Forensic Science Laboratory Benchmarking: The FORESIGHT Manual [Paperback]

1. Why You Should Read This Book? 2. How Much Good Are You Doing?? 3. Key Performance Indicators? 4. Budgets? 5. Performance Is Everything, But What Is It?? 6. Strategy: Choosing What Not To Do? 7. What Next?? 8. Examples and Exercises

Forensic Laboratory Benchmarking and Improvement: The FORESIGHT Manual is an operational guidebook for managers, QA specialists, and testers at the hundreds of public laboratories around the world.

Forensic Science Laboratory Benchmarking: The FORESIGHT Manual takes a step-by-step instructional approach to utilizing FORESIGHT data, detailing how labs can participate in the process to improve efficiencies. The FORESIGHT Projecta business benchmarking process for forensic service providerswas created in 2008 to collect and report data while offering improvement to processes through analysis, comparisons, and best practice evaluations. The program has grown to include more than 200 participating forensic laboratories worldwide.

FORESIGHT offers the capability for labs to improve core functions, provide and benefit from metrics, and thus, improve the labs capabilities and functioning for the public good, while maintaining their often limited, fixed budgets. Due to ever-increasing caseloads, forensic laboratories are constantly plagued by backlogged caseworkcases submitted to the laboratory but not yet worked. This leads to inefficiencies, delays, and unhappy agencies expecting timely results. Unfortunately, even if a labs slates were wiped clean and the backlog were erased, many of the inefficient processesthat created the backlogwould still be in place. Eventually, and inevitably, the lab would develop a new backlog.

Unique coverage and features:

• Presents critical and proven cutting-edge measures to utilize FORESIGHT data improve laboratory testingl½