The Problem with Assessments
Assessments are the fuel that power both step-wise and continuous improvement engines and this is no different when it comes to risk &...
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Compliance Needs A New Mindset
After years under the tutelage of prescriptive rules and audits it is no wonder that the question of what and how to improve compliance...
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Outcome-based Specifications
The focus on value-based outcomes has become a dominant approach in the health care sector over the last few decades. It has also made...
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Agile Compliance
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...
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Better Compliance Done a Better Way
According to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And yet, that is...
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Are You Auditing What Really Matters?
Audits have been used for many years to confirm the integrity of financial statements and that proper accounting procedures have been...
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Problem-solving in Highly-regulated, High-risk Industries
The practice of continuous improvement is gaining traction within an across all industries. It goes by different names such as:...
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Essential Properties For A Managed Pipeline Safety Program
The topic of what is essential is on the minds of many individuals, organizations, and governments certainly with respect to navigating...
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Total Safety Management
Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...
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Compliance Now Requires a Design
Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...
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Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework
At a fundamental level compliance programs protect the value stream from threats that hinder the creation of value. Each program...
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Voluntary Information Sharing
Many of us participate in consumer platforms that collect and use data to improve their products, operations, and ultimately profits....
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How Structures Create Cultures
Professor Andrew Hopkins shares his insights on how organizational structure, communication, and habitual practices advance safety...
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What is Management of Change
Change can be a significant source of risk. That is why compliance programs include a risk-based process for managing planned changes....
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A Systems Roadmap for API RP 1173
API RP 1173 provides a framework for companies to evaluate their safety systems and processes to more effectively buy down risk and...
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The Two Towers of Safety: Be Safe, Act Safe
When it comes to safety there are two schools of thought. The oldest one is focused on behavior and its by-line is, "Act Safe." This is...
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Regulatory Compliance Not Enough
In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal they stated that the general duty clause in the Occupational Health and Safety Act,...
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Tyrannical Compliance
Companies often consider compliance as a "necessary evil" rather than a "necessary good." They sometimes feel they are forced to comply...
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API RP 1173 – Taking Ownership of Your Obligations
"Pipeline process management includes determination of needs throughout the pipeline life-cycle, provision of sufficient human and...
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Four Misuses of Audits
Audits were first adopted by financial institutions to identify and prevent fraud. Their focus was to test the integrity of accounting...
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Managing Risk During Lean Improvements
LEAN approaches have been used across many industries for decades with great success. However, there are some industries were using LEAN...
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How To Conduct Scoping Interviews to Manage Personnel Changes
Changes to safety-critical positions in regulated industries must follow a process to manage risks associated with transitioning a new...
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Critical Defeats - Managing the Last Line of Defense
Process safety refers to a systematic approach within industries to prevent and mitigate the occurrence of hazardous incidents and...
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To Maintain Safety it is Necessary to Properly Transition Safety-Critical Roles
Keeping people, processes, and the environment safe during facility changes is important to most companies and is a central part of every...
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