Hazard communication: Labelling

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Communication

12. Evaluation of Hazard Communication Program in Taiwan

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Lu ◽  
L. Sung ◽  
D. Yeh ◽  
J. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Communication ◽  
Communication Program

scholarly journals Gamification and Hazard Communication in Virtual Reality: A Qualitative Study

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4663
Author(s):  
Janaina Cavalcanti ◽  
Victor Valls ◽  
Manuel Contero ◽  
David Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Training Environment ◽  
Hazard Communication ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

An effective warning attracts attention, elicits knowledge, and enables compliance behavior. Game mechanics, which are directly linked to human desires, stand out as training, evaluation, and improvement tools. Immersive virtual reality (VR) facilitates training without risk to participants, evaluates the impact of an incorrect action/decision, and creates a smart training environment. The present study analyzes the user experience in a gamified virtual environment of risks using the HTC Vive head-mounted display. The game was developed in the Unreal game engine and consisted of a walk-through maze composed of evident dangers and different signaling variables while user action data were recorded. To demonstrate which aspects provide better interaction, experience, perception and memory, three different warning configurations (dynamic, static and smart) and two different levels of danger (low and high) were presented. To properly assess the impact of the experience, we conducted a survey about personality and knowledge before and after using the game. We proceeded with the qualitative approach by using questions in a bipolar laddering assessment that was compared with the recorded data during the game. The findings indicate that when users are engaged in VR, they tend to test the consequences of their actions rather than maintaining safety. The results also reveal that textual signal variables are not accessed when users are faced with the stress factor of time. Progress is needed in implementing new technologies for warnings and advance notifications to improve the evaluation of human behavior in virtual environments of high-risk surroundings.

scholarly journals The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones. Part I: Cyclone Evolution and Direct Impacts

2017 ◽  
Vol 145 (11) ◽  
pp. 4317-4344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark Evans ◽  
Kimberly M. Wood ◽  
Sim D. Aberson ◽  
Heather M. Archambault ◽  
Shawn M. Milrad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Cyclone ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Western North Pacific ◽  
North Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Wind Waves ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Extratropical Transition ◽  
Hazard Communication

Extratropical transition (ET) is the process by which a tropical cyclone, upon encountering a baroclinic environment and reduced sea surface temperature at higher latitudes, transforms into an extratropical cyclone. This process is influenced by, and influences, phenomena from the tropics to the midlatitudes and from the meso- to the planetary scales to extents that vary between individual events. Motivated in part by recent high-impact and/or extensively observed events such as North Atlantic Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and western North Pacific Typhoon Sinlaku in 2008, this review details advances in understanding and predicting ET since the publication of an earlier review in 2003. Methods for diagnosing ET in reanalysis, observational, and model-forecast datasets are discussed. New climatologies for the eastern North Pacific and southwest Indian Oceans are presented alongside updates to western North Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean climatologies. Advances in understanding and, in some cases, modeling the direct impacts of ET-related wind, waves, and precipitation are noted. Improved understanding of structural evolution throughout the transformation stage of ET fostered in large part by novel aircraft observations collected in several recent ET events is highlighted. Predictive skill for operational and numerical model ET-related forecasts is discussed along with environmental factors influencing posttransition cyclone structure and evolution. Operational ET forecast and analysis practices and challenges are detailed. In particular, some challenges of effective hazard communication for the evolving threats posed by a tropical cyclone during and after transition are introduced. This review concludes with recommendations for future work to further improve understanding, forecasts, and hazard communication.

Comprehensibility of Pharmaceutical Pictorials among People with Mental Retardation

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 656-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Clayton Silver ◽  
Mitchell G. Basin ◽  
Carey A. Sexton ◽  
Jennifer L. Fabbi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Prescription Medication ◽  
Hazard Communication ◽  
Acceptable Range ◽  
Forensic Implications ◽  
Individuals With Mental Retardation

The present study assessed the comprehensibility of pharmaceutical pictorials that are often seen on prescription medication bottles. A total of 30 individuals with mental retardation living in semi-independent environments were asked to provide responses concerning the pictorial connotation. Results indicated that only three of the 42 pictorials presented were within the acceptable range of the ISO 67% comprehension criterion. These pictorials connoted “take with water”, “do not drink alcohol”, and “poison”. None achieved the ANSI 85% comprehension criterion. Furthermore, there were no statistically significant differences in comprehension between those who were taking the medication with bottles that displayed the corresponding pictorial and those who did not. The forensic implications and relevance concerning hazard communication are discussed.

Hazard Communication and Medical Surveillance

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Reginald L. Campbell ◽  
Roland E. Langford ◽  
Terry L. McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Medical Surveillance ◽  
Hazard Communication
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