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ISO 37001: 2018

Anti-Bribery Management System

Boost your organization’s credibility by building transparency and trust. Get certified to ISO 37001 to effectively implement the globally acclaimed anti-bribery management system.
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What is ISO 37001?

ISO 37001 is an internationally acknowledged system for anti-bribery management. The standard sets out the criteria for establishing, operating, implementing, maintaining, and making continual improvements on your anti-bribery management system.

Certification helps companies to detect and prevent any incident associated with bribery in a timely manner. It puts companies on the right path to successfully comply with the commitments and regulations for bribery management.

The standard was originally published in the year 2016.

What are the key benefits of having an Anti-bribery management system?

  • A stringent anti-bribery system that safeguards company’s financial assets and intellectual properties.
  • Provides a safe working environment for employees.
  • Increases stakeholder assurance.
  • Legal compliance and adherence to rules and regulations.
  • Evidence to show in a courtroom that your company is actively working against bribery if there has been an unacceptable bribery incident.

What Are the Requirements For Implementing ISO 37001?

1. Scope and context of the organization : The scope of the management system and the plan and objectives associated with it should be designed and documented. The objectives should be listed and available for the management as well as for other internal stakeholders. The context of your anti-bribery management system needs to be developed considering the needs and expectations of interested parties, and the internal and external issues impacting your company.

2. Leadership : There should be a leadership team to guide and communicate all the roles and responsibilities stakeholders must take. The leadership team should take responsibility for the outcomes as well.

3. Planning : Proper and step-by-step planning should be designed and documented. The planning must include actions to minimize risk and / or take advantage of opportunities identified in the context of the organization and bribery risks.

4. Support : To successfully implement and maintain the system, support in the form of resources and tools should be provided as needed.

5. Operations : Controls must be prepared taking into account due diligence processes, financial controls, nonfinancial controls, implementing antibribery controls with business associates, antibribery commitments, procedures for receiving and administering gifts, donations, etc., raising concerns, and dealing with bribery.

6. Constant evaluation and subsequent improvement : There should be enough resources and leadership spared to monitor the performance of the system and evaluate its effectiveness. As a consequence, the management system and results should improve.

Certification Process

Commit: A trusted certification body is chosen, engaged, and an audit date is set.

Pre-assessment: If clients wish, an assessment before the stage 1 and 2 audits is performed.

Stage 1 Audit: The management system and documentation are reviewed to ensure everything is in place for the stage 2 audit, including determining whether internal audit and the management review have been performed. An audit report is prepared and issued by the auditor for review. If everything looks good, the auditor confirms the stage 2 audit.

Stage 2 Audit: After addressing any concerns or opportunities for improvement from the stage 1 audit, the stage 2 audit is conducted by the auditor. The auditor checks that the management system is implemented and is compliant with ISO 37001. If there are any non-conformities, these are shared by the auditor. Once non-conformities are addressed and the auditor can confirm that the standard is being met, the auditor recommends the company for certification.

Issuing the certification: With the successful completion of the two stages of audits, the certification body issues the certification.

Surveillance Audits: Every certification lasts for 3 years. The certification body organizes annual audit programs to ensure ongoing compliance.

Why should you call Blue Wolf Certifications for accomplishing your ISO 37001 journey?

Blue Wolf Certification is a business associate of various accredited certification bodies that helps you get through the ISO certification journey without facing annoying issues.

We offer stage 1 and stage 2 audits before issuing your system for certification and provide continual support and surveillance audits to check for 100% ongoing compliance after you achieve the certification.

Why Should You Hire Us?

