Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Research reports
People who have to make important decisions often rely on others
for specialist advice on topics where they themselves are not
experts. Those decisions become much harder when differences of
opinion arise about the specialist issues or their significance for
the decision. Such differences might be among the experts
themselves, or between the decision maker and the experts, or
between the decision maker and other parties interested in the
decision.
This is the report of a "quick look" research project to
explore practice and expectations in dealing with differences of
expert opinion, carried out during November and December 2001. It
has been prepared for the Health and Safety Executive by Tony Taig
of TTAC Limited.
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