“Risk = Probability × Consequences”: Probability, Uncertainty, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Evolving Risk Communication Rhetoric

Reamer, David

doi:10.1080/10572252.2015.1079334

Cited by 7 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, building this culture requires the organization to understand how employees view and perceive various risks and hazards associated with the working environment [ 6 , 7 ]. Workers’ risk perception is also essential in building an effective risk communication strategy that meets the organization’s requirements [ 8 , 9 ]. Therefore, assessing workers’ perceptions and understanding what forms their perceptions will enable risk management to design and implement effective strategies to eliminate or reduce the negative impact of these risks and hazards [ 8 , 10 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Alrawad

Lutfi

Alyatama

et al. 2022

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study aims to assess workers’ perception of occupational and environmental risks and hazards using the psychometric paradigm. For this purpose, data were collected using survey questionnaires from 360 mineworkers recruited from mineral and sand mines. Respondents were asked to evaluate eight occupational and environmental risks and hazards on nine commonly used risk characteristics. The principal component analysis revealed that two components, “Dreaded” and “Unknown”, explained 73% percent of the total variance in workers’ risk perception. The results also showed that the risk of developing an occupational disease was perceived as the most dreaded and unknown type of risk, while landslide, occupational noise, and vibration exposure were the least familiar to the respondents. A practical implication of this research is that the results may offer an insight into the employees’ perceptions of the hazards and risks associated with their working environment. This could help risk management develop and implement effective risk management and communications strategies.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Alrawad

Lutfi

Alyatama

et al. 2022

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Although often viewed through business and government lenses through prediction, management, and control of pressing dangers, risk management also involves sustainability and stability for the future (Beck, 2004). Thus, studies of risk can involve fairly definitive or imminent events or represent organizational long-term strategies for managing potentially uncertainty (Reamer, 2015).…”

Section: Risk Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Societal implications of quantum technologies through a technocriticism of quantum key distribution

Young,

Brooks,

Pridmore

2024

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Advancement in quantum networking is becoming increasingly more sophisticated, with some arguing that a working quantum network may be reached by 2030. Just how these networks can and will come to be is still a work in progress, including how communications within those networks will be secured. While debates about the development of quantum networking often focus on technical specifications, less is written about their social impacts and the myriad of ways individuals can engage in conversations about quantum technologies, especially in non-technical ways. Spaces for legal, humanist or behavioral scholars to weigh in on the impacts of this emerging capability do exist, and using the example of criticism of the quantum protocol quantum key distribution (QKD), this paper illustrates five entry points for non-technical experts to help technical, practical, and scholarly communities prepare for the anticipated quantum revolution. Selecting QKD as an area of critique was chosen due to its established position as an application of quantum properties that reaches beyond theoretical applications.

show abstract

“…Two relatively recent and specific studies demonstrate the failure of technocratic approaches to risk communication. In a study examining the strategies that federal agencies “have adopted to communicate the risks associated” with nuclear power (Reamer, 2015, p. 350), the author found that a lot of techno speak was employed and that the agencies routinely adopted a top-down communication approach that cost the industry public trust and faith in nuclear power. Boiarsky’s (2017) study similarly highlighted the consequences of ignoring the audience of a text during a crisis in her study of three different disasters.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In e-mail and text communications preceding and during the events of all three disasters, she found that poor communication patterns associated with writer-based instead of reader-based messages were partially to blame. Reamer (2015) and Boiarsky’s (2017) studies demonstrate the potential technical communication problems that occur when experts engage in technocratic practices at the expense of rhetorical awareness. Technical communicators working for agencies such as the CDC and who are responsible for preparing the public for potential disasters would benefit from considering case studies where technocratic approaches create barriers to audience acceptance of agency messaging.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Zombie Ent(r)ailments in Risk Communication: A Rhetorical Analysis of the CDC’s Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Campaign

Cheek

2019

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Apocalypticism is a powerful brew of eschatological belief and political imagination that is extremely persuasive. This article addresses the intersections between apocalyptic rhetoric and the technical communication of risk, disease outbreak, and disaster preparedness by analyzing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s zombie apocalypse preparedness campaign. Specifically, I argue that the framing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s campaign relies on and extends problematic iterations of apocalypticism and undermines the educational objectives of disaster preparedness and response. I conclude with suggestions for how technical communicators designing public awareness and outreach campaigns can use existential risk rhetoric for engagement without succumbing to the pernicious side effects of apocalypticism.

show abstract

“Risk = Probability × Consequences”: Probability, Uncertainty, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Evolving Risk Communication Rhetoric

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Societal implications of quantum technologies through a technocriticism of quantum key distribution

Zombie Ent(r)ailments in Risk Communication: A Rhetorical Analysis of the CDC’s Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Campaign

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About