Communities, anxiety, stress and anxiety, stress and inequity due to uneven ↓ ↓ ↓ households uncertainty for site managers uncertainty for residents due distribution of impacts and individuals and workers due to PFOS to PFOS concerns loss of amenity from ↓ concerns changed health behaviours changed food consumption ↓ due to PFOS concerns behaviours, e.g. seafood lifestyle disruption, such as anxiety, stress and ↓ ↓ travelling to access uncertainty due to PFOS PFOSrelated services concerns) externally imposed major loss of amenity from ↓ ↓ disruption to PFOS changed tourism and contamination, such as having recreation behaviours to move house loss of amenity from ↓ maintenance of family and changed health behaviours ↑ community connections preservation of nonuse ↑ loss of amenity from value of environment ↓ changed consumption and conflict with business and ↓ recreation behaviours government due to PFOS conflict with PFOS-using concerns ↓ industry and government uncertainty community ↓ certainty regarding sustainability due to PFOS ↑ community priorities and concerns sustainability public confidence and ↑ public confidence and trust in the ability of business and ↑ in the ability of business and government to manage all levels of government to environmental risks and health manage environmental risks concerns and health concerns Businesses uncertainty about business anxiety, stress and anxiety, stress and ↓ ↓ ↓ (including continuity, social licence to uncertainty due to business uncertainty due to business PFOS operate and liability due to impacts of PFOS concerns, impacts of PFOS concerns, PFOS concerns particularly for small particularly for small business conflict with businesses public confidence and trust ↓ ↑ businesses, the community public confidence and trust in the ability of business to ↑ and government due to PFOS in the ability of business to manage environmental risks concerns manage environmental risks and health concerns risk management outcomes and health concerns ↑ due to transition from PFOS Governments change or uncertainty due public confidence and trust public confidence and trust ↓ ↑ ↑ to PFOS concerns in the ability of government to in the ability of all levels of manage environmental risks government to manage and health concerns environmental risks and health concerns Notes: = increased effect / impact ↑ = decreased effect / impact ↓ Community impacts The following discussion of community impacts includes households and individuals. The analysis has not identified any costs of the proposed regulation to the community, households and individuals. Consumer costs are not expected to rise significantly due to the regulation of PFOS. The marketplace is highly competitive, with alternatives available for most uses, and the costs of
Communities, households and individuals ↓ anxiety, stress and uncertainty for site managers and workers due to PFOS concerns ↓ anxiety, stress and uncertainty for residents due to PFOS concerns ↓ changed health behaviours due to PFOS concerns ↓ lifestyle disruption, such as travelling to access PFOSrelated services ↓ externally imposed major disruption to PFOS contamination, such as having to move house ↑ maintenance of family and community connections ↓ loss of amenity from changed consumption and recreation behaviours ↓ conflict with PFOS-using industry and government ↑ certainty regarding community priorities and sustainability ↑ public confidence and trust in the ability of business and all levels of government to manage environmental risks and health concerns ↓ inequity due to uneven distribution of impacts ↓ loss of amenity from changed food consumption behaviours, e.g. seafood ↓ anxiety, stress and uncertainty due to PFOS concerns) ↓ loss of amenity from changed tourism and recreation behaviours ↓ loss of amenity from changed health behaviours ↑ preservation of nonuse value of environment ↓ conflict with business and government due to PFOS concerns ↓ uncertainty community sustainability due to PFOS concerns ↑ public confidence and in the ability of business and government to manage environmental risks and health concerns Businesses (including PFOS ↓ uncertainty about business continuity, social licence to operate and liability due to PFOS concerns ↓ conflict with businesses, the community and government due to PFOS concerns ↑ risk management outcomes due to transition from PFOS ↓ anxiety, stress and uncertainty due to business impacts of PFOS concerns, particularly for small businesses ↑ public confidence and trust in the ability of business to manage environmental risks and health concerns ↓ anxiety, stress and uncertainty due to business impacts of PFOS concerns, particularly for small business ↑ public confidence and trust in the ability of business to manage environmental risks and health concerns Governments ↓ change or uncertainty due to PFOS concerns ↑ public confidence and trust in the ability of government to manage environmental risks and health concerns ↑ public confidence and trust in the ability of all levels of government to manage environmental risks and health concerns Notes: ↑ = increased effect / impact ↓ = decreased effect / impact Community impacts The following discussion of community impacts includes households and individuals. The analysis has not identified any costs of the proposed regulation to the community, households and individuals. Consumer costs are not expected to rise significantly due to the regulation of PFOS. The marketplace is highly competitive, with alternatives available for most uses, and the costs of
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