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10 3ȣ, September 2013
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ISSN : 1738-4125 (Print)
ISSN : 2287-7509 (Online)
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A Study of the Perception Degree on Asbestos Management Policy about the Asbestos Related Stakeholders
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Abstracts
The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of government\'s asbestos management policy for asbestos managers in school and asbestos industries, who are stakeholders related to asbestos, and the general public. The purpose is to suggest preliminary data for the establishment of communication methodology of asbestos risk, fit for the features of each audiences, by grasping the features of risk communication by each element for each group survey. For this study, a questionnaire survey has been conducted from May to August in 2012 and the responses of 617 people including 214 school asbestos managers, 95 managers related to asbestos industry and 308 the general people have been analyzed.
As a result of the measurement of asbestos risk, the perception degree of general asbestos risk is higher in general public than the expert group\'s one, women than men, and nonsmokers than smokers. For the reliability of government\'s asbestos risk management, it was shown that it is the highest in school asbestos managers with public official personalities, who are a quasi-expert group for asbestos, than any other groups, the expert group of managers related to asbestos industry is in the middle level and general public group is in the lowest level. For trust in of government policy, it was shown that it is higher in school asbestos managers, than in group of managers related to asbestos industry, and the general public has a similar level of reliability with the group of managers related to asbestos industry.
After consideration of path coefficient by structural equation modeling in order to investigate the relation between factors that the trust affects of asbestos management policy among the variables of awareness of asbestos management policy, it has been shown that the main factor in reliability of asbestos policy in all investigated groups was an awareness of information sharing for asbestos policy, and the second factor was reliability in government\'s asbestos risk management.
Keywords : Asbestos, Risk communication, Policy perception