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  • Ethical Compliance

    Whether you consider compliance in terms of safety, quality, or professional conduct, these are all closely in the control actions to adjust the management system and stay within compliance be it performance, safety You can replace the word ethical with "safety" or "quality" or "environmental" which are more concrete value creation system, according to this law, the system will always optimize away from "quality", "safety This may help explain the tensions that always exist between production and safety, or production and

  • The Foundations of Lean Compliance

    principle underlying both Lean Six Sigma in operations and compliance functions like quality management and safety This expansion requires redefining value beyond margin to include quality, safety, security, sustainability Total Value includes financial margin plus quality, safety, security, sustainability, and ethics, plus

  • Integrative Compliance: Embedding Regulatory Obligations in Operational Capability

    A promise to "conduct safety inspections" might be fulfilled by human operators. Enhanced production processes simultaneously improve compliance outcomes like safety and quality. When you improve safety processes, you build safety compliance capability. When you enhance production efficiency or operational delivery, do compliance outcomes like safety and choose between efficiency and compliance outcomes, between innovation and regulation, between speed and safety

  • Critical Defeats - Managing the Last Line of Defense

    Process safety refers to a systematic approach within industries to prevent and mitigate the occurrence The primary goal of process safety is to ensure the protection of personnel, the environment, and assets To minimize the likelihood and consequence of accidents, safety barriers (i.e. guardrails) are put in Examples of safety critical equipment include: Safety instrumented systems DCS or PLC shutdowns and What safety critical equipment is missing from the procedure?

  • What is Management of Change

    is required by EMP-RMP, OSHA 1910.119, NEB, API RP 1173, CSA Z767-17, ICH, and now part of ISO 45001 Safety to plan, implement, and manage change to prevent or mitigate unintended consequences that affect the safety Here is a list of examples: covered processes covered pipeline segments high consequence areas safety critical roles or positions safety critical procedures safety critical equipment or assets and so on API Recommended Practice 1173 – Pipeline Safety Management 8.4 Management of Change (MOC) 8.4.1 General

  • The Effects of Cyber Risk on Compliance Programs

    This should increase the level of concern as to an organization's ability to operate safety should a similar to the WanaCry worm could disrupt an organization's ability to: Shutdown a process Make safety However, aligning cyber security with process safety programs continues to be an important challenge perfect time to review and evaluate the effectiveness of your cyber security, emergency preparedness, and safety

  • Compliance 1 and 2

    to the difference between total quality management (TQM) and quality control & assurance (QC/QA), or Safety 1 and Safety 2 from the safety domain.

  • Don't Make This Costly Mistake With Your Compliance Controls

    In fact, failing to recognize the nuanced differences between compliance requirements in areas like safety Consider the common control around "training requirements": Safety Training : Focused on preventing workplace training" program may fulfill the letter of the law, but leaves gaps in critical areas like workplace safety with you to: Identify the distinct properties, dependencies, and risk implications of controls across safety

  • An Objective View of Obligations

    An Example From Occupational Safety In this example we will look at making progress towards zero safety For our purposes we will define as the outcome of our safety compliance system as zero incidents . up to date safe-work procedures and practices Establish and maintain an effective joint health and safety effective emergency response system Conduct a yearly risk and hazard assessment Reduce the level of safety And finally, objectives may be connected with other safety obligations. What does this all mean?

  • AI Governance, Guardrails and Lampposts

    AI governance should incorporate guardrails (e.g., safety and security protocols) and lampposts (e.g. AI Safety Policies: Measures to prevent harm and ensure robust testing and monitoring of AI systems. organizations need a structured, proactive approach to AI governance, integrating policies, ethical codes, safety

  • Compliance Now Requires a Design

    Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety canvas demonstrates how this looks like for a Management of Change (MOC) sub-system for a Pipeline Safety subsystem, effectiveness can be defined as: Management of change is effective when it keeps pipeline safety As safety is an emergent property of an overall safety system the design step requires knowledge and skills in system design, cybernetic controls, and risk-based strategies to ensure that safety is advanced

  • We Don't Protect What We Don't Value

    By neglecting safety regulations, environmental standards, or ethical practices, a company puts its reputation , integrity, and even the safety of its employees at risk. This may lead to non-compliance with safety and security regulations along with breaking promises made to stakeholders to achieve adequate safety and security performance targets.

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