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Huvudman
SVA
Finansiär
EFSA
Start/avslut
2021 - 2023
Medlemmar
Erik Nordkvist
Gunnar Andersson
Josefine Elving

ENhanced COMmunication in Risk ANalysis (ENCOMRAN)
In general, good
communication skills are essential in order to allow others and yourself to
understand information more accurately and quickly and avoid misunderstandings,
this is also true in the communication between risk managers and assessors.
Communication within the risk analysis process should be characterised by
openness and transparency.
Risk communication
towards consumers and other stakeholders has been extensively studied (e.g.,
Frewer et al. (Frewer et al., 2016)) while the communication between risk
assessors and risk managers is less well
described. Within the EFSA financed partnering grant project COMRISK
(“Communication inside Risk Assessment and Risk Management”, financed
through a Partnering
Grant GA/EFSA/AFSCO/2017/01-GA05
awarded by EFSA , Call reference
GP/EFSA/AFSCO/2017/01) the interaction between risk managers and
assessors within the four Member States, Sweden, Finland, Germany and the
Netherlands, was studied, focusing on identifying current practices and
challenges in the communication between risk assessors and risk managers during
the risk analysis process. Based on the results from COMRISK it is evident that
lack of communication seldom is a result of formal constraints or agreements.
Instead, there are perceived constraints or traditions that appear to be
possible underlying factors leading to scarce or poor communication between
risk assessors and risk managers. Thus, it is essential that both risk
assessors and risk managers acknowledge the crucial importance of communication
between them. Furthermore, it has been suggested that a formal systematic
process may facilitate communication during the risk analysis. ENCOMRAN’s main
objective is to build risk communication capacity by studying communication
between risk assessors and risk managers in more depth, getting more European
countries involved (compared to within previous projects) and promoting common
guidelines for open and transparent risk communication. ‘European countries’ in
this sense are the following: EU MSs, EU candidate countries and EFTA MSs with
risk assessment and risk management in separate roles. The European wide
survey, performed in the form of a web-based questionnaire, forms the basis of
ENCOMRAN and the in-depth analysis of data obtained from the survey aim to
enable knowledge transfer not only between the partners included in the
ENCOMRAN consortium but also other European countries. The survey will include
European countries with separation between risk management and risk assessment.