Risk in the Making: Narrative, Problematic Integration, and the Social Construction of Risk - Russell - 2011 - Communication Theory. Free Books: National Academies Press. Libraries - Cultural differences in risk perception [electronic resource] : an examinat. Workers at Risk: Regulatory Dysfunction at OSHA by Thomas McGarity, Rena Steinzor, Sidney Shapiro, Matthew Shudtz. Thomas Owen McGarity University of Texas at Austin - School of Law Rena I. Steinzor University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Center for Progressive Reform Sidney A. Wake Forest University School of Law Matthew Shudtz Center for Progressive ReformFebruary 1, 2010 Center for Progressive Reform White Paper No. 1003 U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-14 Energy Center Research Paper No. 09-10 Abstract: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was born with a heavy load to bear – the obligation of ensuring that every worker in America has a safe and healthful workplace for his or her entire working life.
This white paper explores the causes of OSHA’s regulatory dysfunctions and describes their negative impacts on OSHA and America’s workers. After describing OSHA’s problems in detail, this paper outlines a number of reforms that could enhance the agency’s performance. Number of Pages in PDF File: 37 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation. Xkcd.
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. The right way to remember, what we should do to ensure that it never happens again, who to blame—all of these are controversial questions that provide an opportunity to study how we argue. But it can be hard to talk about these conversations in class, especially when you are looking at visual rhetoric. How do we address these contemporary events without making the classroom an upsetting place? It seems strange to ignore the earthquake and tsunami in a class that is built around discussion of devastating events. We talk about upsetting topics in class, although I do tell students that what they consider "tragic" is open to debate; I have received (very good) papers on, for example, Lindsay Lohan's personal decline and Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.
Via Buzzfeed "Support the Tsunami and Quake Relief," Dave CT. 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. On a personal level, I am praying for the people in a country I have come to see as a second home. As a media observer, what struck me this time was how rich and multifaceted the information flow was. In 1995, I worked in the AP bureau in Tokyo, trying to understand what I could from Japanese broadcast news reports. We were sometimes able to reach someone, official or not, in the Kobe region via phone for a quick interview as the death toll rose, eventually reaching more than 6,400. We, of course, covered the major news conferences held by agencies and government offices.
Multi-platform Experience Today The past few days, sitting at home and in my office in New York, it felt like I had more information and contacts at my fingertips than I did then as a reporter in Japan. Huge Amounts of Video Related. Libraries - Risky rhetoric : AIDS and the cultural practices of HIV testing. The Role of the Public Intellectual. 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. So I'd like to say a few things in justification of this kind of life, put it in larger perspective.
In short, what is the role of the intellectual in the world at large? I wish my long suffering family and friends could be in this room at this moment to hear my defense. I'll begin with some remarks by a famous intellectual of the past, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a famous intellectual of the present, Edward Said. Emerson's Intellectual. Users' Hazard Perceptions of Warning Components: An Examination o. Authors: Smith-Jackson, Tonya L.; Wogalter, Michael S. Source: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings, 1 January 2000, vol. 44, no. 32, pp. 55-58(4) Publisher: Buy & download fulltext article: The full text article is temporarily unavailable.
We apologise for the inconvenience. Abstract: This study examined color and symbol hazard ratings among participants whose primary language was English and who were monolingual. Document Type: Research Article Publication date: January 1, 2000. Applying Cultural Ergonomics/Human Factors to Safety Information. Authors: Smith‐Jackson, Tonya L.; Wogalter, Michael S. Source: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings, 1 January 2000, vol. 44, no. 33, pp. 150-153(4) Publisher: Buy & download fulltext article: The full text article is temporarily unavailable.
We apologise for the inconvenience. Please try again later. Abstract: Cultural ergonomics/human factors (CE/HF) is an approach that considers situation‐ and trait‐based variations among cultures. Document Type: Research Article Publication date: January 1, 2000. Applied Ergonomics : Research-based guidelines for warning design and evaluation. Abstract During the past two decades, the body of empirical research on warning design and evaluation has grown. Consequently, there are now basic principles and guidelines addressing warning design (e.g., signal words, color, symbols, and text/content), placement (e.g., location within product instructions), and how to enhance the usability of designs by considering factors internal to the user (e.g., beliefs, perceptions of risk, stress).
Similarly, evaluation methods have been developed that can be used to measure the effectiveness of warnings such as the degree to which warnings are communicated to recipients and the degree to which they encourage or influence behavioral compliance. An overview of the empirical literature on warning guidelines and evaluation approaches is provided. Researchers, practitioners, and manufacturers can use these guidelines in various contexts to reduce the likelihood that injury and product damage from exposure to a hazard will occur.
Keywords. Idisaster 2.0. 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. I have continued to track their feeds, and I have a few more insights into their success that I would like to share. I asked them a few questions by simply sending a tweet with their name in it: @QPSMedia. Their reputation for responsiveness is well-deserved; whoever was monitoring their twitter feed simply asked me “What do you want to know?” I didn’t want to monopolize their time, since they are currently still in response/recovery mode from the recent cyclone, but I did manage to get two questions in. 1.If people post on SM that they need help (e.g. stranded etc.) do you have a legal obligation to respond?
Here in U.S., emergency managers fear social media replacing 911. The QPS media person responded: “We state the SM is NOT the best way 2 get emergency help, however we did arrange an evac after a tweet during #qldfloods. 3. Ideology and Katrina, or "what I do" Submitted by johnm on May 3, 2009 - 2:27pm First, I'd like to thank everyone with the Blogora for allowing me to be their guest Blogger for the month, I promise to use my powers for good and only occasionally for evil. I thought that for my first post I ought to introduce myself to the Blogora audience a little more formally, though I've been a commenter on here for some time. My name is John McKenzie, and I'm a third year Ph.D. student in rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and I study ideology.
What exactly I do with that I hope to preview for you in this post. One of the things that interests me the most about ideology is the way it is transmitted and perpetuated so that it holds the same basic character even as it may shift in content over time. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, I think we were given a glimpse into how ideological judgments are deployed to rationalize major social problems. Thumbnail. Risk Communication. News Releases Access flu-related press releases and news stories from 2006 to the present.
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Enhancing Your Safety Program with Safety Signs. The 2007 ANSI Z535 Standards-A New Era For Facility Safety Signs And Product Safety Labels Begins. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 53-63. Shifting anxieties, altered media: Risk communication in networked times. Viewcontent.cgi (application/pdf Object) Communication_of_risk_and_hazard_from_the_angle_of_different_stakeholders.pdf (application/pdf Object) Search Results: risk communication: EServer Technical Communication Library. The 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.
Of the 800,000 people living in Bhopal at the time, 2,000 died immediately, and as many as 300,000 were injured. In addition, about 7,000 animals were injured, of which about one thousand were killed. Ungarala, Pratima. Responding to risk information in the media: The role of attitudes towards the media and direct experience.