Archive for the ‘Risk Communication’ Category
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Risk is a perception.
Our perception of risks is mainly affected by two factors:
(a) whether we are voluntarily accepting the risk.
A good example is a refinery worker considers the risks at workplace lower than his cousin who has only read about chemical plants; and
(b) potential consequences of event or act or decision.
For a layman, ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Take a look at the following video from Dominion Power:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7viGDALSoJE
And if you have time also check out this safety annoucement from Southwest:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvdCFYLf_JI
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Communicating risks to public from chemical or nuclear facilities is a major challenge. We notice this over and over again with EPA community-right-to-know, nuclear power plants and lately with the LNG facilities.
I want to focus on a critical aspect of this risk communication – winning the trust of the community.
There ...
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
We appear to be in a global recession – companies all over are struggling to deal with impact of economic slowdown. In an attempt to maintain profits, companies are drastically reducing their spending and also trimming down their workforce. It is anticipated that one-fourth of the employers in the US ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Citizens often oppose chemical process facilities near their community because of potential for high consequence events. This risk aversion of society is commonly referred to as NIMBY (Not-in-my-backyard). The risk aversion is based not by taking into account annual fatalities but based on potential worst-case catastrophe. Thus the main factor ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions require facilities that produce, handle, process, distribute, or store certain chemicals to develop a Risk Management Plan (RMP), and submit it to EPA. The following presentation provides a brief overview of EPA RMP.
[slideshare id=389818&doc=epa-rmp-regulations-1210041888596002-9&w=425]
Starting 2009, EPA RMP ...
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