September 2018 Blog Posts (7)

Why compliance trainings are critical for organizations?

Trainings are a necessary ingredient for excellence in organizations. On-the-job training is almost a must for most employees at various levels in organizations. Trainings are necessary for a variety of reasons. Many employees who are just out of college may sometimes feel the need to get trained to help them understand the organization and the job better because the actual work the organization does may not be part of the curriculum they may…

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Added by Adam Fleming on September 24, 2018 at 5:41am — No Comments

Facts about the (food and beverage) industry that could [surprise] you

Like any other industry, the food and beverage industry too, is unique in its own way, carrying its own set of characteristics. It is a curious mix of the big and the small, not only in terms of the size of companies in it, but also the reach of these companies.

In a sense, the food and beverage industry is…

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Added by Adam Fleming on September 19, 2018 at 6:27am — No Comments

Why You Must Keep Carrying Out Risk Management Throughout Your Business [Lifetime]

What makes risk management critical? Well, business that comes with no risk is no business at all. It is like the side effect of a medicine. It is impossible to think of the medication without the side effects. Risk being inhered into a business and intricately woven into it; it is necessary to understand why you must keep carrying out risk management throughout your business’ lifetime. This places risk management right up there at the very top…

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Added by Adam Fleming on September 17, 2018 at 7:49am — No Comments

Things you most likely didn’t know about [OSHA Compliance]

Requirements set out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are aimed at ensuring safety at the workplace. Formulated in 1971 under President Richard Nixon, it was one of the landmark legislations in any part of the world. Today, almost all kinds of workplaces in the US are regulated by OSHA.

Through its concerted efforts, OSHA has largely been a success, if one takes into…

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Added by Adam Fleming on September 14, 2018 at 6:25am — No Comments

The Social Impact of The Stigma of Mental Illness

How mental illness stigma affects social relationships

Mental illness is a peculiar issue from many perspectives. Firstly, mental illness does not show itself up very easily unlike a physical injury. Secondly, since it concerns the human mind, the most complex of all creations, its condition keeps varying according to the situation around the person having a mental illness. Thirdly, and most importantly, it is characterized by a very strong reaction from the society, or what we call… Continue

Added by Roger Steven on September 10, 2018 at 9:15am — No Comments

Few Things [Nobody] Told You About Good Clinical Practice

Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is a set of international standards meant for entities that conduct clinical trials. This set of standards, formulated by the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH), when implemented into clinical trials involving human subjects, seeks to ensure the protection of the humans involved in the research, as well as to bring about transparency in the methods of clinical practice.…

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Added by Adam Fleming on September 5, 2018 at 7:15am — No Comments

Top Security Awareness Tips for HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA compliance is, as any healthcare professional involved in work related to it in one or another way would attest, the most important requirement for a HIPAA-governed entity. Covered Entities and Business Associates have to comply with HIPAA regulations and safeguard HIPAA provisions with their lives, so to speak, because it is a matter of their very existence as a business entity.

A look at what happens in the event of HIPAA noncompliance is instructive: