We don't represent anyone. Our role is a neutral one, and we make that very clear to the people we interact with. It's part of our standard introduction. We're not representing anyone's interests. We are primarily neutral fact finders where we collect information from the parties when there are parties, witnesses, or generically other employees in cases that are occurrences or incidents. Then we collect those facts. We collect other evidence. We make factual findings based on the information we collect. Depending upon our mandate, in many cases we're asked to then take those facts,. and measure them against a policy, and draw some conclusions about whether we think a policy has been violated. That's our role.
On February 28th, 2018. See this statement in context.