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Change can be and often is a significant source of risk for organizations. That's why managing risk resulting from change is one of the...

Earlier this year (May 2020) the International Standards Organization (ISO) published their legal risk management guidelines, ISO...

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

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

According to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And yet, that is...

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

The practice of continuous improvement is gaining traction within an across all industries. It goes by different names such as:...

The topic of what is essential is on the minds of many individuals, organizations, and governments certainly with respect to navigating...

To meet all your obligations at the speed of risk you must be proactive which is characterized by focusing more on: Forward Planning over...

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) recently published a monograph that provides insights for managing Process Safety during ...

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...

NC State University each year publishes their research on the state of risk oversight. The latest version is available reflecting input...

A principle that is easily forgotten is that to change outcomes you need to change your capabilities. Michael Porter's value chain...

Erik Hollnagel writes in the book Resilience Engineering (2009) that companies are resilient if they are: able to adjust their...

Companies need effective risk & compliance systems to ensure they stay between the lines during normal operations and even more so during...

This event has already occurred. Given that uncertainty and risk are on everyone's minds we have decided to go ahead and offer this...

One of the ways we contend with uncertainty is by having reserves. These are additional resources that can be made available to address a...

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

Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty so make sure your process plan is a risk-adjusted plan. #riskmanagement

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

The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...

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

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

Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...