EHS (Environmental, Health, and Safety)
2024 - 2025 Final Exam Comprehensive
Review Questions and Answers 100%Pass
David Mungai [Date] [Course title] EHS (Environmental, Health, and Safety)
2024 - 2025 Final Exam Comprehensive
Review Questions and Answers
100%Pass
Risk communication intent - Answer>> to correct the disconnect
between technical (calculated) risk and perceived risk
Common high risk perception factors - Answer>> new things, human-made, involuntary exposure, low benefit, awful consequences
uncontrollable
unstrusted sources, high uncertainty consequences to children, personal consequence
psychometric paradigm - Answer>> Series of influential factors for risks: high consequences, new-unknown to science, personal control (control over severity of consequences)
what is the intent of risk communication - Answer>> RC as a message (behavioral outcomes)
RC as a process (focused on improved decision making)f
use message approach when - Answer>> risks are well understood, significant, and coupled with clear and dire consequences
INformation processing errors - Answer>> many choices are the result of inadequate information processing human use heuristics rule of thumbs, mental shorcuts
struggle with numbers get swayed by the way info is framed
heuristics - Answer>> when people are faced with complex or unfamiliar choices, we have seen that they devial sharply from the
rational actor model
bounded rational
numeracy - Answer>> people arent great with numbers, small probs: think it will never happen, big number cant grasp
framing - Answer>> - the words, images, or phrases that a source uses to reveal what is relevant about the topic at hand
framing effect - Answer>> when a certain type of communication effort changes how an individual weights a particualr piece of information and changes the way they think about the issue and how you might act
How to ensure that communication results in high quality decision - Answer>> 1. know audience
2. strategic framing
3. translate data into concrete experience
4. reveal and clarify uncertainties
5. tap into social identities and affiliations
fear appeals - Answer>> extended parallel process model
susceptibility and severity danger control
fear control
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