Eirik Norstein Danielsen

Proactima contribues to a successful start-up for Go-Ahead

On Sunday December 15th, a new chapter in the Norwegian railway history was written with the new railway reform, as Go-Ahead as the first privately-operated railway transportation company started operations in Norway.

Go-Ahead will be operating the Sørlandet-, Arendal- and the Jæren routes and has established its head office in Stavanger. Managing director Cathrine Elgin and the Norwegian Minister of Transport Jon Georg Dale both celebrated the opening by travelling the newly renamed Sørtoget from Stavanger to Oslo.

Proactima congratulates Go-Ahead with a successful start-up! We in Proactima are pleased to assist Go-Ahead in establishing themselves in Norway with services within risk management, security, HR, emergency preparedness, crisis communication, ISO certification and management system. In addition, Proactima also provide our cloud based risk- and quality management tool – UXRisk.

Proactima’s competence in these important areas has been most valuable to us

– We appreciate the congratulations and the assistance we have received during the mobilization period. Proactima’s competence in these important areas has been most valuable to us, and the plans and systems will also come very useful in the important work ahead of us, aiming to improve customer satisfaction and getting more passengers to choose Sørtoget in the years to come, says Cathrine Elgin, man.dir. in Go-Ahead Norge.

UXRisk

UXRisk is a modern risk management solution for the global market made easily available for every kind of organisation and ensuring that all users are engaged.

Launching of new standard

Standard Norge has launched ISO 19011. This is the new Norwegian standard for auditing of management system. Proactima`s Anne-Kari Valdal was one of the speakers during the presentation of the new standard. Anne-Kari has led the committee regarding improvements of the management systems.

“Obviously it has been challenging due to international processes where representatives from different countries often have different approaches and focus. After two years of work, it is therefore fun to present the final product and the improvements we have achieved”, said Valdal during the launch.

In her speech, she primarily talked about the fact that audits now have a more prominent position in risk management and improvement work. The new standard is a useful tool for anyone involved in various types of audits, internal control, verifications and supervisions.

The English version was launched in September.

In case you need a helping hand when improving your internal systems, please contact
Anne-Kari Valdal (anne-kari.valdal@proactima.com)

Photo: Standard Norge

Proactima’s Anne-Kari Valdal on assignment for the Venice commission in cyber workshop at the Council of Europe

Anne-Kari Valdal is invited by the Council of Europe to the annual international Octopus conference – Cooperation against Cybercrime that will take place in Strasbourg 20th – 22th November 2019. The conference is one of the largest of its kind with more than 450 participants from 80 different countries. Authorities, international organizations, private enterprises and academia meet to exchange experience and strengthen the work against cybercrime. This year’s conference theme is «Evidence in cyber space».

The Venice Commission co-organises one of the conference workshops dedicated to “Cybercrime, “fake news” and election interference”. By invitation, Anne-Kari Valdal will act as General Rapporteur of this workshop. Earlier this year, Anne-Kari lead Proactima’s investigation for the Norwegian Election Act Commission, assessing security in democratic processes in Norway.

Anne-Kari Valdal is discipline responsible for security in Proactima, and has extensive experience within security management and security risk management and -assessments, as well as from information security, asset assessments and vulnerabilities. She has worked for various businesses in private sector, the national police, the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency and regulatory authorities.

Stian Tunge new chief financial officer

Stian Tunge takes over as CFO of Proactima on 1 September.

He comes from the position as controller and team leader in Finero AS. He has previously been a financial consultant in Sodexo and CFO of Peanuts AS.

Stian is a graduate economist with a master’s degree in economics and administration.

Breakfast meeting

How to get early warnings about threats that can hit your business

The main conclusion in Statoil’s Amenas report was evident. The company did never anticipate that a larger armed group could attack the plant, which was considered to be one of the reasons for the lack of security measures. They are not the only company to be hit by unidentified threats.

We are living in a complex time where incidents occur fast, unexpectedly and may spread across country borders. It is therefore important to understand the society we are living in, detect risk and increase the probability for receiving early warnings of danger and danger indicators, that a security situation is about to emerge in or around your business. At what point does an alarming situation develop into a crisis? And at what time in the process do we discover the danger?

Listen to Proactima’s Kjetil Daatland speak about effective intelligence and how this may contribute to reducing the extent of unidentified threats which may hit your business. Get insight in what you as a manager may initiate in order to handle the unexpected threats and slow-moving crisis in an early stage.

Good conversations eat strategy for breakfast!

How can you develop and train a trust-based culture in order to increase engagement, collaboration and handling the unforseen?

Thomas from Fuel It, the company behind FuelBox, tells his story and elaborates about how you can train relations and build trust as a manager and colleague. In addition, we test an easy tool which develops relations and trust between people, the foundation for collaboration, learning and engagement. Trusting relations are the very basis for a great safety culture!

Proactima invites you to breakfast meetings in Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim and Oslo!

For registration, please follow the link below (no registration fee).

Bergen:               16 October Kl. 07.45 – 09.30 – Registration

Stavanger:         17 October Kl. 07.45 – 09.30 – Registration

Trondheim:        30 October Kl. 07.45 – 09.30 – Registration

Oslo:                     6 November Kl. 07.45 – 09.30 – Registration

 (The meetings will be held in Norwegian).

Welcome!

Svenn Willy Gjerde to Proactima

Svenn Willy comes from a position as HS&E specialist in Baker Hughes and has previously worked in Rogaland Politidistrikt.

He is educated from the Norwegian Police Academy, Høgskolen i Bergen (Emergency and Crises Management) and from the University of Stavanger (HSE Management).

We welcome Svenn Willy!

Bror Johan Tørneng Wik to Proactima

Bror starts at Proactima on September 1 and comes from a specialist position related to working environment at Aker BP. He has previously worked in Det norske, Marathon Oil Norway, Maersk Drilling Norway, GE Healthcare and at the University of Oslo.

In recent years, Bror has worked specifically to provide support to the operating environment as well as to projects. In addition, he has developed tools and a management system for working environment.

Bror has a Master in Organic Chemistry from NTNU as well as a Ph.D (Organometallic Chemistry) from the University of Oslo.

Guro Skjæveland starts in Proactima!

Guro is educated at NTNU and at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management.

Guro has worked as Management consultant at Rystad Energy, mainly on analyzes, primarily for the oil and gas sector, investors and authorities.

We welcome Guro to Proactima!

Are you concerned about occupational hygiene?

Hans Thore Smedbold is a senior advisor and researcher at Proactima and writes a series of articles on occupational hygiene measurements. The first article has already been published in the “Yrkeshygienikeren” and is about basic statistics.

In the series there will also be published articles on reviews of eg. compliance with governmental limit values, measurements below the detection limit, long-term exposure to carcinogenic, mutagenic and reproductive toxicants and new NS-EN 689.

Hans Thore has also prepared a spreadsheet “YH-HELP” to help assess measurements. The spreadsheet is free and can eventually be downloaded via the website for Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health – www.nyf.no

The publication “Yrkeshygienikeren” has three editions per year. The next edition comes in October.