Regulatory Change News

German Supply Chain Act: Driving ethical practices in the supply chain

In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council published its Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights[1], requiring companies to protect, respect and remedy adverse human rights impacts to which they directly contribute. A number of European countries, such as France and the United Kingdom, subsequently developed domestic compliance standards for firms with international supply chains. Most recently, the German Federal Parliament and the German ...

Sapin II: The Role of Technology in Preventing Corruption

Introduction In December 2016, the French government published a bill titled “Transparency, Fighting Corruption and Modernizing Economic Life”.[1] Otherwise known as the Sapin II law, the objective of this bill was to generate an anti-corruption mechanism in France by building on the progress brought about by the 1993 Sapin Act.[2] Sapin II aligns French anti-corruption law with aspects of U.S. and UK corruption enforcement, introducing ...

OSHA’s Focus on Lockout Tagout Prompts Shift to Digitization

When it comes to workplace health and safety, one of OSHA's topmost-cited standards is the Control of Hazardous Energy, commonly known as Lockout Tagout (LOTO). The U.S. Department of Labor reported over 1,800 citations between October 2020 and September 2021, amounting to over $12 million in penalties in breach of LOTO standards. With the increase in enforcement and the dangerous safety issues these violations pose, ...