 What a Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment (DQRA) is?

Use more site specific data to conduct a more accurate assessment of risk. His nature is
complex but it is required upon the site and requirements of the regulator.

Each tier of risk assessment requires information about the site for possible solutions
for managing the risk. The information required should be

o Relevant to the context

o Sufficient for the required level of confidence
o Reliable in reflecting true or likely conditions
o Transparent in meaning
Use more criteria to decide whether there are unacceptable risks. The assessor
identified pollutant linkage that require further detailed assessment. Some values of
concentration with specific characteristics, behaviours, pathways and receptors
correspond to relevant criteria in relation to harm or pollution for deciding whether
there is an unacceptable risk. Despite this information the assessor could need more
information about to develop risk estimation models and site specific assessment
criteria. Then the assessor refines the conceptual model and confirms the linkage need
to be evaluated. The assessor carries out risk estimation and evaluation. The final part
is to consider further information about the assessment, decision to move to options
appraisal or where unacceptable risks have been identified.

Decisions
o Appropriate criteria or tools for estimating or evaluating the risks for a
particular pollutant.
o Unacceptable risks with these linkage can be identified.
o Further action is needed

Outputs

o Evaluation and criteria used to estimate and evaluate risk, unacceptable risk
identified and the proposed next steps.
o Development and choice of criteria, tools and assumptions for risk estimation,
evaluation of the potential risks, the decisions of what happen next.

 Why and how does it differs from a GQRA?

o The purpose is to establish if the GRQA and assumptions are appropriate for
assessing the risks and to apply them to establish if there are actual or
potential unacceptable risks.
o GQRA derived using largely generic assumptions about the characteristics and
behaviour or sources, pathways and receptors. These assumptions will be
conservative in a defined range of conditions.
o The first step is the CMS and the context of the risk assessment and identified
some potential pollutant linkages of concern. During this stage the assessor
considers appropriateness of generic assessment criteria to simplify the
assessment of the site. Further information then is collected
o Information collection may include:
 Staged intrusive site investigation
 Supplementary site investigation, data review and analysis.
 o The assessor refines the CMS, if it is possible the assessor uses generic
assessment criteria to asses one or more pollutant linkages.
o The final part is to include further work to complete the generic risk
assessment. Using generic assessment may also lead straight to the stage of
options appraisal or where no potential health and environmental risks have
been identified to an exit from the process.

Decisions

 The assessor should establish what pollutant linkages can be evaluated using
GQRA.
 Whether unacceptable risks associated with these linkage can be identified.
 Appropriate further actions

Outputs

 Decision records, the pollutant linkages identified based on the development

of the conceptual model, the generic assessment criteria used to assess the
risk, the unacceptable risks identified and the proposed next steps in the
relation to the site.
 An explanation of the development conceptual model, the selection of criteria
and assumptions, the evaluation of the potential risks and the basis for the
decision on what happen next.
 DQRA GQRA
Method More specific data to conduct a more Use generic assumptions to
accurate assessment define range of conditions
Information Relevant Staged intrusive investigation
Sufficient Supplementary site investigation,
Reliable data review and analysis
Transparent
Decisions Appropriate criteria to estimate risk Establish which pollutants need
with a particular pollutant to be evaluated by GQRA
Unacceptable risk with his respective Identify unacceptable risk
linkage can be identified Appropriate further actions
Further actions needed
Outputs Define unacceptable risks, evaluation
and possible next steps
 Your recommendations and advice on what the client should do to carry out a DQRA
on this site

PRELIMINARY CONCEPTUAL MODEL

o Phase I desk study identified potentially contaminative land uses:
 Made ground and imported made ground associated with
development of the site and the adjoining area.
 Ground gas associated with historical landfill, quarry and graveyard
sites both on-site and nearby.
 Hydrocarbons associated with current land use as a car park.
o Contaminants of concern

o Receptors
o PCM