Safe As 39: How biased are incident investigators?

Investigations are reputed to be ‘fact finding’ exercises: objective searches for facts and truth.

How what role does investigator bias play in constructing the incident findings?

Today’s article is: MacLean, C. L., & Dror, I. E. (2023). Measuring base-rate bias error in workplace safety investigators. Journal of safety research, 84, 108-116.

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