Organizational

Organizational and Personal, Age Issues Affecting Performance and accidents, & Engineering

Organizational & Personnel Issues

Federal laws specify requirements to protect workers from discrimination and harassment. We evaluate organizations' policies and practices as well as the conduct of management and employees.

Sexual Harassment

  • Employee and management expectations

  • Policies and procedures

  • Title VII

  • Safety climate

  • Management

  • Employee responsibilities

Discrimination

  • Employment discrimination

  • Adverse impact

  • Wrongful termination

  • Title VII

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

  • Workplace accessibility

  • Policies and procedures

Age Issues Affecting Performance & Accidents

There are many age-related issues that should be considered when investigating accidents that occur among preschoolers, adolescents and older people. Research in psychology provides us with insight into developmental issues for many age groups. By combining our knowledge of forensic human factors and psychology, we have developed age-related guidelines to consider when evaluating incidents and developing injury prevention programs.

Preschoolers

  • Developmental changes

  • Perceptions

  • Visual field

  • Cognitive ability

  • Attending skills

  • Problem solving

  • Children and traffic

school children

Adolescents

  • Risk perception

  • Peer influence

  • Social "rules"

  • Limit-testing

  • Impulsive behavior

  • Independence

  • Problem solving

Effects of Aging

  • Vision

  • Mobility

  • Changes in walking

  • Changes in balance

  • Effect of medications

  • Aging and driving

  • Perception-reaction time

  • Individual differences

Engineering

Our Engineering expert is a bioengineer (U.C. Berkeley) with expertise, experience, and a course of study of the complex interaction between outside forces on the human body and its systems and the nature, type, and characteristic injuries associated with the forces. In motor vehicle collision cases, our experts examine radiology images, medical records, coroner/autopsy reports, photographs and measurements, and surveys of the vehicles. Armed with this information, he determines what forces were applied to the vehicles and the bodies to provide to the medical experts who can evaluate whether the resulting injuries are consistent with the type and direction of forces applied. Engineering experts can also shed light on the directional path of a pedestrian moments before an impact based on the nature of the injuries and the focal nature of the impact.

Construction worksite