BREEZE Risk Analyst - Human Health Risk Assessment Software

HHARP Module

The HHRAP Module includes the following risk modeling capabilities:

• BREEZE Risk Analyst is available as an ESRI ArcView^TM Extension.
• Robust user interface with intuitive process flow - The BREEZE Risk Analyst user interface provides a robust, user-friendly GIS-driven project setup, results analysis, and project management environment.
• Modern Microsoft ‘Ribbon’ Style Interface 
• Unique Toolbars within Context Tabs and Grouped Toolbars 
• User-Managed Data Trees 
• Selection-Specific Properties Grids
• Powerful database solution and project management capabilities for managing all project inputs, analyses and results.
• Efficient data storage and managed project files ensure projects are easily transportable between users.
• Robust project setup, management and results analysis capabilities provide maximum user flexibility. Users can import, manage, and define every facet of the analysis prior to the modeling run or after model execution using powerful results analysis and reporting tools. Analyze individual emission sources, source groups, chemicals, chemical groups, exposure scenarios, and exposure scenario locations or simultaneously analyze thousands of source, chemicals, scenario, and location-combinations.
• Advanced error logging and numeric validation reporting options eliminate the concept of “black-box modeling”. These powerful features provide fully transparent modeling results and error logging options to provide users with total command and control of equation inputs, intermediate calculations and final results. These reporting options enable the efficient and transparent communication of risk results to stakeholders and also provide a mechanism for documenting methods and input parameters used to form the basis of risk modeling results.
• Highly flexible air modeling import wizard provides users with the tools necessary to import modeling results from a wide variety of air dispersion models (e.g., ISCST3, AERMOD, CALPUFF, and SCIPUFF) and in multiple data formats. Import formats are not limited or predefined by rigid software requirements. This capability allows users to extract the maximum benefit from previous modeling runs often reducing the need to re-run models. This flexibility results in significant time and cost savings since air modeling runs often take hours, days, and even weeks to complete (especially if modeling deposition, which is often the case when risk modeling).
  Fully editable Chemical Database. This functionality provides the flexibility necessary for keeping the database current and complete. Users can modify parameters based on specific state and regional regulatory requirements or unique site-specific factors. New chemicals can also be added and quickly populated with the necessary fate and transport and toxicity parameters.
• As an ESRI ArcView^TM Extension, no other product on the market offers a more complete GIS system. BREEZE Risk Analyst users can take full advantage of ArcView’s powerful capabilities including visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data. Using ArcView, users can understand the geographic context of their data, allowing you to see relationships and identify patterns in new ways never before possible without geospatial awareness.
• ArcView^TM Extension users can further extend the power of BREEZE Risk Analyst by using one or more of the many optional ArcGIS Desktop extensions available (e.g., 3D Analyst, Spatial Analyst). Analysis, Productivity, and Solution-based extensions allow you to perform extended tasks such as raster geoprocessing and remote sensing and three-dimensional data analysis and mapping.
• Other custom or specialty tools including refined fate and transport models such as the Lead IUEBK model will also be supported in future version of BREEZE Risk Analyst platform to further extend modeling capabilities and performance.
• Quickly identify and assign appropriate exposure scenarios and locations using a wealth of available background maps such as LULC, aerial imagery, parcel data coverages, etc.
• If identification of maximum risk locations is your goal, the advanced receptor optimization tool is the perfect solution for limiting the number of assigned receptors locations in each run while ensuring the location of maximum risk is not missed.
• Unprecedented Base Map format and import options. Click HERE to learn more about the powerful mapping and import/export features available in the BREEZE Risk Analyst – ArcView Extension.
• Use advanced drawing and selection tools to define areas of interest and assign the appropriate exposure scenarios and analysis locations.
• Define project level and global site-specific input parameters.
• Detailed parameter and equation descriptions and reference information provided using selection sensitive property grid controls.
• Advanced text and drawing annotation tools enable the generation of graphically rich custom maps and report figures.
• Convenient HHRAP equation parameter matrix included to quickly identify which equations contain each input parameters. Additional information is also provided to identify the parameter "type" including: default, user defined, site-specific, scenario specific, chemical-specific, etc.
• Easily link external data using advanced database join and relate capabilities.
• Import emission inventories such as the USEPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and the USEPA National Emission Inventory (NEI).
• Mercury Wizard guides users of all experience levels through the process of mercury speciation and phase allocation.
• Drinking Water and Fish Exposure Pathways – the identification and delineation of water bodies and associated watersheds has never been easier. Users can quickly import existing watershed / water body coverages such as the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) or custom define their own using powerful drawing tools, geospatial selection tools, and elevation analysis tools available in ArcView.
  
  
  
  

BREEZE Risk Analyst has a robust toolbox of results analysis and mapping features.  They include:

• Fully Transparent Results – the user has full access to equations, input parameters, and intermediate calculations. This powerful feature ensures model accuracy, establishes standardization, and provides the information required to support numeric validation. This feature is also extremely useful for identifying risk drivers and key input parameters influencing results.
• Advanced cartographic tools including fully customizable mapping symbology, legends, scale bars, labeling, orientation arrows, and geographic coordinates. 
• ArcView^TM data analysis capabilities allow advanced users to perform additional results post processing. Examples include the addition of background concentrations, monitoring data, and demographic analysis using ethnicity and socio-economic attributes. 
• Simultaneously calculate risk estimates for multiple sources, multiple chemicals, multiple exposure scenario and multiple locations. 
• Quick access to underlying attribute information such as detailed emission source or facility descriptions. 
• Advanced, yet easy to use geospatial data analytics and analysis capabilities 
• Powerful map export options including standard graphics formats, pdf maps, and Google Earth files. 
• Export results and maps to Google Earth and other internet mapping formats. 
• Advanced statistical data analysis and reporting tools. 
• Sort, filter, query, threshold, and exceedance options. 
• Customize result summaries by location-, source-, chemical-, chemical-group, exposure-scenario, exposure-pathway or any combination of the above. Results can be viewed using a data grid format (spreadsheet) or within the map view by simply selecting a location of interest using the “Details” tool. 
• Results can be exported as MS Excel, MS Access, ESRI Shapefile, XML, Txt, or HTML format for use in other applications or further analysis and reporting using advanced ArcView^TM features. 
• Generate Population-level Risk Estimates using either cancer burden or user defined cancer risk and non-cancer hazard levels.
  

The BREEZE Risk Analyst Chemical Database initially includes the 204 HHRAP Companion Database chemicals and the necessary fate and transport and toxicity parameters for evaluating acute exposure, cancer risks, and noncancer hazards. New chemicals can be easily added or imported into the database or existing chemicals can be modified by the user.  Chemical types include volatiles, semi-volatiles, and metals including:

• Polychlorinated dibenzo(p)dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs)
• Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
• Nitroaromatics
• Phthalates
• Other organics (e.g., Benzene, Cumene, 1,3-Butadiene)
• Metals (e.g., Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, Chromium)