This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. The National Safety Council (NSC) estimates that roughly 13 percent of workplace injuries are attributable to sleep problems, causing an economic impact of $400 billion. NSC information suggests that employers with 1,000 employees could incur losses of more than $1 million per year in (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. The attorney-client privilege is a bedrock of jurisprudence, with communications by and between lawyer and client being protected from compelled disclosure to any third party. But in this age of high-profile data breaches and resulting technical statutes and regulations mandating that organizations adopt (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) manages most of its cleanup of nuclear waste (77 percent of its fiscal year 2019 budget) under a category that EM refers to as operations activities, using less stringent requirements than (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) manages most of its cleanup of nuclear waste (77 percent of its fiscal year 2019 budget) under a category that EM refers to as operations activities, using less stringent requirements than (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. The RIMS2019 opening keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Erin Meyer, a professor at the INSEAD school of international business in France, and the author of the Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. She discussed with Risk Management Monitor the concept (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. The RIMS External Affairs Committee has issued a new Legislative Review discussing the challenges risk professionals may face regarding the cannabis laws in the United States. Available exclusively to members, The Risk Management Implications of Conflicting Federal and State Cannabis Laws is designed (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Predicting the future can be both fun and nerve-wracking. On one hand, you can never truly know what the future holds, and if you are wrong you can always chalk it up to chance or unforeseen events. On the other hand, forward-looking thinking (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Corporate history is littered with examples of major companies that adopted the wrong strategy and paid the ultimate price. For instance, even though the firm had been a digital pioneer, photography behemoth Kodak failed to foresee how quickly the world would embrace digital (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. In 1976, the first identified outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease sickened over 220 and killed 34 American Legionnaires attending a convention in Philadelphia. Caused by Legionella pneumophila bacteria, the disease is a severe form of pneumonia that results in cough, high fever, nausea, vomiting, (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)—a semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE)—and Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS)—the management and operating (M&O) contractor for the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant (Pantex) in Texas—implemented a (more…)