Health Risk Assessment in Lead Battery Smelter Factory: A Bayesian Belief Network Method

This paper proposes the use of Bayesian belief networks (BBN) as a higher level of health risk assessment for a dumping site of lead battery smelter factory. On the basis of the epidemiological studies, the actual hospital attendance records and expert experiences, the BBN is capable of capturing the probabilistic relationships between the hazardous substances and their adverse health effects, and accordingly inferring the morbidity of the adverse health effects. The provision of the morbidity rates of the related diseases is more informative and can alleviate the drawbacks of conventional methods.

Authors:

• Kevin Fong-Rey Liu
• Ken Yeh
• Cheng-Wu Chen
• Han-Hsi Liang

Keywords:

• Bayesian belief networks
• lead battery smelter factory
• health risk assessment.

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