1992 report from the Health and Safety Executive about the tolerability of risk from Nuclear Power stations – quite old but nonetheless interesting.

Last updated: 11 November 2008