Step 1.7 Preparing for Health Effects Evaluation

Preliminary Identification and Next Steps

You are now ready to decide whether people who are coming in contact with selected chemicals could get sick from their exposure.

To do this, you take the following steps

	Calculate site-specific doses
	Select health guidelines
	Compare site-specific doses to health guidelines (observed effect levels)
	Assess relevance of the critical study
	Evaluate other substance-specific factors
	Evaluate site-specific health effects data