Compliance is a broad term. It can mean compliance to financial obligations, quality and safety, or general compliance to any regulation that is driving the organization. When you look at the current state of quality management and safety management with respect to compliance, most of the challenges arise in the overall operations and processes that govern companies’ adherence to common standards and initiatives.

Compliance, for many organizations, has a stigma around it. As a definition, compliance is the adherence to a set of guidelines, usually ones that you as an organization are not necessarily in control of. It’s created by a standards body, a regulatory agency, or government regulations, or may be a requirement to do business in certain industries.

Compliance, in a sense, is doing “what’s required.”

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