Sir,?In your issue of 12th September 1904, under the heading of "Reviews," you notice a new Medical Journal published in Madras, and repeat unwittingly a very gross misstatement in the leading article of its first issue, which is likely to damage the status of a hard-working body of men in this Presidency, known as Certificated Sanitary Inspectors? and not 0. S. I.'s as the author, with stale a...

This paper reports design implications based on an ethnographic study of an occupational group at the Swedish National Road Administration-Production. One specific condition of the road inspectors work situation is their ongoing movement while conducting their work, this factor do also limit their possibilities to perform a decent work. Findings from the empirical fieldwork indicate that the sy...

ABSTRACT I examine inspector-auditor interactions and test proposed changes to the existing inspection process using a stylized experiment with real-effort repeated interactions. first show that when holding incentives constant, if inspectors perceive request additional audit work, they escalate their deficiency assessments more work. then increasing discussions before formally assess auditors’...

This report identifies strategies used by public health inspectors in the Central West Region of Ontario during restaurant inspections, based on and comparing the perceptions of inspectors, their managers, and restaurant operators. Factors influencing the choice of strategies are reviewed, putting into perspective the importance of manager and policy expectations relative to other influences ex...

In the present work inspectors used Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour in inspectees. MI is a counselling method with scientific support for various health behaviour changes. Inspectors (n = 32) in four Swedish municipalities received training in MI over a yearlong period. Their MI competency as well as their experience of using MI in routine inspect...

The Breathe Easy at Home Program enables clinicians to refer asthmatic patients to Boston Inspectional Services Department (ISD) if they suspect housing conditions trigger symptoms. The authors conducted one-on-one interviews with clinicians (n = 10) who referred patients, and focus groups with inspectors from the ISD (n = 9) and a variety of stakeholders (n = 13), to gain insight into program ...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES We examined the effect of two interventions on both the reliability and validity of regulatory judgments: adjusting the regulatory instrument and attending a consensus meeting. METHOD We adjusted the regulatory instrument. With a randomized controlled trial (RCT) we examined the effect of the adjustments we made to the instrument. In the consensus meeting inspec...