Competence is a judgment about one's ability to perform important tasks. Like all judgments, it’s embedded with bias, so much so that psychologists use a special term to describe it: the illusion of ...

In the business of safety, we talk about competency and use the term “competent person.” OSHA refers to and requires competent persons in several of its standards and defines the term as “one who is ...

What's driving demand for more outsourced work in oil and gas? North American companies in the oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing and other capital-intensive industries will be hard-pressed to find ...