ID: 1732
Presenting Author: Roland Cormier
Session: 725 - After the Assessment – Where’s the Value and What Happened in the End?
Status: pending
This paper demonstrates the use of a risk management process to identify the environmental management measures needed to address the impacts identified once an environmental impact assessment is compl
The Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Policy Statement outlines that Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program (FFHPP) will apply a risk-based approach in the evaluation of impacts to fish and fish habitat from works, undertakings or activities in or near water. The ISO 31000 risk management process and IEC/ISO 31010 risk assessment techniques are being used in the development of technical measures in the implementation of regulatory and non-regulatory programs. Risk being defined as the effect of uncertainty on objectives, the purpose of ISO 31000 is to reduce the uncertainty in achieving objectives to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable through the implementation of management measures. IEC/ISO 31010 has proved particularly useful for risk assessments of pressures generated from human activities. Within an FFHPP context, it provides techniques for the identification of risks and the analysis of the reliability and effectiveness of critical mitigation measures used to manage those risks. This paper outlines the development of risk management practices using ISO standards over the past fifteen years. It also demonstrates how the relevant techniques were used (a) in risk identification to develop pathways of effects, (b) in risk analysis to identify critical mitigation measures and determine their reliability and effectiveness; and (c) in the risk evaluation of the risk reduction of mitigation measures used in regulatory and non-regulatory instruments to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable.
Roland Cormier has a Ph.D. from the University of Hull (UK) and more than forty years experience in fisheries stock assessment, seafood safety programs and freshwater and marine environmental manageme