elcome to 2022 and this year’s edition of In Compliance Magazine’s Annual Reference Guide!

For the past several years, I’ve typically spent the month of January connecting with friends and colleagues and discussing with them the lessons that each of us has learned about ourselves during the past year, as well as the changes that we’ve made to help integrate those insights into our daily lives.

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, these conversations generally took the approach that most of us follow when it comes to formulating our resolutions for the new year. That is, we’d focus on the things we didn’t do or the mistakes that we made and did not want to repeat in the year ahead and resolve to do better by taking specific actions.

But the world changed for all of us in early 2020. We struggled to deal with the spread and severity of COVID and the accompanying economic uncertainty and upheaval that came with it. And even the lucky ones among us who managed to avoid getting sick and had the economic resources to weather the storm had to adjust to an ever-changing dynamic at home and at work.

In our own individual ways, each of us has been forced to find the strengths within us and to step up when and where we can for ourselves, our family, and others that we care about. And, in this context, it seems wrong somehow to focus on our weaknesses. Instead, we should reflect on what we’ve been able to accomplish under these unprecedented conditions, acknowledge the importance of our strengths above all else, and explore how we can better leverage those strengths in the future for the benefit of ourselves and others.

For all of us here at In Compliance Magazine, the past two years have given us an opportunity both as a team and individually to reconnect with our primary mission, that is, to deliver the most accurate and comprehensive picture of the ever-changing regulatory compliance landscape, and to provide engineers with the information they need to successfully navigate their design challenges. We’ve gained new insight into what we do well and what we can build on to provide even more value to our readers. And we’ll be working hard in the year to come to deliver on that promise.

In the meantime, our never-ending thanks to our readers, our editorial contributors, and our advertisers for your unswerving commitment to our publication. Your support in helping us fulfill our mission is what keeps us going every day!

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