Harmonized methods, tools and approaches
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for all stakeholders to contribute to the development of globally harmonized methods, and new tools and approaches, for risk assessment (e.g. integrated approaches, combined exposures to multiple chemicals) that take into account use patterns, climatic conditions, gender and country capacities, where appropriate.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Health risk assessment of air pollution. General principles [2016]
- WHO - Brief guide to analytical methods for measuring lead in blood: Second edition [2020]
- WHO - Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: standard operating procedures [2018]
- WHO - Chemical Risk Assessment Network [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Strategic Plan for Enhancing Chemical Risk Assessment Capacity in Network Participants Strategic Plan: 2018-2020 [2018]
- WHO - Harmonizing global approaches to chemical risk assessment [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Human Health Risk Assessment Toolkit: Chemical Hazards, second edition [2021]
- FAO / WHO : Environmental Health Criteria 240: Principles and methods for the risk assessment of chemicals in food [2009]
- WHO - Risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals: A WHO/IPCS framework [2011]
- OECD - Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Guidance document on Evaluating and Expressing uncertainty in Hazard Characterization [2017]
- WHO - Chemical Safety of Drinking-water: Assessing Priorities for Risk Management [2007]
- WHO - Chemical mixtures in source water and drinking-water [2017]
- WHO - Rapid risk assessment of acute public health events [2012]
- WHO - Framework for the use of systematic review in chemical risk assessment [2021]
- WHO - Learning from practice: Case studies of health in strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment across the WHO European Region [2022]
- WHO - Effective risk communication for environment and health: a strategic report on recent trends, theories and concepts [2021]