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Eighty-one percent of compliance officers have increased apprehension when it comes to their personal liability in situations of corporate misconduct, according to a new survey released by lawfirm DLA Piper. This uneasy adjustment stems from shifts in tone from Washington, DC, including the appointment of Hui Chen as the Justice Department’s first compliance counsel, and the release of the Yates Memo outlining a plan to prosecute individual corporate employees and incentivize reforms, according to the 2016 Compliance Risk Report: CCOs Under Scrutiny.
With the establishment of the federal Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulations, security is a matter of regulatory compliance for the chemical industry in the United States for the first time in history.