CBC Risk Management & Mitigation 5

Question 1

A captioner is hired for a 6-hour awards ceremony. The BEST fatigue-risk mitigation strategy is:

Accepted Answer

Scheduling a relay partner to switch every 20-30 minutes

Answer

CART and broadcast captioning standards recommend relay partners switching every 20-30 minutes to prevent accuracy degradation from cognitive fatigue.

Question 2

What is the purpose of a 'caption drop rate' metric in broadcast risk monitoring?

Accepted Answer

It measures the percentage of spoken words that are omitted from captions, flagging accuracy risk

Answer

Caption drop rate quantifies word omission frequency, a key accuracy KPI that signals when caption quality risk is rising.

Question 3

A steno-captioner's realtime translation dictionary has not been updated in 18 months. The RISK this creates is:

Accepted Answer

Outdated entries causing systematic mistranslation of new terminology and proper nouns

Answer

An outdated dictionary lacks entries for new terms, names, and acronyms, causing predictable and preventable translation errors.

Question 4

When a live caption feed is cut by a technical fault and resumes, the captioner should:

Accepted Answer

Resume captioning from the current live audio and log the gap with timestamps for the incident report

Answer

Resuming from live audio ensures viewers get current content while the timestamped gap log supports post-incident accountability and FCC documentation.

Question 5

A captioner discovers that their auto-save software failed and an entire broadcast session was not saved locally. The PRIMARY risk this exposes is:

Accepted Answer

Inability to provide a verbatim transcript for FCC audit, legal review, or client quality control

Answer

Without a saved session record, the captioner cannot fulfill regulatory or contractual obligations requiring verbatim transcript evidence.

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