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Compliance Principles, Practices, & Insights


Maintaining Safe Operations
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world so do the impacts on personnel as well as operational safety. There are a number of...


Where to Start Being Proactive
In a previous webinar I was asked this question with respect to compliance: Question: What would be the one area of an organization to...


Antifragile - the solution to aleatory uncertainty
When it comes to contending with risk it is important to have an understanding of the nature of uncertainty – the root cause of risk....


Risk-based SIPOC
Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty so make sure your process plan is a risk-adjusted plan. #riskmanagement


A Safety Management System for Everyone
Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...


Seeking the Wrong Goal
When it comes to systems the goals we choose greatly affect the outcomes that are obtained. This is particularly true when it comes to...


The Risk and Compliance Problem
The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...


Total Safety Management
Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...


The Dilution of Compliance
Dilution can be defined as "the process or action of making something less strong or valuable." Over the years I have experienced this...


A Measure of Integrity
Organizations and individuals make promises to meet obligations of all kinds. These might be in the form of duties, commitments,...


Compliance Now Requires a Design
Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...


A Better Way to Implement Purposeful Systems
Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...


System Improvement Requires Non-linear Thinking and Actions
Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach...


Towards a Systems KAIZEN
LEAN uses the Japanese word KAIZEN (change for the better) to communicate its intent with respect to continuous improvement. KAIZEN is a...


Is Risk Real?
For those who have been to Toronto, Canada you will know that one of the places you are likely to visit is the CN Tower. It remains as...


Operational Readiness
Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...
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