The world's leading integrated resilience workspace for risk and business continuity management, operational resilience, incident & crisis management, and security & safety operations.
Apply best practices to plan for, respond to, and manage critical events and exercises. Built on ISO standards, you can respond faster with better collaboration using plans and playbooks, smart workflows, and real-time dashboards and insights, to ensure better incident response, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
All the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through the entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, following ISO, ICS and other national standards. Keep your whole team following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture - from any place or device.
All the tools needed to automate your safety management system in one easy-to-use platform, following ISO standards. Increase efficiency with powerful automation capabilities and provide real time insights to all levels of your business. Configurable notifications, workflows, analytics, and mapping empower your safety personnel to make better decisions wherever they are.
Maintain a comprehensive view of the wellbeing of your workers, their needs, and the wellbeing initiatives conducted in your organization. Through various assessments, checks, analytics, and resources you can easily manage both the physical and mental wellbeing of personnel across various locations and programs.
A suite of tools to collect risk data from across your organziation from a range of stakeholders, in real time, and based on ISO standards. Fully customisable, with everything from a simple pre-task assessment though to an organisational risk register, we make it easy to capture risk data and provide the analytics to derive rich insights, to keep your organisation safe and compliant.
Track all your assets from your vehicle fleet, fixed or mobile plant and equipment though to your critical infrastructure using our range of tools. Plan maintenance ahead of time and by collecting lead indicator data from checklists and assessments on any mobile device, then enable users to update the status of your assets to track utilisation, share documentation and report issues.
Save time and money by enabling contractors to self-register and progress through a customizable workflow, to check documentation before becoming an approved contractor. Contractors can then be automatically followed up using workflows and notifications to keep their organziation compliant.
Streamline visitor sign-in using a QR code on a form tailored for your organisation. Visitors can complete inductions, answer questions and acknowledge content then have notifications triggered to their host based on their responses. Once on site, manage visitor cards, broadcast notifications and understand visitor trends to optimise your processes.
All the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through the entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, following ISO, ICS and other national standards. Keep your whole team following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture - from any place or device.
Proactively manage all aspects of physical security operations from anywhere, on any device. Based on ISO standards, streamline your operations using workflow automations to guide information capture, enrichment, follow up tasks, and notifications. Validate threats and risks to drive better investment of your resources.
Manage cyber threats, risks, and treatments based on industry best-practice guidelines and ISO standards. Plan objectives and set targets, manage all elements of standards-compliance, and schedule and record audits and inspections. Manage non-compliances and corrective actions, and drive continual improvement review cycles.
Streamline visitor sign-in using a QR code on a form tailored for your organisation. Visitors can complete inductions, answer questions and acknowledge content then have notifications triggered to their host based on their responses. Once on site, manage visitor cards, broadcast notifications and understand visitor trends to optimise your processes.
Consolidate the threat and risk picture across all your assets, easily demonstrate compliance with security obligations, and gain an ‘all threats’ perspective encompassing physical, cyber, personnel and supply chain. Address and manage cyber threats without having to implement costly new ICT systems and drive continuous improvement and review cycles.
All the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through the entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, following ISO, ICS and other national standards. Keep your whole team following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture - from any place or device.
Manage cyber, emergency and security threats, risks, and treatments based on industry best-practice guidelines and ISO standards. Plan objectives and set targets, manage all elements of standards-compliance, and schedule and record audits and inspections. Manage non-compliances and corrective actions and drive continual improvement review cycles.
Track all your assets from your vehicle fleet, fixed or mobile plant and equipment though to your critical infrastructure using our range of tools. Plan maintenance ahead of time and by collecting lead indicator data from checklists and assessments on any mobile device, then enable users to update the status of your assets to track utilization, share documentation and report issues.
Save time and money by enabling contractors to self-register and progress through a customizable workflow, to check documentation before becoming an approved contractor. Contractors can then be automatically followed up using workflows and notifications to keep their organziation compliant.
Follow ISO standard approaches to determine disruption impacts and develop plans & recovery strategies to address risks. Track gaps, dependencies and tests, capture exercises, and manage insurance details. Scale up to any incident and back down to business as usual as quickly as possible and drive continuous improvement.
Apply best practices to plan for, respond to, and manage critical events and exercises. Built on ISO standards, you can respond faster with better collaboration using plans and playbooks, smart workflows, and real-time dashboards and insights, to ensure better incident response, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Manage cyber, emergency and security threats, risks, and treatments based on industry best-practice guidelines and ISO standards. Plan objectives and set targets, manage all elements of standards-compliance, and schedule and record audits and inspections. Manage non-compliances and corrective actions and drive continual improvement review cycles.
Ensure preparedness across your organisation. Conduct business impact assessments and quickly identify essential functions. Assess hazard and threat risks. Identify technology, assets, facilities, and critical personnel. Gather and assemble essential information and documents. Develop, test and maintain your COOP plans. From readiness and preparedness to reconstitution, manage all four phases of the Continuity of Operations Plan to minimize business loss and disruption.
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Published May 19, 2021
We all know what it means to comply. However, what is compliance management?
