What do you do with investigative facts? This concept is the foundation of your first step in an interview. You learn all the properties of a given fact and you do not just accept anything as fact before you know all of the “fact’s” properties. You ask all the ‘W’s
What do you do if your interviewee doesn’t understand what you’re asking because they lack capacity or because you expect that they lack capacity? It is very unlikely that you, as an investigator, can make a determination about someone’s capacity. There are certainly tests the layperson can utilize to determine
Issued by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), as of December 17, 2021, can now go into effect. The Sixth Circuit Court’s decision agreeing with the Biden administration that OSHA has the authority to develop an emergency standard to
What do I do about the kinds of conclusions that I can make? First, investigators do not make legal conclusions. Judges make conclusions of law. Since we are not judges and we are not juries, we do not make conclusions of law. We can talk about what is ‘more likely
What do you do to create an investigative report template? I would start with the Association of Workplace Investigators report templates. You do have to be a member to get them, but AWI’s templates are exceptional. At the end of the day, every report is somewhat unique, but very few
What do you do if your client hires you to investigate someone who tells you, “Oh, she’s just a feminist.”? From an investigative standpoint, I don’t know what that means. The academic concept of feminism is that everybody be treated equal regardless of your gender; however, people do not use
What do you do if you make an investigative exception? As investigators, the way that we can best avoid liability is by having consistent practices. And so, when we deviate from our consistent practice, we need to document why we did that. In all likelihood, any attention our deviation receives
How do you use investigative counts to help with your investigation? Investigative counts are simply counts of opinions of people that you’ve interviewed. So, if the accusation is that Tom is mean to men, and I talked to 10 people, I’m going to ask all 10 people, including Tom, if
What do you do if your investigation is very delayed? You explain it. We always have a duty to create a prompt investigation. Here in Texas now, since 2021, we have a duty to do an “immediate” investigation. Point is, it should be done as soon as possible, but sometimes
In the last 20 years, technology has rapidly changed our world in so many ways. Media, education, and healthcare have felt its impact. Let’s consider that today cellphones supersede people in number. According to the World Economic Forum, the early 2000s saw cellphone ownership at 740 million worldwide. Today there
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