Need for a Training Program on the Optimum Risk Communication Design Method

Abstract

The Society for Risk Analysis Japan held a training session in 2004 for the purpose of cultivating skillful risk communicators. The program was very useful to a person who has no experience of risk communication to learn the basics including the concept of risk communication, how to create contents and to present such communication. However, completion of this curriculum does not mean that the skill to actually execute risk communication on site is gained. Executing optimum risk communication should incorporate an appropriate design method based on systematic review. In this paper, by examining failed cases of risk communication, the importance of its design is confirmed. And the need for a training program that incorporates optimum design method is also discussed.