Purpose Healthcare regulation is one means to address quality challenges in healthcare systems and is carried out using … compliance, deterrence and/or improvement approaches. The four countries of the UK provide an opportunity to explore and compare … regulatory models are developing which use improvement support interventions in parallel with deterrence and compliance …

little expansion of administrative capacity in this area. Thus, market compliance with both mandatory standard and labeling … establishment of a regularized monitoring system for tracking compliance with the mandatory standard and energy information label … system to track compliance with the standard, CLASP, with support from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI …

Numerous regulations and standards, both national and international, apply to the packaging and transportation of … developing and implementing the various regulations and standards. It uses the US regulatory and standards-making bodies to … material packages for better understanding and use of both standards and regulations, and for complying with regulatory …

, environmental compliance risk) in fossil-based generation portfolios. The treatment of renewable energy in utility resource plans is … IRPs. The treatment of natural gas price risk, as well as the risk of future environmental regulations, also varies … utilities analysis of natural gas price and environmental compliance risks, and examine how the utilities traded off portfolio …

certify compliance of the WIPP with the governing regulations. Some of these data were collected prior to the development and … implementation of the quality assurance (QA) standards that are now being applied in the WIPP compliance certification process, and …

best practices. Through a series of interviews with companies with a past history of non-compliance, trade associations and …. The authors conclude that industry compliance is not enough; rather, nonproliferation must become a central tenant of a …

compliance and productivity in the nuclear industry can be improved simultaneously. Given the complex nature of the industry … difficulty in keeping pace with ever-changing regulations and information sources. Many existing knowledge-engineering tools … compliance effectiveness can be realized. Productivity is improved though the lessening of impact on human resources, and …