Effect of training on exposure judgment accuracy of industrial hygienists

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 242-256

  Vadali, Monika ^a   Ramachandran, Gurumurthy ^a   Mulhausen, John R ^b   Banerjee, Sudipto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

bias in exposure judgment; data interpretation exposure judgment accuracy; professional judgment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; JUDGMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859969566     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2012.666470     Document Type: Review

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