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Public communication about industrial risks and hazards is becoming an important feature of both corporate and government policies in the area of health, safety and the environment. Such communication appears to be an issue of great scientific, economic, social and political complexity. Limitations in the science of risk assessment, in media coverage, in risk management institutions, in public perception and understanding or in other resources may pose serious obstacles to risk communication. To this must be added the more basic observation that the actual motives to inform the public about risks may be rooted in different considerations.
This paper is bases upon research conducted by P.J.M. Stallen, J. de Boer, J. van Eijndhoven, G. Keren, J. van de Pligt and C. Worrell on behalf of the MInistry of Housing, Physical Planning and the Environment (Directorate for Chemicals and Risk Assessment) and the Ministry of the Interior (Directorate for Fire Department)
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Stallen, P.J.M. (1991). Developing communications about risks of major industrial accidents in the Netherlands. In: Kasperson, R.E., Stallen, P.J.M. (eds) Communicating Risks to the Public. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1952-5_4
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