Remember that classic scene from The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy's house is being hurled into the sky and her world and worries are rotating around her in a great tornado? Ever feel that way at work? To be sure, the modern risk manager and safety professional are facing new challenges and expectations: value-based services, mandatory reporting, pay for performance, new compliance standards, and so on. Sometimes it's disorienting, perhaps similar to how Dorothy must have felt when she realized she was not in Kansas anymore.
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