Approaches to Improving Professional Judgment Accuracy

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• Personal Author:
  Arnold S ; Ramachandran G ; Stenzel M
• Description:
  Professional judgment plays a critical role in any field in which decisions must be made in the absence of a complete data set. Medical professionals, weather forecasters, financial analysts, and industrial hygienists all use professional judgment to facilitate decision making. Professional judgment, defined as "the application and appropriate use of knowledge gained from formal education, experience, experimentation, inference and analogy that reflects the capacity of an experienced professional to draw correct inferences from incomplete quantitative data, frequently on the basis of observations, analogy and intuition." In short, it ensures that in the face of uncertainty, inputs to decision making are considered and weighted appropriately. When following a comprehensive exposure assessment strategy such as the AIHA's Exposure Assessment Strategy (the Strategy outlined in this text, Chapters 1 through 11), hygienists assess all exposures, to all chemicals, for all workers. Implementation of such a strategy typically occurs at the task-level during all shifts (combination of tasks worked at various frequencies and durations in completing worker job responsibilities), resulting in tens, if not hundreds of thousands of exposure scenarios. The AIHA(R) Strategy provides an elegant and efficient framework for systematically evaluating all of them. There is a caveat: the strategy assumes that qualitative and quantitative exposure judgments are reasonably accurate. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Decision Making Exposure Assessment Industrial Hygiene Programs Industrial Hygienists Risk Assessment Workplace Monitoring
• ISBN:
  9781935082460
• Publisher:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  79-94
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064126
• Citation:
  Strategy for assessing and managing occupational exposures, 4th edition. Jahn SD, Bullock WH, Ignacio JS eds. Falls Church, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), 2015 Jan; :79-94
• Editor(s):
  Jahn SD; Bullock WH; Ignacio JS
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Strategy for assessing and managing occupational exposures, 4th edition
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222640/cdc_222640_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.33 MB ]