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EASOM - Summer School, Dresden, 29-31 August 2001

EASOM - Summer School, Dresden, 29-31 August 2001. Course experiences with course in risk communication Olli Punnonen Finnish Institute of Occupational Health olli.punnonen@occuphealth. fi www.occuphealth.fi. Share of different occupations attended at FIOH training 1999 (%).

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EASOM - Summer School, Dresden, 29-31 August 2001

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  1. EASOM - Summer School, Dresden, 29-31 August 2001 Course experiences with course in risk communication Olli PunnonenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health olli.punnonen@occuphealth.fi www.occuphealth.fi

  2. Share of different occupations attended at FIOH training 1999 (%) Occupations (examples) 1999 N=5583 >OHS personnel 45 >Safety managers, -engineers, -hygienists. 9 >Safety representatives 8 >Personnel managers and -planners 7 >Production , Sales Maintenance Managers 8 >Other 25

  3. Risk Communication 27.-28.3.2001, Turku "Riskikommunikaatio" Turku Regional Institute of Occupational Health

  4. Course planning group • Hygienist • Physician • Psychologist • Safety Engineer

  5. Participants in the course OHS-personnel 3 laboratory-foremen 6 safety-personnel 8 reseachers 2 ______________ 19

  6. I DAY PROGRAM 10.00 Mind-Map and Consepts/ approaches in Risk Communication 11.00 Why to take a risk - which elements are influencin in to our behaviour? 13.00 Practical instructions for risk communication 14.00 Understanding written text 16.00 Massmedia and information about risks II DAY PROGRAM 8.30 How possible is propable 9.30 Individual differences in exposures 12.30 How to calculate, assess and inform on risks - group exercise 15.00 Plan to improve your own company risk communication 15.30 End of the course, own Mind-Map again about risk communication Risk Communication 27.-28.3.2001, Turku"Riskikommunikaatio"

  7. Pre work 10.00 Mind-Map and Pre work: Describe 1-3 situations, where it is difficult to handle a risks connected to the situation. Individual work in the beginning of the course: Risk communication - what comes to mind and in which situation/setting - Participants own Mind-Map I DAY PROGRAM

  8. 10.15 Consepts and approaches in Risk Communication Lecture on basic consepts Perception-Danger-Risk Risk assessment - Risk management Risk behaviour- Acceptable level of risk I DAY PROGRAM

  9. 11.00 Why to take a risk - which elements are influencin to our behaviour? Lecture on individual and group behaviour and reactions "Barriers" against rational behaviour Theories of health behaviour Inividual reactions - theories, models and explanation chategories Group behaviour Solution oriented approach I DAY PROGRAM

  10. 13.00 Practical instructions for risk communication Lecture: Dialogue approach - focus on the receiver Risk communication is an essential element in risk management Risk - danger and exposure Risk evaluation process Challenges: Knowledge, process and ability of communication (Rowan) In communication important - Receivers situation: culture, opinion, knowledge Fair and unfair comparisons of risk I DAY PROGRAM

  11. Comparisons Fair comparisons - same risk during different times - compared to the standards Unfair comparisons - compare to the costs - compare to the benefit - compare to the other factors causing same illness - compare to smoking, car driving etc. Possible comparisons - risk compared to the situation done nothing - to the same risk in different places

  12. 14.00 Understanding written text - How we read a statement, news paper, Internet. Group exercise: 3 groups -each with 3 articles about the same theme. Indoor air and mobile phones. Same subject, but different sources Task is to assess a given text 1. Reliability of the information (article etc.) 2. Probability of risk 3. Intelligibility of the information I DAY PROGRAM

  13. 16.00 Massmedia and information about risks Discussion on how to co-operate with massmedia I DAY PROGRAM

  14. 8.30 How possible is propable Lecture and discussion on interpretation of probability concepts Verbal expression, print words, numbers and the relativity of information II DAY PROGRAM

  15. 9.30 Individual differences in exposures Lecture from the medical point of view Individual susceptibility and factors influencin in susceptibility II DAY PROGRAM

  16. 12.30 How to calculate, assess and express or inform on risks Group exercises (calculation) about risk assessment, acceptability of risk level, and avoidance of risk 1. Cancer risk in bensin filling, 2. Safe pregnancy, 3. Safe filling of nitrogen cask Discussion on what can be assessed or mathematically solved, how to frame uncertainity and how to live with it II DAY PROGRAM

  17. 15.00 Plan to improve your own company risk communication Discussion: What can we do in another way - what is ok now in our organisation End of the course, own Mind-Map again about risk communication II DAY PROGRAM

  18. Risk Communication Probable Impossible possible Good chance Certain Quite doubtful Likely

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