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A Systems Roadmap for API RP 1173

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

Return to the Gemba

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...

Lean Compliance A3 Format

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

Proactive vs. Predictive vs. Reactive

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

Two Steps Forward Three Steps Back

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

A Burning Platform of Reactive Compliance

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...

The Two Towers of Safety: Be Safe, Act Safe

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...

Problems Are Our Friends

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...

Integrated Risk Assessment

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

Where to add Proactive Processes

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

Is Your Culture Holding you Back?

The very culture that keeps companies in highly-regulated, high-risk industries safe may be the very thing that is holding them back from...

Lord of the Risks – The Two Towers: Productivity and Compliance

Those who have been following me might be aware of my presentations on demystifying risk entitled, Lord of The Risks – Defeating the...

Where you aim determines what you achieve

Rule # 2 - Take Ownership of All Your Obligations Being proactive with your compliance begins with taking ownership of all your...

Minimal Viable Performance (MVP)

Outcomes are the effects of capabilities which means that you if you want to advance your outcomes you need to advance your capabilities....

Capabilities Maturity Model for Compliance

Increasingly, we have observed that regulatory and standards bodies are expecting companies to use capability maturity models to improve...

Operating in the Presence of Uncertainty

Every business operates in the presence of uncertainty. This uncertainty creates the opportunity for risk. Compliance programs buy down...

Managing Compliance Obligations

Obligations come from many sources that include: regulations, standards, policies, mission and value statements, programs, processes, and...

Improving Management Systems

Almost all compliance initiatives depend on management systems to ensure obligations are met. This applies to safety, quality,...

Compliance Beetle Template

Turtle diagrams are often used to document processes in support of ISO standards and guidelines. However, they tend not to include...

Bow Tie Template

To help you achieve your outcomes we are offering a free copy of our Bow-Tie Analysis PowerPoint template. Our template incorporates...

Compliance Performance

Ethical and proactive organizations are those that invest in improving their compliance performance and see it as an advantage in...

Automating Looms and Toasters

This post is written by our guest blogger Barbara Kephart. Textiles from the Jacquard Loom Museum of Modern Art, New York City Photo by...

Not All Risks Matter

There is never enough time, knowledge, or resources to contend with all the risks that a company faces. Therefore, they must choose which...

Regulatory Compliance Not Enough

In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal they stated that the general duty clause in the Occupational Health and Safety Act,...