EPA’s Risk Communication Workshop: A Unique and Essential Experience for Food Safety Educators

What do you say when frightened citizens are screaming at you about a contaminated food product? Or when people are demanding that you tell them how to safely prepare foods that might have been intentionally contaminated with harmful bacteria?

Recently the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Australia New Zealand Food Authority, and the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office found answers to similar risk communication situations by attending EPA’s Public Involvement and Risk Communication Workshop. Here are their reactions: “The best training I’ve ever had--bar none.” “Made me think about how to better do all the parts of my job.” “It’s interactive quality is really what makes it come alive!”

Whether it’s contaminated foods or the environment, people and emotions are the common factor. This workshop gives you practical strategies to minimize panic and build public trust for your actions.

This 4-hour workshop will give you hands-on practical experience and provide guidelines and skills to weather a communication crisis.

The instructor: Captain Alvin Chun, USPHS, Senior Policy Advisor.

For Further Information Contact:
Graduate School, USDA
Phone: (202) 314-3459
E-mail: fsis.outreach@usda.gov

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Updated May 16, 2002