Prior to involvement at operational incidents, members are required to be fully trained and conversant with all the elements involved in the decision making process. The FDA Officer in Charge (OIC) of an incident must be able to recognize and appreciate the risks which are present at the incident in order to carry out an effective dynamic risk assessment.The below definition of dynamic risk assessment fit well into FDA guidance.
“The continuous process of identifying hazards, assessing risk, taking action to eliminate or reduce risk, monitoring and reviewing, in the rapidly changing circumstances of an operational …show more content…
For example, current environmental risk assessment methods do not account for differences between maternal and infant PBT chemical exposures. Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals have the potential to accumulate in a woman’s fat tissue over many years prior to pregnancy. PBT chemicals can then be released in human milk, and breastfeeding infants can be exposed to these chemicals at a much higher rate than their mothers were. Babies continue to develop after they are born, and periods of development can set the stage for lifelong health. Therefore, being exposed to PBT chemicals either before or after birth is an important consideration in assessing risk, and it is important to accurately assess early life exposures to these chemicals. In order to fully consider the breastfeeding pathway when assessing lifetime or infant life stage risk from exposures to PBT chemicals, risk assessors need methods to estimate the dose of chemicals an infant receives through breastfeeding based on an average daily maternal