Updated: June 1, 2009

One-day Risk Communication Seminar

Sample Agenda

Risk = Hazard + Outrage
Risk Communication in Controversy

8:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
8:15 a.m. Hazard Versus Outrage: Responding to Public Concerns about Risk
The High-Outrage Low-Hazard Risk
Strategies of Outrage Reduction
The Nature of Outrage
Outrage Components
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Hazard Versus Outrage (continued)
12:00 noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. Trust, Power, and Accountability: How to Involve Stakeholders
1:45 p.m. Overcoming Barriers to Risk Communication
Cognitive Barriers
Organizational Barriers
Psychological Barriers
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Participants will choose topic by vote:
Dealing with the Outrage Industry: Advocacy Groups and the Media
or
Explaining Risk Data
or
The Other Side: Alerting People to Serious Hazards
4:15 p.m. Questions and Answers
4:30 p.m. Seminar Close

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