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What is Risk Management? And Why Should you Care?

Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing and controlling threats to an organization’s capital and earnings. These threats, or risks, could stem from a wide variety of sources, including financial uncertainty, legal liabilities, strategic management errors, accidents and natural disasters. IT security threats and data-related risks, and the risk management strategies to alleviate them, have […]

The Importance of Conducting Safety Audits

Organizations conduct safety audits to comply with laws or regulations and to provide a safe workplace for everyone. A safety audit identifies different levels of risk in each work area of an organization. An audit’s findings can also include how an organization can remediate potential threats to employees and visitors. When an organization follows through […]

What is Contractor Management?

Definition of Contractor Management Contractor management refers to the managing of outsourced work performed for an individual company. It is increasingly common for industries to rely upon independent contractors for specialized skills and knowledge. By utilizing outside contractors, companies can achieve three main goals: accessing specialized expertise that is not continuously or routinely required, supplementing […]

How Financial Goals Could be Directly Impacting Employee Safety

According to new research in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, financial goals may be more important than employee safety. UCLA Anderson of Management Associate Professor of Accounting Judson Caskey and UT Jindal School of Management Assistant Professor of Accounting N. Bugra Ozel collaborated on a study that examined 14 years of data on workplace […]

Incident Management and its Importance

The purpose of incident management is to reinstate normal service operations as fast as possible and mitigate the negative impact on business operations, thus making sure that the agreed levels of service quality are maintained. The operational state where CIs and services are performing within their agreed service parameters and operational levels is called ‘Normal service operation’. […]

The Basics of Surviving a Management Audit

There are many reasons for conducting audits, but following are the four most frequent reasons Regulatory compliance audits In market sectors such as Financial, Behavioral Health, Medical, and Pharmaceutical, periodic audits are the norm and the guidelines are clear. In any given year, a Behavioral Health clinic in NY State, for instance may be required […]

How Technology Can Shape the Future of EHS – Part 2

In Last week’s article we discussed some of the new evolving technologies that could – and are starting to – shape the future of EHS, this week we continue to discuss more technologies that have potential for being part of future EHS /OHS systems and software suites. Beacons and Sensors Beacons and sensors are devices […]

How Technology Can Shape the Future of EHS – Part 1

As technology evolves everything evolves with it, and we can expect that a few years from now the EHS profession will look very different . Like all industries, Environmental Health & Safety softwares will also be affected by the emerging technologies that are changing fundamentally the way people perform their tasks. An example of this […]

What is a Risk Management Plan and Why do you Need One?

According to Australia’s business.gov.au website, a risk management plan sets out the strategies and the processes you’ve put together to help you manage any risks associated with running your business. Typically, a good risk management plan should: Ensure that risk management becomes a priority at all levels of your business Create a clear flow of […]

Contractor Management 101: Definitions & Basic Concepts

Contractor Management: What Is It? Many industries often rely upon contractors for very specialized skills and, sometimes, to accomplish particularly hazardous tasks – often during periods of intense activity, such as maintenance turnarounds. Such considerations, coupled with the potential lack of familiarity that contractor personnel may have with facility hazards and operations, pose unique challenges for the […]