Risk management team members --- add a recent article written by David Ropeik, posted on the Psychology Today website and entitled “Poor Risk Communication in Japan Makes the Fear Much Worse” to your required reading resource list. By asking the question, “Can the fear of radiation do more harm than the radiation itself?” our disaster preparedness and crisis management teams are asked to focus beyond the disaster reality and recognize that how you communicate the disaster reality to your employees, fellow executive management, the families of your employees and the communities … [Read more...]