Christine Thomas

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ERM Infrastructure

It is imperative to answer these questions before you get into Enterprise Risk Management to ensure that you are utilizing risk in the management of your enterprise. Your understanding and assessment of your organization’s risks sho...

Negligence and Ignorance: Which is Deadlier?

According to the US Bureau of Labor statistics, there were a few positive things to point out regarding incidence rates of injuries over the past year. There was no increase in the rate of injuries and illnesses for the private i...

BSEE Discontinuing Seven-Day Courtesy Notification of Annual Compliance Audit and Engaging in Environmental Enforcement

Should they or Shouldn't they? For the entirety of my 35 years in offshore BSEE and MMS, before they always gave the offshore operator a phone notification that compliance inspectors would be making their annual compliance inspecti...

Is Knowing Enough? Compliance vs. Safety

Safety is a result of Compliance. Many believe that safety is the number one goal, but is knowing how to do things safely enough motivation for people to actually do them? For example, everybody knows the poor effects smoking has on ...