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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• understand the overall structure of risk assessment and exposure control
• understand how to use the risk assessment guidelines and tools
• determine site-specific risk-based guidelines and risk management measures

Description
In cases where the concentration of contaminants in soil and groundwater exceeds the generic regulatory guidelines, the contaminated site can alternatively undergo Risk Assessment in addition to remediation to meet these guidelines. Risk management or exposure control at contaminated sites can be deemed desirable when soil and groundwater remediation is costly and time-consuming or site-specific guidelines are to be developed.

Risk assessment is carried out based on a detailed conceptual site model and the fate and transport of contaminants in soil and groundwater to determine the likelihood of adverse health effects resulting from exposure of receptors to contaminants.

Course Outline

• Overview of the legal framework and tired approach of environmental risk assessment
• Overview of Environmental Site Assessment
• Toxicity and carcinogenicity and applicable databases
• Human health risk assessment framework
• Ecological aspects of risk assessment
• Conceptual Site Models (CSM) and problem formulation
• Introduction to contaminant fate and transport modelling for exposure evaluation
• Dose-response for threshold and non-threshold contaminants
• Risk-based guidelines for remediation
• Introduction to risk management

Who Should Attend
Environmental Engineers • Scientists • Consultants • Industrial Staff • Technicians and Technologists • Regulators Reviewing and Accepting Risk Assessment and Management Applied to the Contaminated Sites 

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Syllabus

Day I

Introduction

Overview of

• Regulatory framework
• Environmental Site Assessment and delineation
• Concept of Source-Pathway-Receptor
• Contaminants and their toxicity
• Human Health Risk Assessment Framework
• The ecological aspect of risk assessment
• Development of Conceptual Site Models (CSM)
• Risk Management

Introduction to Contaminant Fate and Transport in Soil and Groundwater

• Physical, chemical and biological processes
• Transport mechanisms; advection, dispersion and reactions/decay
• Introduction to simplified modelling tools

Conceptual Site Models (CSM)

• Source-Pathway-Receptor characterization
• Exposure pathways
• Example CSMs

Toxicity and Carcinogenicity of Contaminants

• Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
• Threshold and non-threshold contaminants

Delineation Sampling and Analysis for Risk Assessment

• delineation Requirements
• Soil sampling
• Groundwater Sampling

Day II

Human Health Risk Assessment

• Overview of Guidance documents in Alberta
• Planning and Scoping Process
• Overview of HHRA framework
• Problem formulation
• Chemical identification and screening
• Receptor identification and screening
• Exposure pathway identification and screening
• Toxicity Assessment
• Exposure limits
• Toxicity of chemicals with no environmental regulatory exposure limits
• Toxicity of mixtures
• Exposure assessment
• Fate and transport considerations
• Exposure concentrations
• Intake modelling
• Risk characterization
• Uncertainty analysis
• Reporting

Ecological Aspects of Risk Assessment

• Ecological Risk Assessment Framework
• Problem Formulation
• Exposure Assessment
• Toxicity Assessment
• Risk Characterization
• Uncertainty Analysis

Introduction to remediation methods

• In-situ and ex-situ soil remediation
• Groundwater remediation methods

Risk Management and Exposure Control Approach

• RISK MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION
• Interpretation of HHRA results
• Incorporation of results into project design, operation and monitoring
• Incorporation of results into regulatory approval conditions

Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes

Instructor

Edwin Safari, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Edwin is a licensed Professional Engineer by Professional Engineers Ontario and is a sessional lecturer at Physical and Environmental Sciences University of Toronto Scarborough. Edwin is the inventor of Grafta™; a first of its kind unique nano-graphene-based adsorbent for environmental remediation and water and wastewater treatment. He is currently the Vice President Technology of Grafta Nanotech Inc where Grafta™ is being mass produced and commercialized.

Edwin has over 20 years of experience in academe and consulting in Environmental Engineering and Assessment. He has a proven track record of working and managing a variety of Environmental projects ranging from Environmental Site Assessment, Risk Assessment, Impact Assessment, Physical and Contaminant Hydrogeology, Waste Management Planning, Landfill Design, Leachate and Gas Management and Life Cycle Assessment. Edwin has been with EPIC for over five years and has offered Environmental Assessment, Risk Assessment and Remediation courses in various provinces in Canada.