Rose Coughlin founded Focused Resources in 1997 in response to the desire to apply a 'Dream Team' approach (specialized expertise) to challenges impacting operational efficiencies, human health and the environment.  Between 1985 and 1997, Rose worked as an employee within an international oil company, a California State water-quality agency, and  two international consulting firms conducting root-cause type analyses for "environment and safety incidents and accidents".  She quickly realized the traditional "environmental assessment and remediation" practices are only a very small fraction of the larger incident-and-accident prevention, risk-management field. To assist her employers, colleagues and clients in operations, strategic, and tactical management, Rose focused her energies on incorporating traditionally deemed "health, environment and safety" practices (to reduce incidents) into the day-to-day line operations. Rose assisted in developing enterprise-wide procedures that were later incorporated into industry standards such as Behavior-based Safety, Loss Prevention System, TapRoot (root-cause analysis tool), Management System Assessments, ISO 14001, Process Safety Management, Reliability Engineering, Facility-Self Assessments, international Information Management and international Leak Prevention programs.

Rose has 32 years of experience in research, auditing/inspection, investigation/assessment and remediation/mitigation, data management and compliance program development/implementation, specializing in the health, environment and safety operations of the oil, gas, energy and chemical industries. Her research and evaluations are most often used to increase operational efficiencies, for claims/litigation support, for due diligence in mergers and acquisitions/real estate transfers, and for the formal/certified response to information requests filed to other third parties. Third parties may include federal, state and local agencies, insurance companies,  predecessor or successor property owners, and responsible party groups in proceedings that may include operational permitting/monitoring, regulatory and/or legal compliance.