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There are times when leadership sets their gaze on operations in order to better delight their customers, increase margins, or improve operational excellence. This gaze for many companies has translated into a journey of continuous improvement – the playground for LEAN. All across the world companies have embraced LEAN principles and practices in almost every business sector. In many cases, LEAN initiatives have produced remarkable results and for some created a new “way of o

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

Change can be a significant source of risk. That is why compliance programs include a risk-based process for managing planned changes....

When it comes to playing games where the goal is to have fun “Best Effort” is often applauded and even celebrated. We often hear...

GRC is an acronym for: governance, risk, and compliance which originated from the management consulting world to describe processes...

4 types of obligations 4 compliance functions 4 purposes 4 measures

Compliance creates value by building trust when obligations are met and protects against the erosion of value when they are not. To...

When it comes to performance-based compliance you need to manage both compliance and obligation risk. Compliance risk are the effects of...

It is only by anticipating, planning, and acting that prevents risks from becoming a reality.

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

There are many places in business where performance is critical and the drive to excel pushes organizations beyond their current limits...

Compliance functions tend to be lightly resourced and often overwhelmed doing the best they can to help organizations meet all their...

In manufacturing, to improve responsiveness to customer demand, LEAN uses pull to expose waste which is then eliminated or reduced to...

Lagging versus Leading Indicators The Challenge Counting near misses, incidents, defects, violations, and other non-conformance is of value and necessary as part of prescriptive: regulation, industry standards, and internal policies. However, when it comes to complying with performance and outcome-based commitments where the goal is to achieve zero fatalities, zero explosions, zero violations, and zero defects then you need a risk-based process that uses proactive actions inf

The purpose of a compliance management system is to maintain state which is achieved through consistency, reduction of variation, and...

API RP 1173 provides a framework for companies to evaluate their safety systems and processes to more effectively buy down risk and...