Strategic Reviews
The IOM provides reviews and strategic advice about health issues associated with environmental and workplace pollution to a wide range of organisations including government, industry and trade associations in the UK and internationally.
Our authoritative advice helps clients in the formulation of policies and decision making and is normally based on a comprehensive review of the available information integrating a range of information types. The benefits that IOM offers to clients are our independent status, our experience of working in multidisciplinary teams and our wide practical experience of addressing issues of health and safety in the work place and more general environment. Our in-house expertise cuts across traditional boundaries of toxicology, medicine and exposure assessment to deliver an authoritative independent viewpoint.
Strategic reviews are integral to several of our other activities including health impact assessment and chemical risk management.
Our reviews provide industry with increased confidence in their conclusions and independent external validation. This can be of particular value to industry in environmental issues with high public concern.
Recent examples of our review and advisory work includes:
- A review of the hazards of nanoparticles, including recommendations for research priorities, for DEFRA
- Drafting a practical guide for safe working with asbestos, for the European Commission
- A survey and review of employers sickness absence tools for the HSE
- Benzene and leukaemia risk studies review, for the petroleum industry