How to Write Better Lockout/Tagout Procedures
Lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures are common in industrial and manufacturing environments. Despite this, failure to adequately train employees on LOTO procedures continues to be one of the U.S.
The Currency of Credibility: Valid ISO Certification According to ISO
As the 2020 pandemic threatened world health, a large number of unscrupulous companies began generating fake International Organization for Standardization (ISO) quality management system (QMS) certificates in an attempt to fool governments into buying personal prote
A Better Model for Business Insurance
This story was originally published by MIT News.
Should Quality Professionals Be Worried About the New Covid Strains?
Should quality professionals be worried about the new Covid strains originating in the United Kingdom, South Africa,
Competition for Risk Assessment Increases
Ever since the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) included risk-based thinking in ISO 9001:2015, an idea has arisen among some in the quality profession that quality managers can move into the risk management arena without any competition from other
Five Vulnerabilities Attackers Leveraged Most in 2020
According to Gartner, 99 percent of the vulnerabilities exploited in 2020 have been ones known about by security and IT professiona
How to Eliminate Excessive Maintenance From Your Production Floor
A manufacturing facility can’t operate without a maintenance team. Frankly, most businesses can’t.
How Risk-Based Thinking Could Prevent Thousands of Covid-19 Deaths
As someone who has helped companies in a wide variety of industries for the last 30 years solve many problems using risk-based thinking, I cannot think of an issue that I have worked on that is more important than preventing the spread of Covid-19.
Project, Risk, and Change Management
Over the years, I’ve written a lot of posts about change and change management.