From the Editor's Desk

Communication

Abstract

I was once in a meeting with a program manager (PM), where we were discussing the risk associated with some mishap scenarios. The PM stated, “I do not understand or care about anything that has less than a 10 percent chance of happening.” That pretty much included all the safety-related mishaps. It became clear that we were having “a failure to communicate” that we had to overcome. The first technical paper in this issue, “Speaking Risk with Our Project Managers” by Dustin Nix, John Fellows and Dr. John Hall, gives some insight as to how we might solve our communication problems.