Risk communication might be just announcement of possible danger without any other consequences and/or priority. Or it might be early warning provided by crisis management committee(s) mentioned below.
Apart of crisis communication, we dont have risk communication explicitly defined in our national law.
Crisis communication usually starts with declaration of "crisis status" and it might be anything up to mobilizing of all available human and material resources and limitation of guaranteed freedoms (f.inst. forced evacuation). It is usually handled by crisis management committees in accordance with predefined crisis management plans.
Crisis communication means to ensure reliable communication with highest priority along the whole predefined chain of command from relevant governmental level(s) down to involved local authorities. Or it might also cover official request for international help.
Risk communication might be just announcement of possible danger without any other consequences and/or priority. Or it might be early warning provided by crisis management committee(s) mentioned below.
Apart of crisis communication, we dont have risk communication explicitly defined in our national law.
Crisis communication usually starts with declaration of "crisis status" and it might be anything up to mobilizing of all available human and material resources and limitation of guaranteed freedoms (f.inst. forced evacuation). It is usually handled by crisis management committees in accordance with predefined crisis management plans.
Crisis communication means to ensure reliable communication with highest priority along the whole predefined chain of command from relevant governmental level(s) down to involved local authorities. Or it might also cover official request for international help.
Thankyou Tomy and Aniqa. Was wondering the same thing but never got around to asking this question.
Just for clarification.
I tried to describe narrower sense of "communication" as defined by EU telco legal materials (i.e. phone calls, SMSs, e-mails etc.).
WIKI contains quite nice description of the issue, although too simplified for practical usage.
Risk communication is all about communicating future risk situations with the public, while Crisis Communication are the methods that can be adopted related to crises in any country or any situation, today tomorrow or in future.
The third subgroup is "Business Continuity Plan". It might be relatively easy to ensure it from point of view of IT, the rest is highly business type dependent.
Risk communication is more proactive and responsible and provides systems and methods for preparedness in case of any eventuality or national calamity. It is always preferable to crisis communication and saves valuable human lives and national property. Crisis communication can be averted or substantially reduced If risk communication is adequate and timely.
I wonder whether this adds anything, but, in essence, a crisis is a potentially anticipated risk that happens. So, yes, risk and crisis are linked, but a crisis as far as I'm concerned only happens when the media start talking about it. Which leads me to believe that risk communication has more to do with political and media agenda setting, and crisis communication with dealing with the media when a crisis occurs. Having said that, crisis communication has to deal with risk perception, if only to demonstrate that it is capable of at least managing/controlling the process - which in itself is one of the dimensions of risk. As to the ethics of risk communication etc. there's an excellent article by Eric Thompson on Risk & Ethics worth looking at - although it doesn't deal with issues of procedural justice which are I believe becoming more important in this realm.
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