The ISO 37001 standard details the requirements for an Anti-Bribery Management System. Our consultants will work with you to review your operations and identify areas where there may be a risk of bribery. Together we can ensure that you have a formal system in place to monitor, review and mitigate the risk of bribery and in the course achieve ISO 37001 certification.
The current version of the ISO 37001 standard is structured in a manner similar to other standards such as ISO 9001. It requires organisations to prove they are well structured with clear roles and responsibilities for individuals. Additionally, organisations must demonstrate that documented information is controlled, that risks and opportunities are considered and that actions to address these are identified and implemented.
Meeting the requirements of this standard
In order to meet the requirements of this standard organisations must have an Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) in place. The ABMS must detail arrangements for the identification and evaluation of bribery in addition to having controls in place for responding to bribery. The organisation must also have set up an anti-bribery compliance function. This can take the form of a 3rd party or fully independent function within the organisation with the authority to oversee and ensure conformance to anti- bribery controls. The employment process within an organisation needs to ensure that all employees have agreed to comply with anti-bribery policy as a condition of their employment. Where a risk of bribery has been identified a process of due diligence must be established in order to assess the risk on an ongoing basis.
Meeting the requirements of this standard necessitates the completion of a Bribery Risk Assessment in order to ensure that bribery risks are identified and categorised by the degree of threat that they pose. The standard also requires organisations to produce a documented Anti-Bribery Management System with procedures for managing gifts, hospitality and other benefits.
We do not start you from a blank page. We bring a complete, ready-built library of management system documentation with us. Policies, procedures, registers, risk assessments, audit checklists and training material, already mapped to the clauses of ISO 37001. That material is then tailored to the way your business actually runs, rather than your business being reshaped to fit a template. It is the single biggest reason a fixed-price engagement can hold to a predictable timescale: the writing is largely done, so the work is in adapting it, implementing it and building the evidence.
See our ISO consultancy service for how onsite and remote delivery works, or our system implementation service for what the build stage involves.
How ISO 37001 certification works
We take you all the way to ISO 37001 certification, and certification is guaranteed, backed by a 100% success rate. We build the management system around the way your business already works, support you through your internal audit and management review so your team owns them, and close out anything an assessor would otherwise raise before the audit rather than after it.
The system we leave you with is integrated and meant to be used. It should not add workload or complexity to how you already run, and if it does then it has been built wrong. By the time the assessor arrives your people know the system and can answer for it, because it is theirs.
It is a fixed price, agreed before we start, with payment by milestones or monthly instalments. Consultancy clients also get our ISO and legal update service at no extra cost, so the system does not quietly go out of date once we have finished.
We help you choose the right certification body too, based on an objective review of what you actually need rather than who we happen to know: whether accreditation is required by your customers and tenders, what the full three-year cycle costs, and how quickly a body can realistically get an assessor to you. Lead times vary far more than prices do. Our guide to choosing a certification body works through all three.
Benefits of ISO 37001 Certification
- Achieve better scores in pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ’s)
- Establish an effective Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS)
- Establish effective systems for monitoring and resolving any concerns regarding bribery
- Establish systems to ensure ongoing review of bribery risk in all operational activities
- Demonstrate to suppliers and other interested parties that formal systems are in place to prevent bribery