Have you ever had a conversation with a worker who didn’t want to wear their personal protective equipment? How about someone who was panicking due to an odor in the workplace, even after you demonstrated extremely low levels of exposure? The disconnect between your perspective and the worker’s can be viewed through the framework of risk perception.

Although significant progress has been made in diversity, equity, and inclusion, there is still a long way to go before these won’t be goals to be met but achievements to celebrate. In addition to the gap in demographic representation, there is another gap between the average salaries and wages paid to employees of different genders, races, and ethnicities.

Being prepared to collect data is vital. The better prepared an IH is, the more thorough an evaluation they can make. A more thorough evaluation yields a better assessment so the workers they protect will go home to their loved ones each day healthier and happier.