The Most Important Risk Control
Change can be and often is a significant source of risk for organizations. That is why managing risk resulting from change is one of the...
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- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Manage Legal Risk with ISO 31022:2020
Earlier this year (May 2020) the International Standards Organization (ISO) published their legal risk management guidelines, ISO...
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- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
Two Kinds of Compliance Resiliency
Compliance resiliency is important for organizations to maintain compliance in response to changes to business or business climate. For...
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- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
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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- 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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- Apr 21, 2020
- 4 min
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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- Apr 18, 2020
- 9 min
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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- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Pro-activity is the Key to Addressing Risk
To meet all your obligations at the speed of risk you must be proactive which is characterized by focusing more on: Forward Planning over...
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- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
Risk Based process Safety During Disruptive Times
The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) recently published a monograph that provides insights for managing Process Safety during ...
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- Apr 9, 2020
- 5 min
The Pursuit of Opportunities in the Presence of Uncertainty
In this article I want to discuss what is going on with the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to risk. The first risk will be what every one...
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- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
2020 The State of Risk Oversight
NC State University each year publishes their research on the state of risk oversight. The latest version is available reflecting input...
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- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Capabilities Driven Business Canvas
A principle that is easily forgotten is that to change outcomes you need to change your capabilities. Michael Porter's value chain...
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- Mar 26, 2020
- 1 min
The Four Cornerstones of Resilience
Erik Hollnagel writes in the book Resilience Engineering (2009) that companies are resilient if they are: able to adjust their...
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- Mar 25, 2020
- 1 min
NEW COMPLIANCE RESILIENCY PROGRAM
Companies need effective risk & compliance systems to ensure they stay between the lines during normal operations and even more so during...
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- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
Uncertainty and Risk
Given that uncertainty and risk are on everyone's minds we have decided to go ahead and offer this workshop so you could benefit from...
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- Mar 14, 2020
- 1 min
A Hidden and Untapped Reserve
One of the ways we contend with uncertainty is by having reserves. These are additional resources that can be made available to address a...
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- Mar 5, 2020
- 5 min
Antifragile - the solution to aleatory uncertainty
When it comes to contending with risk it is important to have an understanding of the nature of uncertainty – the root cause of risk....
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- Mar 2, 2020
- 1 min
Risk-based SIPOC
Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty so make sure your process plan is a risk-adjusted plan. #riskmanagement
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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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- Feb 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Risk and Compliance Problem
The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...
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- Feb 6, 2020
- 3 min
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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- Jan 25, 2020
- 3 min
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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- Jan 18, 2020
- 1 min
A Better Way to Implement Purposeful Systems
Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...
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