Francis Ramacciotti

GHD’s Environmental Risk Assessment Lead, North Wales, PA
Francis C. Ramacciotti is a Principal and Senior Risk Assessor of GHD with over 20 years of experience in environmental health risk assessment, with a specialty in human health assessments. He approaches and uses risk assessment/evaluation as a tool to inform and guide site characterization, remediation, communication, and completion of remedial activities (as appropriate) to ensure protection of human health and the environment. He uses risk-based principles under RCRA, CERCLA, and state cleanup programs to ensure collecting data of sufficient quality and quantity to perform a risk assessment that can be used to balance the risks, benefits, and trade-offs associated with competing remedial alternatives, while also being able to communicate the decisions. He has contributed to ITRC’s technical guidance documents on Risk Communication Toolkit (trainer), RISK-3 (section lead), TPHRisk-1 (section lead and trainer), 1,4-dioxane (section lead), and the Soil Background & Risk teams.