Risk communication is traditionally authored by institutions and addressed to the potentially affected publics for whom they are responsible. This study expands the scope of risk communication by analyzing safety guides produced by a hypermarginalized group for whom institutions show no responsibility: full-contact, street-level sex workers. Using corpus-assisted discourse analysis and keyword analysis to reveal patterns of word choices, the authors argue that the safety guides exhibit characteristics and qualities of professional communication: audience adaptation, social responsibility, and ethical awareness. This area of inquiry—the DIY, peer-to-peer, extrainstitutional risk communication produced by marginalized people—widens technical and professional communication's approach to risk communication.

传统上，风险沟通由机构撰写，面向他们负责的潜在受影响公众。本研究通过分析由机构不承担任何责任的高度边缘化群体制定的安全指南，扩大了风险交流的范围：全面接触的街头性工作者。作者使用语料库辅助的话语分析和关键字分析来揭示单词选择的模式，作者认为安全指南展示了专业交流的特征和品质：受众适应、社会责任和道德意识。这一探究领域——由边缘化人群进行的 DIY、点对点、机构外风险交流——拓宽了技术和专业交流的风险交流方法。