Industries everywhere are struggling with increasing business scrutiny and regulatory compliance challenges. The healthcare industry is faced with numerous compliance requirements and industry standards such as JCAHO, HIPAA and othe...

The regulatory and reporting landscape is particularly complex for energy and utilities companies. They have to conduct operations in a variety of regulatory and tax regimes, they have big upfront investment needs, which often go hand...

We have all seen this. A sick spouse, friend or co-worker decides to “tough it out” when they aren’t feeling well. Inevitably, it results in extra downtime, loss of productivity and overall inefficiency. Taking that quick trip 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...

An EHS management system that is well conceived and implemented can provide many benefits to an organization, Crying wolf or raising false alarms, was the demise of the sheep herder in Aesop’s Fables. Over-reacting to every complia...

Looking into a dictionary, one can find that the word “compliance” means that an individual or a group conforms with or obeys a set of rules or regulations determined by the law or any governing body. When it comes to a business a...