How auditors assess and respond to risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, including the risk of fraud, is a critical component of audit quality. New research supported by the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's logo is displayed on a door at its headquarters on March 16, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require scientific ...

Eight standards rolled out in 2006 by the Auditing Standards Board are sparking a cultural shift for auditors. The standards—Statement on Auditing Standards nos. 104–111—are designed to enhance ...

Environmental contamination control is a crucial aspect of sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, and risk management is needed to guarantee that the necessary control procedures are in place. The risk ...

This session will review and describe the basic steps of a biosafety risk assessment for clinical laboratories. The risk of exposure to infectious agents exists in every clinical laboratory.

The next Beyond Science and Decisions Workshop XI will be held on February 18-20, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Taft Auditorium of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Conducting a comprehensive security assessment is imperative to ensure that all of a campus’ possible weak spots and entry points are addressed. By conducting a risk assessment, campus administrators ...

The process used by EPA to evaluate the safety of chemicals needs to be streamlined to ensure that risk assessments use appropriate scientific data and are relevant to decisionmakers, concludes a ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) commitment to its controversial Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) value for Ethylene Oxide (EO) remains unwavering as two recent developments ...

I don't know how many audits I have conducted over the last 20 years, but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment ...