OBJECTIVE OSHA's enforcement program is one of the major public efforts to protect American workers. We examine both the scope of injury prevention that inspections can contribute and the types of standards that contribute the most. METHODS We linked Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry files for lost-time injuries and employment to calculate injury rates for 1998-2005 for all single...

Recent research suggests that people related issues account for as much as 50% of explained sources of variation in software code inspections and that process related issues account for less than 30%. This paper examines the impact of two feedback mechanisms (process maturity and inspector proficiency) on software inspections. Results of a survey of thirty-one experienced software developers an...

Results: It is argued that the model of judgement used makes various assumptions which throw into doubt the notion that such inspections provide an objective picture of quality in healthcare. However, the contrary view, that such inspections are highly subjective, is rejected in favour of developing a perspective informed by the later philosophy of Wittgenstein; one which recognises the importa...

Usability inspections are a cost-effective alternative to conventional usability testing for evaluating and improving the usability of software and Web-based systems. The collaborative usability inspection technique described here is a highly structured, scenario-driven inspection process optimized for rapidly identifying, classifying, and prioritizing usability defects. The process has been re...

Software inspections are a software engineering “best practice” for detecting and correcting defects in software artifacts, including requirements, design, code and test cases. Because defects are detected early in the software development process, software inspection improves software quality and reduces rework, thus saving time and costs. As a software process, inspections are adopted in many...

Vaccine developers are required to submit a clinical trial application to the authorities in each country where a clinical trial will be conducted. The application has to be made both to the relevant Ethics Committees and to the National Regulatory Authorities, and only after appropriate clearance by both can a clinical trial commence. This paper describes two specific strategies, joint reviews...

Principles from software inspections, use cases and operational profile testing are combined into the usage-based reading technique (UBR). The goal is to provide an efficient reading technique for software inspections, which takes the user viewpoint on the software and the faults it may contain. The user reads, for example, a design document guided by prioritized use cases. An experimental eval...