RMIS Configurability Starts with Architecture September 17, 2026 By adrian Risk managers who have been through more than one RMIS evaluation know the pattern. During the polished demo every workflow looks adjustable, every form appears editable, and the sales team answers every configuration question with “yes.” Then the system goes live. From there, any change to an approval chain, a form field, or a report … Continued
Management of Change in Manufacturing: How to Close the Gap Between the Program You Have and the Record That Holds Up September 14, 2026 By adrian An auditor asks for documentation on a process change from six months ago. It happened at a facility two states away. Most corporate EHS leaders at multi-site manufacturers know this moment well. Whether they can produce that record is the real test of their management of change process. Most organizations have a management of change … Continued
Workplace Violence in Healthcare: Why Prevention Programs Stall at the Data Layer September 14, 2026 By adrian Healthcare workers face higher rates of workplace violence than virtually any other industry. That has been documented across OSHA guidance, Joint Commission standards, and years of nursing surveys. What’s harder to explain is why most hospitals still lack a functioning prevention program, even where policies are written and training is conducted. The gap between those … Continued
Why Your Audit Committee Isn’t Satisfied With Your ERM Reporting Anymore September 2, 2026 By adrian You prepared for the audit committee meeting the way you always do, with current scores, a clean register, and a clear narrative about how the cycle ran. Your enterprise risk management program was running on schedule. The meeting went sideways anyway. The questions weren’t about whether you had a process. They were about the reasoning … Continued
The Many Layers of Risk Management in Healthcare August 28, 2026 By Origami Risk Somewhere in a hospital today, a near miss goes unreported because the form is too complicated. A workers’ comp claim sits unreviewed because the adjuster doesn’t have the right data. A compliance deadline passes unnoticed because it lives in a spreadsheet no one checks. This is what risk management looks like on disconnected systems. Modern … Continued
Integrated Risk Management (IRM) – What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and Where Should You Begin? August 25, 2026 By Origami Risk Why do organizational silos exist? Separate business functions help build expertise, assign accountability, and give teams a clear sense of identity and ownership. For some organizations, that vertical structure is a strength. For others, it becomes a problem. Risk management, safety, and compliance professionals know this tension well. They share a common goal of identifying, … Continued
The Value of Benchmarking in Claims Management August 24, 2026 By Origami Risk You close a workers’ comp claim in 90 days. Is that good? Without something to compare it against, it’s genuinely hard to say. Maybe your peers are closing similar claims in 60. Maybe 90 is exceptional given your claim complexity. You can use the data to understand what happened, but benchmarking can help you understand … Continued
Why Your RMIS Should Own Your Insurance Program Data August 14, 2026 By adrian For risk teams managing complex insurance programs, renewal preparation routinely takes months. The timeline reflects the real effort required to assemble a complete program view from scattered sources. Policy terms live in carrier PDFs, quote histories disappeared the moment coverage was bound, and endorsements are tracked in whatever system someone thought to use at the … Continued
How Risk Technology Teams Are Breaking the Custom Integration Cycle August 12, 2026 By adrian Somewhere in the depths of risk technology environments, there’s an informal list. It tracks the custom integrations IT has built over the years, like the feed that pulls claims data from the TPA, the connection to the policy system, or the job that syncs vehicle records before Monday morning reports. Most risk technology organizations have … Continued
The Four Data Streams That Make Contractor Safety Management Predictive August 7, 2026 By adrian You’ve built the prequalification program. You collect certificates of insurance, review EMR scores, check OSHA 300 logs. The process has gotten more thorough every year. And yet a subcontractor clears every checkpoint, arrives on site, and drives a spike in your incident frequency within the first month. Prequalification was designed to answer if each contractor … Continued