Category: Corporate Governance

Managing Corrective and Preventative Actions

Whether its safety, quality or environmental management, a key indicator of an organisation’s performance is how it…

Don’t Let Your Management System Hang You Out to Dry

Maintaining your safety, environmental and quality management systems is a big job. In many cases it is…

A ‘How To’ for Management Review

Management Review is one of the best explained and worst applied sections of the management system suite…

Due Diligence – what are ‘appropriate resources and process’?

Last month we explored the ‘Officers’ Due Diligence requirements, paraphrasing Sec 27 of…

Due Diligence – what it means and what needs to be done

Last year a number of Royal Commissions placed the actions of Directors, Executives and ‘Officers’ into the…

Audit Fatigue

All organisations with established management systems have some form of auditing program that incorporates internal audits, external…

An Introduction to Change Management

How often have you heard the phrase “the only constant is change”? Trite but true, this is…

Comply Before Complain

Change might reasonably be thought of as the defining characteristic of the modern world.

Changing regulatory, trade…

Organisational culture and getting value from audits

No-one enjoys having their work criticised. No manager or supervisor likes to be told that the area…