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

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...

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:...

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...

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

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

At a fundamental level compliance programs protect the value stream from threats that hinder the creation of value. Each program contributes to keeping the value chain safe from various risk including: quality risk, occupational safety risk, security risk, and so on. These programs are socio-technical in nature in that they recognize the interaction between people and technology often across multiple levels of organization. Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework (also known as

Safety is changing and with it regulations, standards, and strategies. This is particularly the case in the area of people or worker...

Professor Andrew Hopkins shares his insights on how organizational structure, communication, and habitual practices advance safety...

There is much discussion these days about the need to create an improved safety culture particularly in high-risk, highly-regulated...

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...

In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal they stated that the general duty clause in the Occupational Health and Safety Act,...

Audits were first adopted by financial institutions to identify and prevent fraud. Their focus was to test the integrity of accounting...