Monday, July 27th, 2009
In our daily lives we often become immune to risks around us. For example, there are around 40,000 annual fatalities from automobile accidents in the US and yet we do not think twice before getting into their cars. We eat a burger ignoring the risks of heart problems!
Why do we ...
Posted in Human Factors, Risk Perception, Safety Culture | 5 Comments »
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, 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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