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#282 – REMOTE AUDITING: THE 3P’S – ANNETTE DAVISON & SARAH LODER & MATT PARKINSON

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Annette Davison

COVID-19 has flipped everything on its head – including the way we undertake water quality management system audits. While ISO 19011 has provisions for remote auditing, it’s not something we normally do in undertaking water quality management system audits – usually we like to physically ‘go out in the field’ as part of our evidence gathering. Water supply systems have big infrastructure and a multitude of management and operational systems, which usually means a requirement for physical inspection. Continue reading →

#282 – IS THE KEY TO AGING IN OUR BLOOD? – ALLEN TAYLOR

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Back in 2005, Irena M. Conboy and colleagues published a paper in Nature detailing a heterochronic parabiosis experiment, that investigated aging in mice. They were investigating whether the blood coursing through the arteries and veins of old animals differed from the blood that kept young animals alive. To perform the experiment, they surgically connected the circulatory system of an old mouse to that of a young one. This caused the blood sustaining the old mouse to be 50% old and 50% young. Continue reading →

#281 – FUTURE OF WORK: COVID-19 AS ACCELERANT – HOWARD WIENER

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As businesses begin to reopen across the country many are hoping and waiting for life to return to what it was before the virus appeared.  In just a few short months people seem to have forgotten that life as we knew it really wasn’t life as we knew it, at all.  It was life as we like to think it was and it was already changing at a startling rate.  Now, we need to think about what post-pandemic life is going to look like.  Continue reading →

#281 – LINKING RISK ASSESSMENTS TO DECISION MAKING – ANDREW SHEVES

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The point of risk management is to understand and react to the threats and opportunities that might affect your business.  The problem is that risk management can often become dislocated from the mainstream business processes.  Instead of being integrated into the organization, risk management takes place in a parallel but separate workstream: one that decision-makers dip into occasionally but generally look at as a specialized, technical process. Continue reading →

#281 – WHEN GOOD PRODUCTS GO BAD – WILL YOUR DECISIONS MAKE IT A PRODUCT WITHDRAWAL, RECALL, OR CRISIS – PETER HOLTMANN

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Reacting to potential product risks and consumer safety can take many paths, knowing which one to follow relies on good systems and great decisions.

Consider the following scenario, you pride yourself on the quality of product you produce and sell; then one day you experience a large increase in consumer complaints, your social media accounts are under siege with angry followers, and you have a product in the market that is impacting your reputation and revenue. What you do next will define your company for years to come. Continue reading →