Compliance management is the ongoing process of monitoring and assessing systems. Which business management systems: the systems that have been established at your business to ensure you comply with industry and security standards, regulatory requirements, as well as your own internal policies.
Simple enough, sure.
Yet, some organisations believe they can coast by without effective compliance management practices.
Times of regulatory upheaval, though, only heighten the risk of compliance infractions.
Indeed, the years 2009 to 2012 saw more than 50,000 regulations sweep across the G20. That number rose to 50,000 in the year 2015 alone, according to the London-based think tank, JWG.
The cost of adhering to those regulations also rose. Compliance with the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act cost banks USD 36 billion, according to the publication, Trade.
The sheer volume of regulations isn’t the only challenge to effective compliance management. A lack of compliance management system software is another.
Without an online compliance management system, teams become more reliant on manual structures, i.e., spreadsheets, Word documents, shared folders, etc.
These home-spun structures don’t, however, scale as firms get larger – their regulatory burden more onerous.
Too many companies are also managing compliance risks in silos – on an individual, risk-by-risk basis. What’s more, individual teams don’t always have the internal (communications) tools they need to properly integrate their knowledge base of compliance risk into their systems for managing risk.
As a result, business managers don’t get visibility into enterprise-wide risk, limiting them to a fragmented view of (sector-specific) risk, despite the high probability of bleed over between business lines.
What can be done, instead, to achieve efficient, cost-effective compliance management? For starters, senior leaders should redirect their company’s compliance efforts and resources away from piecemeal interventions.
Instead, they should focus on implementing an enterprise-wide strategy. Pursuing that strategy entails identifying the areas in the organisation with the highest compliance risk, then recalibrating the compliance function to monitoring those risks.
Here, some concrete steps to turn enterprise-wide compliance management into a reality include developing a single, overarching framework for compliance across the organisation. That unifying thread, in turn, will govern processes taken and tools procured.
But how to achieve a comprehensive understanding of your company’s compliance risk? We suggest the following:
How to operationalise the best-practice compliance management solutions above? That’s where digitised governance, risk and compliance software comes in.These platforms collect real-time risk data from multiple stakeholders, across the organisation. They are also based on ISO standards, as well fully customisable.
With everything from a simple pre-task assessment through to an organisational risk register, the solutions make it easy to capture risk data and provide the analytics to derive rich insights.
What else? These solutions also provide better bang for your buck, a consistent set of common GRC features that can be used in out-of-the box, safety and security management software.
Relevant features include:
Controlled documents |
Primarily used for policies and procedures, but can be used for any document type Includes a document approval workflow (reviewer/owner) Includes a document review & archival workflow Supports automatic document version control and links to previous versions from current version dashboard Supports stakeholder email notifications & acknowledgements that documents have been read & understood Supports links between documents and risk controls Supports a controlled document register search Allows filtering of documents Documents are accessible from web browser and mobile devices |
Audits |
Audit projects consisting of multiple sections and questions that can be configured by authorised users Audits can be scheduled to occur on a user-defined cycle Multiple auditors can work simultaneously on the same audit project Each audit can consist of multiple questions, each of which can be weighted for importance Each question can include guidance notes Audit responses are automatically converted into a percentage that facilitates consolidation, comparisons, and trend reporting Non-conformances can be recorded for follow-up action Photos and files can be captured as evidence Corrective actions can be raised and tracked through to completion |
Risk assessments |
Can be used for any type of risk assessment Risk assessments are created from a library of pre-defined risks and controls that users can extend A Risk Assessor can automatically calculate the Inherent risk severity when the likelihood and consequences are entered An Assessor can rate the contribution of each control toward likelihood and consequences, which automatically calculates the Target risk severity level using the contribution of multiple controls The Risk Owner can approve the risk assessment Once implemented, the effectiveness percentage of each control is used to automatically recalculates the Residual risk severity level Risk assessments can be scheduled for periodic review Users can generate ad-hoc risk reports that explains what has changed within a date range |
Finally, effective compliance management is most difficult in moments of crisis and regulatory upheaval, like the present. But that doesn’t negate the reality of everyday threats to compliance management.
Understanding those threats is the first step to mitigating their effectiveness. After that, implementing cohesive compliance risk management strategies, in tandem with technology investments, is the best way to capture the risk data that provide the requisite analytics and insights needed to keep your organisation safe and compliant.
Sources:
Tom Groenfeldt, Forbes: Taming The High Costs Of Compliance With Tech. Available at https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2018/03/22/taming-the-high-costs-of-compliance-with-tech/?sh=531894495d3f.
Norlida Abdul Manab, International Review of Business Research Papers: Enterprise-Wide Risk Management (EWRM) Practices: Between Corporate Compliance and Value Creation. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norlida_Manab/publication/267817755_Enterprise-Wide_Risk_Management_EWRM_Practices_Between_Corporate_Governance_Compliance_and_Value_Creation/links/57c2742508aeb95224d749b7/Enterprise-Wide-Risk-Management-EWRM-Practices-Between-Corporate-Governance-Compliance-and-Value-Creation.pdf