To deliver safer and better care, healthcare providers will need to adopt proactive risk management, system-wide thinking, process digitalisation, effective data monitoring and a culture of continuous improvements By: Tan Hak Yek, Founder and CEO of QUASR and GRC Partners … Read More
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Creating a Culture of Healthcare Worker Safety: A Strategic Imperative
A Hazardous Workplace Healthcare workers are at higher risk for workplace injury and illness compared to those working in construction, manufacturing, or transportation sectors. That is according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics on non-fatal injuries and illness by … Read More
GRC 101: How to Take Your Program to the Next Level
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations face the ongoing challenge of establishing robust governance, managing risks effectively, and ensuring regulatory compliance. GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) is an important tool that helps organizations manage and align efforts, ensuring adherence … Read More
How Do You Implement EHS&S Technology?
Environment, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) technology can help businesses transform their environmental performance, protect their employees, and help keep up with ever-evolving regulations. EHS&S technology makes everything more efficient and easier, drives confident data-driven decisions, and saves organizations time. … Read More
Five Must-Haves for IT Security and Operational Resilience
Companies today are moving toward digitalization, enabling, and improving processes by leveraging digital technologies and digitized data. Such a move is tremendously efficient and helps companies build value. However, digitalization also leaves companies exposed to IT risk and vulnerable to … Read More
The Importance of Near Miss Reporting in Healthcare
You didn’t see it coming Imagine your hospital had just encountered its first case of wrong-site surgery. As the Quality and Patient Safety Manager, you were utterly shocked and in disbelief. How could this have happened? After all, Surgical Safety … Read More
How Tech Enhances Worker Safety and Engagement
Employers are the core of any business or organization. So is worker safety. Keeping your workers safe and healthy physically, mentally, and emotionally is critical. Doing so means effectively engaging your employees via real-time communication as people navigate complex day-to-day … Read More
Improving Contractor Safety as Dependence Rises
Contractor safety management, a collection of integrated management processes designed to reduce the risks associated with contractors, is of vital importance to companies. Companies are also increasingly relying on the use of contractors on their worksites. It is especially true … Read More
Reduce Unnecessary Risk with Digitized, Mobile-Enabled Permit to Work
Permit to work is utilized in industries such as chemical, construction, energy, manufacturing, and mining that deal with high-risk operational activities. Operational and process safety workers in these environments are always one incident away from a potential catastrophe. Streamlined operational … Read More
BCM Leads to Operational Resilience
Business continuity management (BCM) encompasses preventing and recovering from adverse events and is essential for operational resilience. The pandemic and Cisco’s recent ransomware attack and data breach are constant reminders of BCM’s role as the sentry of operations. The goal … Read More