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EPA - Lean and Environment Toolkit Lean is well known for its focus and effectiveness to reduce waste specifically in production...

Some may be aware of an obscure but important guideline called ISO 19600 “Compliance Management System” which was introduced in 2014....

In past presentations I have spoken on the topic of risk which of course meant we also talked about dragons. Dragons, metaphorically...

A proactive and integrative approach to improve compliance effectiveness. Over the years working for companies in highly-regulated...

More than 75% of companies never measure the effectiveness of their risk & compliance programs. As a result they don't now if their...

When it comes to business, life, and of course compliance, there are dragons that come across our path that cannot or should not be...

The notion of debt or more specifically technical debt has proven to be a helpful metaphor when discussing financial costs with respect...

In this article we will look at a different kind of hazard. Not a physical hazard such as a toxic chemical or flammable gas which are...

Compliance systems are used to help companies stay between the lines as well as improve the certainty of meeting stakeholder obligations....

Compliance resiliency is important to maintain compliance in response to changes to business or business climate. For organizations to...

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

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

In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based designs. What we are seeing is only the beginning of a trickle down effect emerging from regulatory reform over the last few decades across regulatory jurisdictions and across the world. During this time an increasing number of regulatory bodies have started to modernized the function of regulation, its processes and practices, and how regulat

All too often companies find that they are only one accident, one explosion, one fatality, or one recall away from not only losing their...