CEN/TR 15584:2007

Foreword
1 Summary
2 Scope
3 Normative references
4 Terms and definitions
5 Introduction
  5.1 Hazard, Risk and Communication
  5.2 Risk Assessment and the Precautionary Principle
6 Source - Pathway - Receptor
7 A framework for environmental risk assessment and management
  7.1 Problem formulation
  7.2 Key stages of environmental risk assessment
  7.3 The social aspects of risk
  7.4 Risk screening and prioritisation
  7.5 Quantification and dealing with uncertainty
  7.6 Evaluating the significance of a risk
  7.7 Options appraisal and decision-making
  7.8 Monitoring
  7.9 Risk Management
8 Examples of published risk assessments for use and disposal of
  sludges
  8.1 USEPA risk assessment for the Federal Sewage Sludge
      Rules, 1992
  8.2 USEPA risk assessment of dioxin-like substances in sewage
      sludge use and disposal, 2002
  8.3 UKWIR risk assessment of pathogen transmission associated
      with using sewage sludge on farmland, 2003
  8.4 Abstracts of published risk assessments for sludges and
      related subjects
Annex A (informative) Glossary of acronyms commonly used in risk
        assessment
Annex B (informative) Extended text on risk assessment,
        communication and management
Annex C (informative) Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
Annex D (informative) Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Bibliography

The Scope of this document includes sludges from treating municipal, industrial and food processing wastewaters, sludge from treating raw water to make it potable, and other residues having similar potential environmental impacts.The purpose of this document is to discuss risk assessment in general and especially as it has been applied to sludges for an audience of specialists and non-specialists. The objective is to set risk assessment in the context of policy making and operating sludge use and disposal.