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 ...

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 ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

Value assessments in health care tend to focus on pharmaceuticals rather than services and procedures, despite the outsized contribution of services and procedures to health spending. We use the term ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will use the Louisiana Wetland Rapid Assessment Method, or LRAM, instead of the oft-criticized Modified Charleston Method. In a press release, Corps officials say the ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology finalized assessment procedures to correspond with updated information system security and privacy controls, in its latest special publication ...

NIST has released Special Publication (SP) 800-172A, Assessing Enhanced Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information, to support the protection of controlled unclassified information ...