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Communicating Risks to the Public - International Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Communicating Risks to the Public - International Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Risk, Governance and Society, 4
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Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is
at once a very new and a very old field of interest. Risk analysis,
as Krimsky and Plough (1988:2) point out, dates back at least to
the Babylonians in 3200 BC. Cultures have traditionally utilized a
host of mecha nisms for anticipating, responding to, and
communicating about hazards - as in food avoidance, taboos, stigma
of persons and places, myths, migration, etc. Throughout history,
trade between places has necessitated labelling of containers to
indicate their contents. Seals at sites of the ninth century BC
Harappan civilization of South Asia record the owner and/or
contents of the containers (Hadden, 1986:3). The Pure Food and Drug
Act, the first labelling law with national scope in the United
States, was passed in 1906. Common law covering the workplace in a
number of countries has traditionally required that employers
notify workers about significant dangers that they encounter on the
job, an obligation formally extended to chronic hazards in the
OSHA's Hazard Communication regulation of 1983 in the United
States. In this sense, risk communication is probably the oldest
way of risk manage ment. However, it is only until recently that
risk communication has attracted the attention of regulators as an
explicit alternative to the by now more common and formal
approaches of standard setting, insuring etc. (Baram, 1982)."
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