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Pro-activity can be applied at any level within an organization. However, it is primarily the role of management programs achieved by...

Assessments are the fuel that power both step-wise and continuous improvement engines and this is no different when it comes to risk &...

After years under the tutelage of prescriptive rules and audits it is no wonder that the question of what and how to improve compliance...

When it comes to management-based standards and regulations they almost all include a requirement for Management Review. The purpose of a...

Organizations of all shapes and sizes utilize systems to ensure that the right work gets done at the right time in the right way. In fact...

Audits have been used for many years to confirm the integrity of financial statements and that proper accounting procedures have been...

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

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

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

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

At a fundamental level compliance programs protect the value stream from threats that hinder the creation of value. Each program contributes to keeping the value chain safe from various risk including: quality risk, occupational safety risk, security risk, and so on. These programs are socio-technical in nature in that they recognize the interaction between people and technology often across multiple levels of organization. Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework (also known as

The administration problem is primarily that of reducing uncertainty within the organizational system (Organizational Strategy,...

Machines, organizations, and communities include and are themselves part of systems. Systems Thinking Russell L. Ackoff, a pioneer in...

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

When it comes to playing games where the goal is to have fun “Best Effort” is often applauded and even celebrated. We often hear...

4 types of obligations 4 compliance functions 4 purposes 4 measures

Lagging versus Leading Indicators The Challenge Counting near misses, incidents, defects, violations, and other non-conformance is of value and necessary as part of prescriptive: regulation, industry standards, and internal policies. However, when it comes to complying with performance and outcome-based commitments where the goal is to achieve zero fatalities, zero explosions, zero violations, and zero defects then you need a risk-based process that uses proactive actions inf

The purpose of a compliance management system is to maintain state which is achieved through consistency, reduction of variation, and...

API RP 1173 provides a framework for companies to evaluate their safety systems and processes to more effectively buy down risk and...

I have spent most of my career building information and management systems in support of engineering, compliance, and mission critical...

In response to increasing and often overlapping requirements from standards and regulatory bodies, many companies are looking to...

Minimal Viable Compliance / Performance Outcomes are the effects of capabilities which means that if you want to advance your outcomes...

Increasingly, we have observed that regulatory and standards bodies are expecting companies to use capability maturity models to improve...

Almost all compliance initiatives depend on management systems to ensure obligations are met. This applies to safety, quality,...