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Risk Communication for Consumer Products
2017There are many ways that product manufacturers can communicate risk to consumers. The hazard control hierarchy describes the fundamental elements and appropriate methodology for implementation of research-supported concepts and provides effective techniques for risk communication.
Meriel L. Bench +3 more
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A Risk Assessment for Consumers of Mourning Doves
Risk Analysis, 1998Recreational and subsistence hunters and anglers consume a wide range of species, including birds, mammals, fish and shellfish, some of which represent significant exposure pathways for environmental toxic agents. This study focuses on the Department of Energy's (DOE'S) Savannah River Site (SRS), a former nuclear weapons production facility in South ...
J, Burger +3 more
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Risk perception in consumer product use
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2000In the literature, at least two distinct connotations of risk can be found: so called objective risk, defined as the ratio of a particular number of accidents and a measure of exposure, and subjective risk, defined as the perception and awareness of risks by the person(s) involved. This article explores the significance of risk perception and awareness
M F, Weegels, H, Kanis
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Procedural Justice and the Risks of Consumer Voting
Management Science, 2019Firms are increasingly giving consumers the vote. Eight studies show that, when firms empower consumers to vote, consumers infer a series of implicit promises—even in the absence of explicit promises. We identify three implicit promises to which consumers react negatively when violated: representation (Experiments 1A–1C), consistency (Experiment 2 ...
Tami Kim +3 more
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A risk assessment for acrylonitrile in consumer products
Science of The Total Environment, 1990A carcinogenic risk assessment for acrylonitrile in consumer products was prepared as part of the Second Workshop on Pragmatics of Risk Assessment, Bethesda, MD. Data from one inhalation and two oral rat bioassays served as input into several high-to-low-dose mathematical risk extrapolation models. The final unit risk estimates for humans were based on
P K, Johnston, A R, Rock
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Malpractice: Provider Risk or Consumer Protection?
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2001The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) began operation in September 1990 as a clearinghouse for adverse action, licensure, and malpractice information in an effort to protect consumers and promote quality in health care. This study analyzed 66,107 and 1291 records of payments made for 50,396 physicians and 1218 nurses, respectively, from 1994 ...
N, Fanaeian, E, Merwin
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Consumer Product Risk Assessment
2011Product risk assessment is performed in order to assess the safety of products in relation to the consumer. According to the Technical University of Liberec, risk is a probability of accident occurrence and the possible consequences that might occur under certain circumstances or during a certain period (Duffey and Saull 2008).
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2001
Scientists and regulators are regularly baffled by public responses to risk, especially when the issue at stake seemed unproblematic or at least technocratically solvable as long as it was only discussed within the expert community. In terms of such polarizations, the 1970s were the age of dissent over nuclear power, while the 1990s saw the emergence ...
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Scientists and regulators are regularly baffled by public responses to risk, especially when the issue at stake seemed unproblematic or at least technocratically solvable as long as it was only discussed within the expert community. In terms of such polarizations, the 1970s were the age of dissent over nuclear power, while the 1990s saw the emergence ...
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Modelling credit risk of portfolio of consumer loans
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2007One of the issues that the Basel Accord highlighted was that though techniques for estimating the probability of default and hence the credit risk of loans to individual consumers are well established, there were no models for the credit risk of portfolios of such loans. Motivated by the reduced form models for credit risk in corporate lending, we will
M. Malik, Lyn C. Thomas
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2017
Research on the various aspects of consumer product risk including severity of harm, risk assessment, risk management and compliance are at the core of academic research in the marketing and public policy field. An overview of the various product risks present in the marketplace and their subsequent effects on consumers is presented.
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Research on the various aspects of consumer product risk including severity of harm, risk assessment, risk management and compliance are at the core of academic research in the marketing and public policy field. An overview of the various product risks present in the marketplace and their subsequent effects on consumers is presented.
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