Risk Assessment & Toxicology

Toxicology consulting is the practice of evaluating the potential for chemical exposures to affect human and environmental health and welfare.

Overview

SLR professionals identify, acquire, and utilise the most up-to-date scientific information to assess intrinsic hazards of chemicals, exposures to these chemicals, and their corresponding risk to the public workers, and the environment.

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Risk Assessment & Toxicology Services

  • Our services include
    • Detailed knowledge of current regulations, guidance, and underlying science
    • Clear understanding of our client’s goals and tailoring a scope to meet them
    • Conducting agency interaction and negotiation
    • Providing robust, pragmatic, and technically defensible human health and ecological risk assessment affording cost effective solutions
    • Development and/or assessment of health-based guidelines for chemicals
    • Litigation support in toxicological matters
    • Hazardous substance and dangerous goods classification for mining concentrates, coal, and other related products.

Risk Assessment & Toxicology Projects

  • Project

    North America

    Multiple confidential clients

    Built Environment

    Evaluating AFFF options & developing foam management best practices

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  • Project

    Wellington, New Zealand

    Mott MacDonald (for Wellington Water)

    Infrastructure

    Contaminated soil and groundwater management for wastewater pipeline upgrades

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    Saskatchewan, Canada

    City of Regina

    Built Environment

    Former railyard renewal project assessment program

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    Cambridgeshire, UK

    Howard Sawston Ltd

    Built Environment

    Wider site area (Phase 1) Unity Campus Sawston

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    Merced, California, USA

    Sheppard Mullin

    Finance

    Merced Distribution Centre

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    Victoria, Australia

    Environment Protection Authority of Victoria

    Government & Communities

    Expert review of toxicity in air for the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria

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  • Project

    Multiple Locations, Canada

    Health Canada

    Built Environment

    Scientific support for Health Canada with emerging chemicals

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  • Project

    Portland, Oregon, USA

    Industrial Client

    Manufacturing & Industry

    Remedial Iinvestigation and risk assessment at an industrial site

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  • Project

    Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand

    Confidential

    Built Environment

    Asbestos in Soil Management

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    British Columbia, Canada

    Public Services and Procurement Canada on behalf of Transport Canada

    Built Environment

    Victoria Middle Harbour remediation and rejuvenation project

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    Sutherlin, Oregon, USA

    Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

    Mining & Minerals

    Red Rock Road probabilistic risk assessment

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    Hamilton, New Zealand

    Bloxam Burnett & Olliver (BBO)

    Built Environment

    Managing an Unexpected Discovery of Highly Contaminated Soil

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    British Columbia, Canada

    Confidential

    Power, Renewables & Energy

    Upland and foreshore remediation in a marine environment

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  • Project

    Queensland, Australia

    City of Moreton Bay

    Manufacturing & Industry

    Narangba Innovation Precinct and Environs Environmental Health Impact Investigations

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  • Project

    Multiple Locations, Canada

    A Canadian Federal Department

    Built Environment

    COVID‐19 in the workplace: return to workplace risk assessment

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  • Project

    Australia

    Confidential

    Built Environment

    Foam evaluation: Comparative persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity

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    Saskatchewan, Canada

    Confidential

    Manufacturing & Industry

    Consumer packaged goods environmental studies

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    Melbourne, Australia

    National Health and Medical Research Council

    Government & Communities

    Evidence evaluations for Australian drinking water guidelines

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  • Project

    Multiple Locations, Canada

    Department of National Defence (DND)

    Built Environment

    Water source protection at various military establishments across Canada

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  • Project

    Australia

    Confidential

    Manufacturing & Industry

    PFAS fingerprinting and source apportionment

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