Public Sector Business Practice

Mid-America Research Institute provides services in safety and health research to federal and state agencies. The company’s major interests have been in the areas of public safety and transportation. A major sub-area of corporate interest involves the interaction of the legal system with public-sector organizations and with individual citizens.

Mid-America provides a variety of services within these areas, including:

# Development of research and analysis methods

# Survey research and field data collection

# Statistical analysis

# Risk analysis

# Problem identification

# Analysis of laws and regulations

# Needs assessment

# State-of-knowledge studies

# Description, analysis, and design of operating organizations and systems

# Design and operation of management systems

# Information system design and support

# Personnel development and training

# Evaluation

# Modeling and simulation

A given project may involve several of these services, for example, designing a nationwide survey to collect accident and exposure data; using those data to identify accident causes; and designing and evaluating methods to reduce the incidence of the accidents in the future.

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