ISO 37001:2016 Anti-bribery Management Systems

ISO 37001 is an anti-bribery management systems standard published in October 2016.  It is designed to help an organization establish, implement, maintain, and improve an anti-bribery compliance programme.  It includes a series of measures and controls that represent global anti-bribery good practice.
ISO 37001 is based on a four-step model and aligned with the ISO 19600 standard for Compliance Management Systems:

• Plan: identify anti-bribery obligations and evaluate compliance risks in order to develop a strategy, including measures to address any issues

• Do: implement measures and establish mechanisms to monitor their effectiveness

• Check: review the anti-bribery management program on the basis of the controls implemented

• Act: review and improve the program continually, ensuring cases of noncompliance are monitored and examined

Requirements of ISO 37001:2016

The organization must implement a series of measures and controls in a reasonable and proportionate manner to help prevent, detect, and deal with bribery, including:

• Anti-bribery policy

• Management leadership, commitment and responsibility

• Personnel controls and training

• Risk assessments

• Due diligence on projects and business associates

• Financial, commercial and contractual controls

• Reporting, monitoring, investigation and review

• ​Corrective action and continual improvement
   

Benefits of ISO 37001:2016

• Assists a company in implementing an anti-bribery management systems, or in enhancing its existing controls, with the potential to reduce corporate risk and costs related to bribery.

• Helps provide assurance to the management and owners of a company, and to its funders, customers and other business associates, that the company has implemented internationally recognized good practice anti-bribery controls. 

• Helps in the event of an investigation to provide evidence to the prosecutors or courts that the company had taken reasonable steps to prevent bribery

How can ELITE assist you?

We provide ISO 37001 management systems training and consultancy services. We offer specialized expertise and extensive practical experience to assist client in developing management systems from the initial concept to establishment and successful implementation of the management systems.

We use the following consultation approach to assist you in achieving certification:
1.  Identify areas requiring improvement or development within your current Management Systems
2.  Prepare a strategic action plan, in conjunction with your company personnel, to address those improvement areas and assist with the communication of these requirements to key personnel at all levels
3.  Provide system-related trainings for your company personnel to create awareness and provide them with the necessary knowledge and skills in the implementation of systems
4.  Provide assistance and advice on the development and implementation of systems, including preparation of documentation
5.  Advise and assist, if required, with the preparation and submission of applications to your certification body
6.  Assist with the development of internal auditing procedures and training