Where to Make Compliance Improvements
Compliance programs, systems, and processes are often used interchangeably when referring to improvements. However, there are important...
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How To Conduct Scoping Interviews to Manage Personnel Changes
Changes to safety-critical positions in regulated industries must follow a process to manage risks associated with transitioning a new...
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5 Multipliers To Increase Compliance Advantage
In a previous blog, I outlined 5 threats to compliance. In this blog, I will look at how to address them. At first glance, it may seem...
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Why Compliance is Falling Behind
Meeting compliance is critical to those that work in highly regulated industries and specifically to those that are responsible for...
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What Benefit Does MOC Technology Provide?
Many organizations are required to have a Management of Change (MOC) procedure to manage risks introduced by planned changes to assets,...
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IS EDM DEAD?
Business processes require information to produce the desired outcomes. This information comes in various forms and is used in a variety...
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LEAN Paradox - Specialists versus Generalists
In a world that values specialists, individual workmanship and personal accountability the LEAN culture can seem foreign, threatening and...
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Critical Defeats - Managing the Last Line of Defense
Process safety refers to a systematic approach within industries to prevent and mitigate the occurrence of hazardous incidents and...
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Using LEAN 5M+E to Discover Probable Causes
A simple yet powerful way to discover causes to process problems is using the LEAN 5M+E (or 6M Six Sigma) analysis technique. This...
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To Maintain Safety it is Necessary to Properly Transition Safety-Critical Roles
Keeping people, processes, and the environment safe during facility changes is important to most companies and is a central part of every...
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Can Research into AI Safety Help Improve Overall Safety?
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive autonomous automobiles otherwise known as "self-driving cars" has in recent months...
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To Achieve Better Outcomes We Need to Pursue Outcomes that are Better
Continuous improvement is important and necessary to maintain sustainable programs. However, all too often, the pursuit of improvements...
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Reducing Compliance Debt Caused by Deferred Maintenance
Maintaining a facility, pipeline, or process is essential to operate safely. A key component of this is to choose the right maintenance...
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Operational Excellence - The Need for Empathy
Today's business climate is very competitive and there are demands coming from everywhere and everyone. There is constant and unrelenting...
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Improving the Management of Technical Information
Compliance programs depend on up to date technical information to support each process. This information includes such things as: process...
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When Is the Right Time to Introduce Technology?
Recently, I spoke with a client who answered this question by saying that technology can, when introduced too soon, short circuit the...
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What Do We Mean By Risk?
Effectively managing risk is essential to every business. To achieve this, companies will typically have several programs to address...
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Overlooked Benefits of an Effective Management of Change Program
Management of Change (MOC) is part of every effective process and pipeline safety program. Its purpose is to manage risk introduced by...
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Getting More from your Risk Registers
Risk registers are part of an effective risk program and used by companies to help communicate and manage risk. Spreadsheets are often...
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The Effects of Cyber Risk on Compliance Programs
On May 12th, the WanaCry (Wana Decrypt0r) worm began affecting computers worldwide. Among the many industries, companies, and...
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Engineering Lean Enablers - 7 Sources of Waste
Process and pipeline safety programs that manage change will include steps where engineering is required. To various degrees, these...
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Do You Need A Different System For Each Regulation?
The need to comply with regulations and standards is a necessary part of every business. In fact, companies need to comply with several...
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The Differences Between Managing Organizational and Asset Changes
Regulated organizations in the process and energy sectors must have a management of change (MOC) process to cover process safety related...
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Should Compliance (EHSS) Processes move to the Cloud?
Many organizations are considering moving some or all of their applications and systems to the "Cloud." This applies to both productivity...
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