ISO 37001: Anti-Bribery Management Systems
What is ISO 37001?
ISO 37001 was published in 2016 and is the international standard for anti-bribery management systems. The standard is designed to assist organizations in implementing and maintaining specific measures which assist them in preventing, detecting and addressing bribery across the organization and its business activities.
This could include:
- Bribery activities conducted by the organization
- Bribery activities conducted against the organization
Helps you with
- Anti-bribery policy
- Anti-bribery compliance
- Risk assessments
- Due diligence
- Prosecution protection
- Control mechanisms
- Reporting and investigation procedures
- Bribery of organizational personell
- Effective anti-bribery processes
- Demonstrating compliance to relevant legislation such as the Bribery Act 2010
Benefits of ISO 37001 Certification
Legal compliance
Understand how statutory and regulatory requirements impact your organization and its customers.
Business continuity
Avoid downtime with management of risk, legal compliance and vigilance of future security issues and concerns.
Be prepared
Reduce the risk of bribery occurring in your organization or against your organization and/or employees.
Business resillience
Avoid downtime and financial losses with effective management of risk, emergency preparedness and contingency planning.
Cuts investigation time to a minimum
The management system helps you to reduce food safety breach investigation time.
Consistent quality approach
Common approach in the supply chain for supplier or subcontractor development, driving consistency, competence and control.
Enhanced credibility and recognition
The statement is a publication of environmental information, whose accuracy and reliability has been independently checked, providing enhanced credibility and recognition.
Is ISO 37001 certification right for me?
The implementation of ISO 37001 involves:
- Anti-bribery policy
- Anti-bribery compliance and control person
- Risk Assessments
- Due diligence
- Control mechanisms
- Reporting and investigation procedures
How NQA can help you
NQA is truly focussed on working in partnership with its customers to drive improvement and business benefit.
With a wealth of experience providing accredited management systems certifications, NQA is ideally placed to partner with you to meet stakeholder requirements and exceed industry expectations.
Technical committees and industry relationships.NQA is highly involved in a wide variety of industry committees and standards writing teams, helping us to maintain a keen awareness of changes within the industry.
Knowledge transfer supporting our customer’s organizational strategy.
NQA is committed to ensuring customer awareness regarding changes in industry strategy, regulations, and standard requirements that may impact your management system approach.
Steps to Certification
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Step 1
You will need to fill in an application form in order for NQA to understand your company and requirements. You can do this by completing either the online quick quote or the online formal quote request form. We will use this information to accurately define the scope of assessment and provide you with a proposal for certification.
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Step 2
Once you’ve agreed your proposal your assessments will be booked with an NQA Assessor. This assessment consists of two mandatory visits that form the Initial Certification Audit. Please note that you must be able to demonstrate that your management system has been fully operational for a minimum of three months and has been subject to a management review and full cycle of internal audits.
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Step 3
Following a successful two stage audit, a certification decision is made and if positive, then certification to the required standard is issued by NQA. You will receive a hard and soft copy of the certification. Certification is valid for three years and is maintained through a programme of annual surveillance audits and a three yearly recertification audit.