Sarah Hamilton

Recently, falls are amongst the most common causes of serious work related injuries and deaths, requiring employers not only to set up the work place that prevents employees from falling off of overhead platforms, elevated work statio...

Many companies have some type of risk management program in place, but many still do not. For those that do, the efficiency of the program is often challenging especially when it comes to one key driver of risk: regulations and standa...

Many organizations are being heavily regulated and the idea of staying compliant with changing regulations, and policy & procedures is an on-going challenge. Almost daily one comes across a news item informing us of penalty or fin...

Increasing complexity in the regulatory environment is driving organizations to seek a holistic and highly integrated approach to manage the entire life cycle of their audit management processes. Try applying the following four key ...

An effective safety plan ensures that when a task is carried out at workplace, every precaution has been taken to reduce the likelihood of an incident that leaves someone injured or worse. Try applying the following Five-Step Safety P...

Effective Performance management is much more than simply following regulatory requirements to annually rate employee’s performance. It involves synergy at all organizational levels, in devising methods to plan, track, and review em...

In today’s world, the explosion of social media, new mobile technologies and big data has brought about a new era of transparency, exposing illegal transactions and raising new ethical questions in the way business is conducted. In ...

The Whistleblower Programs, established by regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 that provides monetary incentiv...

Are You Still Relying on Spreadsheets for Safety Management? Or do you have an automated and integrated safety management system at your workplace? Unfortunately many organizations today are still relying on spreadsheets to track t...

Does “should” really mean “shall”? In the world of banking supervision and regulation, there is a familiar, longstanding frequency to the issuance of new guidance: regulators issue new guidance; banks analyze and interpret it...