Risk Assessment & Mitigation

Objectively Quantify Risk

Construction

Getting in front of cost overruns and delays; improving worker safety; supporting wind-, fire-, and earthquake-resistant designs.

Identifying potential contaminant sources; advising on the fate and transport of possible releases; providing bespoke chemical analysis for individual products, processes, and operations; studying toxicological impacts.

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Consumer Products

Studying individual product characteristics, composition, and end-use conditions to define potential risks; evaluating manufacturing and workplace safety; documenting risk from chemicals such as lead, phthalate, and others.

Electronics

Identifying manufacturing and workplace hazards; uncovering product safety issues; managing toxins such as heavy metals.

Food & Beverage

Spotting sources of microbial growth; assessing pesticide residue; managing industrial machinery.

Government & Public Sector

Mitigating manufacturing and industrial risks; identifying data security vulnerabilities; using data to improve public health.

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Software & Computer Sciences

Analyzing software security weaknesses; identifying network capacity issues.

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Life Sciences & Healthcare

Objectively assessing procedural efficacy; analyzing real-world evidence (RWE); identifying medical device safety risks.

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Industrial & Manufacturing

Assessing employee safety; quantifying environmental risks; assessing climate risks to operations.

Mining

Assessing tunnel and high-wall engineering; quantifying the potential impact of tailings on water quality; determining long-term climate risks.

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Energy

Assessing production pressures on pipelines; quantifying occupational hazards; modeling contamination effects; helping utilities reduce outages through risk-informed power line hardening.

Exponent provides wide-ranging testing support to improve the safety and performance of medical devices and innovative healthcare.

To support the development of a novel medical device, we brought together

electrical engineering and computer science , thermal sciences , regulatory review , biological engineering and sciences

How Can We Ensure Implantable Medical Devices Allow for Life-Saving Imaging?

A promising new therapy for stroke recovery pairs Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) with rehabilitation therapy to help patients regain function in their upper extremities. Our client needed to understand the effect of the MRI environment on its device and to develop safety labeling providing the conditions under which patients can be safely imaged.

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Our biomedical engineering and sciences experts, based on the results of testing, assessed how the device would behave in an MRI environment and how device interactions would physically impact the patient's surrounding physiology. Ultimately, our interpretation and analysis were used to assess where these interactions and impacts should be limited, and clearly denoted through labeling and instructions for use.

Capabilities

Find It & Fix It

More than 50+ years of analyzing failures has helped us develop a rare perspective on failure prevention and mitigation. Our specialized capabilities offer clients state-of-the-art risk management technologies — but our multidisciplinary teams thrive on innovating bespoke ways to address evolving or even unprecedented problems.

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External Hazards: Risk Assessment & Mitigation

Accurate assessment, mitigation, and remediation support for external hazards and natural disasters.

Risk Management & Hazard Analysis

Risk assessments and hazard analysis for every industry to minimize the likelihood that accidents and system failures cause deferred or lost production.

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Occupational Health

Occupational and environmental health risk assessment and mitigation strategies to help protect employee health and wellness.

Health Risk Assessments

Identify risks, hazards, and liabilities to improve occupational health and safety.

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Risk & Safety Analysis for Mechanical Engineering

Multidisciplinary risk assessments, equipment safety evaluations, and occupational safety analysis.

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Structural & Geotechnical Quantitative Risk Assessment

Innovative, quantitative risk assessments to support climate-change planning that helps protect buildings, infrastructure, and other valuable assets.

Environmental Risk Assessment

Risk assessments for legacy spills and contamination, potential project and product impacts, and environmental remediation support.

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Modeling & Analysis

Experienced environmental analysis and data modeling for a range of complex environmental challenges.

Testing & Evaluations

Best-in-Class Facilities Meet World-Class Experts

Our multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers at Exponent facilities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia are uniquely positioned to provide rapid response, onsite inspections, bespoke testing, and unparalleled scientific analysis, data, and research.

Meeting Your Challenges Where They Are

Ensuring regulatory compliance. Evaluating equipment safety. Assessing site surface conditions. Our integrated teams of experts in North America, Europe, and Asia conduct on-site inspections, custom testing, and rapid response for a wide range of challenges. Exponent can also assist with inspections in remote locations through encrypted video-streaming capabilities.