The Radiation Protection Expert's Communication; Expectations, Actual practice and Further development : Strålskyddsexpertens kommunikation - förväntningar, nuvarande praktik och fortsatt utvecking
Thelander, Åsa LU
and Ek, Åsa
LU
(2023)
Nordic Society for Radiation Protection (NSFS) XIX Conference
p.6-7
- Abstract
- Radiation protection professionals are engaged in risk communication with various stakeholders to contribute to risk awareness, trust building, informed risk decisions, and advice for action. The newly launched IRPA guideline on risk communication has the objective to enthuse communication on radiation protection and provide experiences and techniques regarding this task. However, radiation protection communication has always been an important task for the professionals, but the guideline is a sign of a move forward in the development of communication practices. Radiation protection professionals exist in various organizational contexts and communication goals and practices has evolved in these contexts. The aim of this qualitative... (More)
- Radiation protection professionals are engaged in risk communication with various stakeholders to contribute to risk awareness, trust building, informed risk decisions, and advice for action. The newly launched IRPA guideline on risk communication has the objective to enthuse communication on radiation protection and provide experiences and techniques regarding this task. However, radiation protection communication has always been an important task for the professionals, but the guideline is a sign of a move forward in the development of communication practices. Radiation protection professionals exist in various organizational contexts and communication goals and practices has evolved in these contexts. The aim of this qualitative research study is to contribute to increased knowledge on professionals’ current communication strategies and practices and make recommendations for possible development. Qualitative interviews with radiation protection professionals was conducted in three contexts: an authority, a university hospital, and municipal rescue service. The interview focuses on issues such as the radiation protection professionals’ views on communication and their own role; their developed communication strategies, approaches, and solutions; what kind of support they have for the communication task in their organizations; as well as opportunities for development. Based on the interview results the study identifies communication approaches and practices that seem to be important to the interviewees and how certain practice is supported by their organisation and how it, taken together, results in implicit communication strategies. The study also identifies areas or aspects in communication that can be further developed. The IRPA guide can contribute to increased awareness of risk communication in practice as well as to the discussion about risk communication in the community. The current study results may contribute to deepening the discussion. (Less)
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- author
- Thelander, Åsa
LU
and Ek, Åsa
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-06-05
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Professional communicators, radiation protection professional, Risk communication
- pages
- 1 pages
- conference name
- Nordic Society for Radiation Protection (NSFS) XIX Conference
- conference location
- Malmö, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2023-06-05 - 2023-06-09
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 42a33584-f6d5-436a-8ae8-de84de7e1ebd
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- https://nsfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NSFS-XIX-Programme_Final_2023.pdf
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title = {{The Radiation Protection Expert's Communication; Expectations, Actual practice and Further development : Strålskyddsexpertens kommunikation - förväntningar, nuvarande praktik och fortsatt utvecking}},
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