Risk Assessment / Management

Risk Management, as it pertains to remedial actions and their associated functions, is the ability to properly balance a remedial methodology’s proven effectiveness, costs, timeliness, complexity, and regulatory and community acceptance. Many factors must be taken into account when deciding the optimal remedial approach and how to best implement it.

BEM is experienced inimplementing risk-based corrective actions. We design remedial investigations and collect the specific data needed to address risk issues. We then combine the results of the risk assessment with target risk levels that are appropriate for the expected land use to derive reasonable, health-protective target cleanup levels. BEM’s skill in applying innovative risk approaches and record of obtaining acceptance to these approaches is exceptional.

BEM works closely with federal and state agencies, local communities and other stakeholders to evaluate various remedial technologies and risk-based clean-up criteria to design site-specific strategies. For example, BEM has worked with the USEPA to derive ecological and human health risk-based cleanup standards. We fully understand how risk-based arguments can reduce cleanup costs and be used in determining the best future use of property holdings.

Using our risk assessment, modeling and negotiating skills, BEM helps potentially responsible parties and other property owners pursue risk-based strategies that allow property redevelopment efforts to proceed.

For more information, contact Don Richardson, Director at (908) 598-2600 x183 or at drichardson@bemsys.com