ABSTRACT
The material below will examine four example scenarios in hazardous material/waste management that require risk communication: emergency response, remediation, facility siting, and ongoing plant operations. However, those who have environmental risk communication is one of the more critical problems that this country faces. Success in risk communication is not to be measured by whether the public chooses to set the outcomes that minimize risk as estimated by the experts; it is achieved instead when those outcomes are knowingly chosen by a well-informed public. The preceding seven cardinal rules of risk communication only seem logical. The central risk communication issue for an emergency response is generally to disseminate health and safety information. One of these resources, in particular, is time, especially during the most challenging risk communication efforts, as when emergency conditions leave no possibility for consulting with the people concerned, or to assemble the vital information that would be necessary.
