Introduction
The challenge for safety management is being rational within accepted rules of facts and logic on one hand, and considering values and opinions of the public on the other hand. Døderlein (1987) describes the role distribution in safety decisions as cycles between political value decisions and scientific endeavour. Leiss and Krewski (1989) make a similar distinction between the domain of technical risks (the expert sphere) and the domain of perceived risk (the public sphere).
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