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ROI on Regulatory Compliance Software

February 28, 2014 Raza Shahid

Few years back, many times, compliance managers used to create compliance checklist to achieve weekly/monthly/quarterly goals filling out spreadsheet after spreadsheet and digging deeper into a limbo of traditional compliance governan...

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How are Operators Addressing Contractor Management Under SEMS?- SEMS Workshop Recap

February 26, 2014 Amanda Brightwell

On February 20th, ERM and 360factors held a SEMS workshop at the Mays School of Business in Houston, Texas. It was a great turnout, and there were some interesting questions and discussions brought up by the attendees based on the pre...

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Combining Infrastructure Resiliency Programs

February 24, 2014 Ziv Lang

Earlier this week I attended a conference call with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Energy Water Nexus Council.  During the event, I inquired about recent efforts to combine the resiliency building programs for the nati...

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Why OSHA Developed Process Safety Management (PSM)?

February 21, 2014 Raza Shahid

Process Safety Management is a regulation (29 CFR 1910.119) publicized by OSHA, intended to prevent an incident and to prevent release of toxic, reactive, and flammable or explosive chemicals. But, let us remind ourselves why OSHA...

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What will GRC be Like in the Future?

February 21, 2014 Asa Ames

The world of Governance, Risk, and Compliance is changing rapidly. Technology is reaching new heights, enabling more efficient automation of compliance. GRC has mostly been handled in a relatively primitive fashion in the past. Even n...

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Baby Steps to Compliance – A Safety Manager’s Story

February 17, 2014 Christine Thomas

Serving in OT Safety space for over 4 years, I have heard many stories first hand – most of these coming from the Compliance/Safety managers and supervisors at various contracting companies consulting me at the dawn of the dead situ...

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