Current Issues in Contaminated Land Risk Assessment

Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment – December Conference

SoBRA (the Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment) is holding its AGM next month. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 16th 2015, at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) premises in London.

In collaboration with the RSC Toxicology Group, SoBRA will also be holding a conference on the same day, titled ‘Current Issues in Contaminated Land Risk Assessment.’ The conference will include a poster display covering a range of key research topics and case studies. The topics that will be discussed include:

  • An update on Defra and the Environment Agency’s activities in contaminated land risk assessment
  • Human health risk assessment regarding contaminated land: the state of the art
  • The potential for airborne asbestos from soil contamination
  • Landfill risk assessment

SoBRA’s Vice Chair, Lucy Thomas, will also be giving a talk next month on ‘Asbestos: How to investigate a brownfield site safely.’ The event has been organised by the Geological Society and will take place in Warrington on December 3rd 2015.

For further information on these events, see the SoBRA website.

Note

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