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 resources available cont...

Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different skills than impleme...

Change can be a significant source of risk. That is why compliance programs include a risk-based process for managing planned changes. This process is commo...

It is often when new recruits are hired that although they are trained on the new processes and procedures (which takes time) they will still have their intu...

Change can be (and often is) a significant source of new risk. As a result, many companies have implemented the basics when it comes to Management of Change ...

A critical process used in safety, quality, environment, and regulatory programs is the process that manages change. The reason for this is that change creat...

Compliance is fundamentally about reducing stakeholder risk: risk to quality, risk to safety, risk to the environment, and ultimately risk to trust. Complian...

Cost reduction programs while sometimes necessary all too often end up removing value and expose companies to unnecessary risk. Deferring maintenance, not do...

Many companies are in the midst of adopting changes introduced by ISO 9001:2015. One of the most significant of these, is incorporating "Risk-based Thinking....

LEAN approaches have been used across many industries for decades with great success. However, there are some industries were using LEAN for process improvem...

Many organizations are required to have a Management of Change (MOC) procedure to manage risks introduced by planned changes to assets, processes, facilities...

A simple yet powerful way to discover causes to process problems is using the LEAN 5M+E (or 6M Six Sigma) analysis technique. This approach considers 6 categ...

Effectively managing risk is essential to every business. To achieve this, companies will typically have several programs to address different sources of ris...

Management of Change (MOC) is part of every effective process and pipeline safety program. Its purpose is to manage risk introduced by implementing planned c...

Process and pipeline safety programs that manage change will include steps where engineering is required. To various degrees, these activities will include:...

Regulated organizations in the process and energy sectors must have a management of change (MOC) process to cover process safety related changes to plants, p...

Innovation is necessary for growth and often requires that risks are taken. However, a common sentiment is that compliance is getting in the way. Compliance...

Safety regulations and guidelines across North America call out for the need to manage risk due to organizational changes. Ensuring that safety critical role...