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Communicating health, safety, and environmental risks to the public and to the scientific, political, and business communities is a persuasive task as well as an informative one.
The job is made easier if the assertions about risk can be
backed up with empirical data. But risks are often characterized
through the analysis of data sets containing
thousands if not millions of measurements. Further, the
collection of these data is often conducted by many research
teams, and the results often appear in disparate portions of
the scientific literature or regulatory reports. On top of all
this, environmental, safety, and health data compilations are
frequently massive. As a result, finding needed data can be
difficult, and understanding it can be bewildering. Web tools
are available that synthesize these data and present the
information they contain in an organized, understand-able
fashion. In doing so, they help risk communicators to focus
their writing on a specific topic and to base their assertions
on hard facts.
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Using Web Tools to Communicate about Risks to the Public
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2001/PDFs/STC48-000054.PDF
O'Hara, Frederick M., Jr. and Frederick W. Stoss
STC Proceedings
2001
Abstract: Communicating health, safety, and environmental risks to the public and to the scientific, political, and business communities is a persuasive task as well as an informative one.
The job is made easier if the assertions about risk can be
backed up with empirical data. But risks are often characterized
through the analysis of data sets containing
thousands if not millions of measurements. Further, the
collection of these data is often conducted by many research
teams, and the results often appear in disparate portions of
the scientific literature or regulatory reports. On top of all
this, environmental, safety, and health data compilations are
frequently massive. As a result, finding needed data can be
difficult, and understanding it can be bewildering. Web tools
are available that synthesize these data and present the
information they contain in an organized, understand-able
fashion. In doing so, they help risk communicators to focus
their writing on a specific topic and to base their assertions
on hard facts.
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