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ALGA is presenting a Health Risk assessment workshop in Sydney from 16 June.
Over two days Lynn Spence will deliver a “hands-on” workshop that introduces attendees to contaminant fate and transport analysis using the RISC software that was developed be Lynn. RISC has been used extensively on a global basis, to undertake Tier 2 health risk assessment.
Through the use of this software attendees gain an appreciation of the principles that underpin contaminant fate and transport analysis, this provides the building blocks to enable conceptual site models to built (in a quantitative manner) and enable Tier 2 health risk assessment to be performed (using RISC and other software packages/spread sheet based systems etc.).
This is a great opportunity to learn from someone who has significant insight in the practicalities of performing health risk assessment, methods of risk mitigation and policy issues that underpin risk based decision making. Lynn stresses that this course is not just a software class, rather the aim is to teach/educate on what type of fate and transport analysis is typically performed for health risk assessment.
Who should attend? – this class is ideally suited to consultants and regulators who have some knowledge of Tier 1 guidelines and CSMs and want to build on these skills to become more competent in performing/understanding contaminant fate and transport analysis and Tier 2 health risk assessment. It is assumed that attendees will have level of understanding of the health risk assessment process.
Cost: ALGA Members $660, Employee of Corporate Sponsor Non-member $775.00, Non-member $880.00
Please register for this workshop by Saturday 14 June. Click here for further details and registration information. Attendance is limited to 25 people.
Lynn Spence, Spence Environmental Engineering
Lynn Spence has 27 years of experience as a risk assessor, fate and transport specialist, vapor intrusion and petroleum hydrocarbon expert. She also has developed several widely used risk assessment software programs and teaches many short courses. Lynn received her bachelors and masters degrees in environmental engineering from Humboldt State University, California, and University of Washington, respectively. After initially working for a US Department of Energy (DOE) national lab, and the USEPA, she has worked as a consultant for most of her career with the last 20 years as an independent consultant.
Lynn is currently a team leader for the development of the ITRC (a federal technical regulatory) guidance document in the US on petroleum vapor intrusion. Recently she was one of three experts retaining to support the development of the California Low Threat Closure Policy for Underground Storage Tanks. This ground-breaking policy (for California) outlines risk-based conditions for the three main exposure pathways expected at petroleum UST sites and requires the sites to be closed in a timely manner if the criteria are met. Lynn has also worked with the States of Oklahoma and Colorado to develop their risk assessment screening levels and guidance documents. For BP and Chevron, she has developed international risk-based criteria to be used where other regulations are non-existent or where they do not meet company standards.
As a software developer, Lynn has developed the Risk Integrated Software for Clean-ups (RISC), a commercially available risk evaluation tool. This software has over 1000 users world-wide. In addition, she developed the American Petroleum Institute’s API DSS (decision support system) for risk assessment, and their TPH RBCA Spreadsheet for calculating “total” TPH risk-based screening levels for exploration and production sites. For Chevron, she built a “Conceptual Site Model” (CSM) maker for explaining all facets of a CSM to a site manager or program director to aid in planning a risk assessment.
Lynn has held an elected position of the local water board where she lives (East San Francisco Bay Area) and is a Science Advisory Board member for the Association of Environmental Health of soils (AEHS).
