Data on Risk Management Reported by Researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Risk Prioritization in the Food Domain Using…

Data on Risk Management Reported by Researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Risk Prioritization in the Food Domain Using Deliberative and Survey Methods: Differences between Experts and Laypeople)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- A new study on Risk Management is now available. According to news reporting originating from Zurich, Switzerland, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "This study examined how experts and laypeople using both a deliberative and a survey method prioritized 28 hazards related to food and everyday items. To enable them to make deliberative decisions, participants received detailed descriptions of the hazards."

Financial supporters for this research include Bundeseinheit fur die Lebensmittelkette, Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Kantonales Laboratorium Basel, Service de l'agriculture et de la viticulture - Canton de Vaud.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, "The participants prioritized the hazards before and after a group discussion, in which the group's average prioritization was discussed. The rankings of the hazards before and after the group discussion were highly correlated. However, laypeople and experts differed significantly in their rankings for 18 of the 28 hazards. Trust and confidence were important predictors for laypeople's risk rankings. To test the influence of the deliberative method (e.g., providing detailed information about each hazard), data from a second group of laypeople were collected with a no-information survey. This group did not receive specific information about the hazards. The risk rankings of the laypeople who received information were highly correlated with the risk rankings of laypeople who did not receive information. Overall, the results suggest that deliberative methods of risk-ranking or no-information survey methods with no information about hazards provide similar results among laypeople. The conclusion is that government agencies should not only base their risk prioritization on evidence from risk assessments but also need to consider laypeople's hazard rankings."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "This procedure may result in an efficient and publicly accepted risk management strategy."

For more information on this research see: Risk Prioritization in the Food Domain Using Deliberative and Survey Methods: Differences between Experts and Laypeople. Risk Analysis, 2017;():. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Risk Analysis - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1539-6924)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M. Siegrist, ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), Consumer Behavior, Zurich, Switzerland. Additional authors for this research include P. Hubner and C. Hartmann.

Keywords for this news article include: Zurich, Europe, Switzerland, Risk Management.

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