Risk Management & Mitigation Flashcards
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A captioner's software crashes 20 minutes into a 2-hour live broadcast. Which pre-established protocol minimizes audience caption blackout?
Answer: Activating a pre-loaded secondary caption workstation on a separate machine
A warm-standby second workstation can take over in seconds, minimizing blackout, unlike other options that take minutes or longer.
Which scenario represents a 'single point of failure' risk in a captioner's home studio setup?
Answer: Relying on one ISP with no cellular backup
A single ISP with no redundancy means any ISP-side outage immediately halts caption delivery with no fallback.
What does 'latency risk' specifically refer to in live broadcast captioning?
Answer: Risk that captions will appear too long after the spoken words for viewers to follow
Excessive caption latency detaches text from speech, reducing comprehension value for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.
A captioner receives a last-minute assignment for a high-profile political debate with no prep materials. The BEST risk response is:
Answer: Accept and request a 30-second delay buffer to allow for corrections
A delay buffer allows real-time review and correction, directly mitigating the accuracy risk caused by lack of preparation time.
A captioner works across three simultaneous client accounts. The PRIMARY scheduling risk this creates is:
Answer: Double-booking or overlap conflicts causing a broadcast to go uncaptioned
Managing multiple client schedules without a conflict-checking system raises the probability of booking two live events at the same time.
Which action BEST reduces the risk of caption quality complaints after a breaking-news broadcast?
Answer: Conducting a real-time caption quality monitor and flagging errors for post-broadcast review
Real-time monitoring combined with a structured post-broadcast review process identifies errors and provides documentation to address complaints.
A captioner's stenography machine develops intermittent key-ghosting errors during a broadcast. The IMMEDIATE risk mitigation is:
Answer: Switch to a backup keyboard or re-shadow with a second steno unit if available
Switching to a backup input device maintains output continuity while the faulty machine is diagnosed and repaired.