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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- Apr 23, 2020
- 3 min
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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- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
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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- Feb 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Safety Management System for Everyone
Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...
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- May 23, 2019
- 8 min
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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- Apr 21, 2019
- 1 min
How do you change culture?
There is much discussion these days about the need to create an improved safety culture particularly in high-risk, highly-regulated...
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- Nov 15, 2018
- 1 min
Compliance Beetle Template
Turtle diagrams are often used to document processes in support of ISO standards and guidelines. However, they tend not to include...
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- Aug 20, 2018
- 3 min
Confessions of a QA Manager
We thought we were doing OK. We really did. I guess we were wrong. We consider ourselves an ethical company and take quality very...
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- Aug 17, 2018
- 1 min
Why is focusing on non-conformance missing the point?
Focusing on non-conformance is the first level of compliance. This involves meeting the prescriptive part of a regulation or industry...
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- Aug 11, 2018
- 1 min
Emergent Uncertainty
We expect that as systems improve that the certainty of meeting objectives increases. Instead, what often happens is that systems become...
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