Announcement of HERA's Papers of Year 2010.

The author discusses the Papers of Year 2010 award, in which the board of directors of the journal "Human and Ecological Risk Assessment" (HERA) selected several risk management papers. He says that the degree of contribution to the field of risk assessment and the overall quality of writing were the twofold categories. He lists several nominated papers written by various researchers and scientists according to its criteria including one from Mark A. Harwell, Niall O'Brien, and David L. Olson.