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functions responsible for ensuring that all obligations connected with safety, security, sustainability, quality Every regulatory requirement, every quality standard, every environmental commitment, every customer measured by margins, but all the value that stakeholders demand: safety, security, sustainability, quality

Back in the 1980s a similar thing happened with the quality movement. Back then we strove to achieve zero-defects utilizing quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) What we have learned since then is that inspection and audits seldom improve quality. Instead quality needs to be designed into products, services, and processes. Today, we can't imagine managing quality without managing it in every part of the value creation process

Compliance as a category of programs is more akin to quality which has control and assurance functions but also strives to build quality into the design of products, services and all functions of the organization Instead of quality as job one or safety first programs, organizations now need to lead their risk & compliance

The focus on audits parallels similar approaches applied to quality, safety and environmental programs As an example, with quality it is well known that you cannot inspect quality into a product, you must Therefore to improve quality you need a proactive approach that anticipates, plans, and then acts to embed quality into the product and manufacturing processes. In high-risk industries this can easily be between 20%-30% to support all the necessary: quality, safety

things working together to produce the outcome of compliance: better safety, security, sustainability, quality

Over the last decade Lean tools and practices have expanded to consider quality, safety, and environmental This toolkit provides practical strategies and techniques to: “improve Lean results—waste elimination, quality

realizing the benefits that come from being in compliance: better safety, security, sustainability, quality You may have a management system for quality, environmental, safety, security and so on. contribute to meeting targets or advancing outcome associated with safety, security, sustainability, quality

call this Compliance 2 which compared with Compliance 1 is analogous to the difference between total quality management (TQM) and quality control & assurance (QC/QA), or Safety 1 and Safety 2 from the safety domain

However, we know that programs that support: quality, safety, risk, regulatory, environmental, and other

I then went on to implement quality management systems, document management, records management, data and quality control. We were contending with quality at the event horizon — the place where risk becomes a reality – and that Quality control was exposing what was hidden and made it visible. All these other steps: inspection, quality control, corrective actions, etc. tacked on at the end of

Enhanced production processes simultaneously improve compliance outcomes like safety and quality. When you enhance production quality, you simultaneously strengthen quality compliance. When you enhance production efficiency or operational delivery, do compliance outcomes like safety and quality

You're likely juggling safety regulations, security requirements, sustainability goals, quality standards When safety protocols don't align with security measures, or when quality controls conflict with sustainability coordination Domain-Specific Modules Safety Management Systems Security Operations Sustainability Programs Quality