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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...


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 ...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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


Gratitude
I was thinking this morning about all the ways that life is able to go on even in the midst and you might say in spite of the corona...


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...


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...


Where to Start Being Proactive
In a previous webinar I was asked this question with respect to compliance: Question: What would be the one area of an organization to...


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....


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


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


Seeking the Wrong Goal
When it comes to systems the goals we choose greatly affect the outcomes that are obtained. This is particularly true when it comes to...
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