Safety representatives in each of the six plants of a manufacturing company need to communicate to each other every week the number and type of health and safety incidents in their plant.Each representative has a safety reporting document where he or she checks off the type and number of infractions during the previous week.These incidents are well known to other representatives;there are rarely any surprises.This weekly communication calls for:
A)high media richness.
B)high emotional contagion.
C)mostly nonverbal communication.
D)face-to-face meetings.
E)relatively low media richness.

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The communication of routine and well-known information, such as the number and type of health and safety incidents, requires relatively low media richness. This is because the information is straightforward and does not require the immediate feedback or nuanced understanding that higher media richness would provide.

Safety Representatives in Each of the Six Plants of a Manufacturing