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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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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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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Maintaining Safe Operations
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world so do the impacts on personnel as well as operational safety. There are a number of...
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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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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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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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Safety Is Changing – Are You Ready?
Safety is changing and with it regulations, standards, and strategies. This is particularly the case in the area of people or worker...
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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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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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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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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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