risk communication research
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Workers at Risk: Regulatory Dysfunction at OSHA by Thomas McGarity, Rena Steinzor, Sidney Shapiro, Matthew Shudtz
Thomas Owen McGarity
Disaster Pedagogy | viz.
Red Teardrop, via Anota bien. My class, Rhetoric of Tragedy, is based on the idea that the events we normally label “tragic” are always points of contestation.
MediaShift . How Social Media, Internet Changed Experience of Japan Disaster
The reports and pictures of the devastation from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week reminded me of reporting on the earthquake that leveled Japan's port city of Kobe in 1995.
Over the years, my wife and children have grown accustomed to seeing me drift off into the world of my own thoughts -- it might be during a car ride or listening to my daughter tell me a story, or I might even be talking myself -- when, I'm told, my face dissolves, my eyes get glassy, I'm gone, useless to them, an absent father and husband. Being a person who works with ideas and books, an academic or a writer, is a terribly selfish activity, because it's hard to turn your mind off -- you're always at work, to the suffering of your family and friends.
The Role of the Public Intellectual
More Social Media Lessons from QPS in Australia: If we don’t listen, how can we hear? « idisaster 2.0
Post by: Kim Stephens I have written about the Australian Queensland Police Service and their brilliant use of social media for emergency response before .
The 2007 ANSI Z535 Standards-A New Era For Facility Safety Signs And Product Safety Labels Begins
IntroductionThe Bhopal Gas Tragedy: An Analysis Around 1 a.m. on Monday, the 3rd of December, 1984, in a densely populated region in the city of Bhopal, Central India, a poisonous vapor burst from the tall stacks of the Union Carbide pesticide plant. This vapor was a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate.