Sarah Hamilton

When companies are looking to purchase regulatory change management software, what is the most important influence as the decision is made? Obviously, there has to be accommodation and compromise between the different departments of a...

Early automobile drivers would look at the progressive technology in today’s cars with pure amazement of the simplified process. A car with an automatic transmission, does not require the driver do a whole of work to get from point ...

As far as the COSO framework goes, we look at what used to be at the bottom most layers of the COSO framework. With the new ERM COSO framework, they flipped it so now it is sort of at the top. It is basically at that base level where ...

Question for our industry: Exactly how many of the employees under you supervision and even at your company who work on production or drilling rigs as a regular employee know the requirements of the Outer Continental Lands Shelf Ac...

“Less time checking, more time analyzing.” How would you like to spend your hours more efficiently on analyzing business performance rather than doing all the legwork? Businesses nowadays, especially those that are global are b...

When reading the banking news you can’t help but find the word mortgage, regulation Z, Compliance, lacking, and all other standards that are being addressed and or ripped apart for the sake of Dodd Frank.  In turn, this has bankers...

Most companies I have dealt with will have all of these items individually addressed in their SEMS. I will explain a few 30 CFR 250.1917 problem areas I have found to be repeated by a few of my clients. § 250.1917 What criteria for ...

If there were no regulators dealing out fines for non-compliance, would GRC exist? In my opinion, Yes, GRC would exist without regulations, standards, and fines. Governance, risk management, and compliance are all in our nature. Of...

I have found many companies out there, both large and small, struggle with this area. Most of the time it is because they both overthink it and make it complicated or don’t realize that they have the information to comply with this ...

What comes first: safety or compliance? Unlike the chicken and the egg dispute, the safety and compliance debate is absolutely answerable, despite some confusion there appears to be in different industries. Compliance comes first. Saf...