NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, frequently mentions “risk assessment.” But what does this mean, and how do you perform such an assessment? Informative Annex F answers those ...

When you hire an employee to work for your company, he must remain competent. An incompetent employee can slow down the company's overall productivity, as well as lower the morale of the workplace ...

Identify hazards. Assess risks. Implement risk control according to the hierarchy of risk control methods. The first Informational Note following this says the risk assessment procedure could identify ...

Certain factors make it challenging to conduct value assessments on services and procedures, including the lack of randomized clinical trial evidence, which can make measurement of effectiveness ...

Design of a Corporate Compliance Program Effective Implementation Does the Compliance Program “Work in Practice”? Part 1 of the Corporate Compliance Guidance addresses the following elements of a well ...

Editor’s note: The author is technical director of the AICPA Center for Plain English Accounting. Addressing audit risk in financial statements with high levels of substantive procedures toward the ...

The proposal, which can be viewed at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-20179.htm, will ensure that the best and latest available evidence and scientific data are ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

Current efforts devalue learning and the responsibility of students for their own success, writes Christopher B. Nelson. In higher education circles, there is something of a feeding frenzy surrounding ...

IN BRIEF Audit planning is one of the most complex but critical stages of the audit process. This leads auditors to look for ...

This section describes how the committee weighs the evidence presented to it. In particular, it explores specific factors underpinning the committee's consideration of efficacy (section 7.4) and ...