BRD Environmental Ltd services

If land has been polluted, then assessing the potential impact on human health is always of concern. BRD`s expertise in risk assessment can make sense of the numbers. Once a soil sample has been analysed by a laboratory, the concentrations for up to a couple of hundred different chemicals are presented in a table.  How do we understand all these numbers? The first step  to appreciate is that when assessing risk to human health from soil contamination it is considered on a suitable for use basis. In other words, whether the concentration of a particular chemical is of concern or not will depend upon what the land is to be used for. To some extent this is common sense, as most people can appreciate that a small child playing in a residential garden is a far more sensitive land use than an adult working in an office with limited landscaping.