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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...

One of the principles we learn from LEAN is that: If you can't see it you can't improve it. We also talk about going to the GEMBA (scene...

The A3 Format and DMAIC are structured processes used for LEAN / Six Sigma improvements and problem solving. While these have proven to...

Predictive analytics is a topic of much discussion these days and is considered by some to be a proactive measure against safety,...

I have spent most of my career building information and management systems in support of engineering, compliance, and mission critical...

Do we now have a burning platform with respect to reactive compliance? On May 16 2018, a report was published following a review led by...

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...

Back when I was in high school I had a teacher that would always say, "problems are our friend." At the time I didn't get it, probably...

In response to increasing and often overlapping requirements from standards and regulatory bodies, many companies are looking to...

"Proactivity is a process that can be applied to any set of actions through anticipating, planning, and striving to have an impact." ​...