Error Analysis, Inc.

A Human Factors and Safety Consultancy.

Our work involves forensics, expert witness assignments in civil litigation, and projects. For thirty years, we have advised legal, insurance, public, and private clients with our specialized expertise about human behavior, design, and safety.  

Error Analysis, Inc.

About

Joe Cohen is the Principal Consultant for Error Analysis. Dr. Cohen is a board-certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) and Hazard Control Manager (CHCM). During his career, Joe has personally investigated more than a thousand injury cases for legal clients in fourteen American states. As a consultant or expert retained for litigation, Joe routinely addresses Human Factors issues in premises safety, product warnings, and forensic aspects of human performance in traffic crashes.

H. Harvey Cohen created Error Analysis, Inc. based on his work founding its predecessor company, Cohen and Associates. His work significantly advanced the practice of Human Factors in claims and litigation, most notably in the areas of occupational safety and personal injury. This followed a celebrated career of public service, scientific research, consulting, and writing. Among several other books, Dr. Harvey Cohen is a co-author of Slips, Trips, Missteps, and Falls: Causes and Prevention (3rd Edition, 2021), published by Lawyers & Judges Publishing. Harvey retired from consulting in 2017. He entered full retirement in 2023.

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Forensics

Claims in litigation is our primary source of work. Typically, we provide advanced analysis of falls, crashes, exposures, and other events that lead to injury. Issues we may address include compliance (e.g., safety management), standards, violations, dangerous conditions, unsafe acts, human behavior, hazard response and avoidance, (including sensation, perception, and cognition), impairments, fundamentals of biomechanics, and design of warnings, instructions, and other systems.

Projects

Error Analysis engages in projects that call for a specialist. This includes workplace studies or safety audits, workspace solutions, program development, program evaluation, education, training, writing, standards development, research, start-ups, and more.

Contact us about your project needs.
Error Analysis, Inc.

HUMAN FACTORS EXPERT

Joe Cohen is a Human Factors professional and safety specialist. A practitioner skilled in project and field work, Joe specializes in forensic and management consultations involving premises, products, traffic, and technology. His career experience includes work under contract as a consultant with various law firms and legal departments at the Federal, State, and local levels, business and industry clients Boeing, Con Edison, Zamboni Company USA, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, among others. He received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside, a M.A. in Applied-Experimental Psychology (Human Factors option) from California State University, Northridge, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial- Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University, also known as the California School of Professional Psychology. Joe is a husband and father of two teens. He also enjoys guitars, baseball, and his pet Shih Tzu.
Joseph Cohen, Ph.D.

JOSEPH COHEN, Ph.D.

Contact

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Error Analysis, Inc.
5173 Waring Road, Suite 157
San Diego, CA 92120