  • We are known for our efficient but detailed audits. Our professional auditors want to help make your ISO certification journey easier and better.
  • Great auditors. We work with our auditors to ensure they will be a great fit for you. Our auditors have been described as transparent, open, fair and supportive. Even easy to talk to and helpful.
  • A valuable audit experience. Our audits have been described as non-threatening, relaxing, straight forward, orderly, professional and painless.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is ISO 37001?
It is the globally acknowledged standard for anti-bribery management systems. It helps organizations to detect and manage bribery-associated risks and situations in a systematic manner.
2. What are the advantages of ISO 37001?
● Provides a safe working environment for employees.
● Increases stakeholder confidence in your company and assurance of ethical operations.
● Legal compliance and adherence to rules and regulations.
● Evidence to show in a courtroom that your company is actively working against bribery if there has been an unacceptable bribery incident.
3. How many days does it take to complete the certification?
It depends on the type and size of your company. Generally, it takes up to six months and in some cases a year or more to get ready for ISO certification.
Audit days are determined from other standards and industry mandatory documents. Factors that increase or decrease the number of audit days include the number of personnel, the level of risk, the type of industry your organization belongs to, and consideration of various factors (simplifications or complications) that help to understand the complexity or your organization. All of this to ensure there is adequate audit time to determine compliance to ISO 37001.
4. Are ISO certification services costly?
The cost depends primarily on the number of audit days as previously addressed above.
Each certification body determines their own day rate. The rates can vary depending on the standard, the availability of auditors and the amount auditors charge the certification body. Additional factors that affect cost are the certification body’s accreditation fees, admin costs, and other costs as outlined in their proposal. It is important to be aware of additional fees as they can add up. In some cases, a certification body’s day rate may be low, but additional fees can be high, so do your due diligence. Some certification bodies you may notice will charge premium pricing based on how they perceive themselves in the marketplace, however all certification bodies have the same credibility anywhere in the world because of their accreditation. Before choosing an accreditation body, it may be necessary to check with your customers if they care about the name of the certification body. It is very unlikely your customer cares about the name however, as long as it is an accredited certification body.
Other costs can be the cost of travel including food, accommodation, etc. for the duration of the audit.

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It’s a very great experience. She (Tanya) helped me a lot and she explained a lot. If there is something that we might need to improve on, she will explain in a very detailed way. It’s a very smooth and very clear process. Definitely recommended.

Timothy Zeng

CEO, HQS Automotive.

Our experience has been that this process in working with the auditors has shown us more ways to improve internally than what we expected

Stacy Gestring

Founder, Art Advertising

One of the best business decisions I think we’ve made in the entire time we’ve been here in the company.

Gary Gestring

Founder, Art Advertising

When we first started the process of looking at the standard, we were afraid we would have to force our company into a new way of doing almost everything in doing our business. And we were very pleased to find out that the standard was meant to fit how we already were doing things. And Blue Wolf and Seth really helped us in the audit to not feel so intimidated by it, but to understand it, yes that the way we are doing it does fit the standard, and instead of just criticizing where we were coming short, he gave us advice and suggestions on how the standard is actually meant to be used, to improve how we are doing things, not to force us into a certain way of somebody else doing it.
Our experience has been that this process in working with the auditors has shown us more ways to improve internally than what we expected, and we would recommend going through this for anybody that’s considering it.

Stacy Gestring

Founder, Art Advertising

After a lot of research and careful review of our options we chose to work with Blue Wolf, and we know now that we made the right decision. It’s been a great process, and I would recommend to anyone that is considering ISO 9001 to at least have a conversation with them. I don’t think you would regret it at all.
At the very beginning of this process, I think we can safely say we were very nervous about it and apprehensive about doing it. After our auditor Seth Shea arrived, we realized again what a great decision we made. He’s made this process way much easier than we thought it might be, not as scary. And the insight he’s given us, and the observations and suggestions has been one of the most… really one of the best business decisions I think we’ve made in the entire time we’ve been here in the company.

Gary Gestring

Founder, Art Advertising

Firstly, on behalf of Adam and myself, we would like to thank you both very much for providing us with the support and service during our ISO accreditation and certification process.

Your professional and knowledgeable approach and support has been very much appreciated.

Adam

Mechpro

The experience was overwhelmingly really good.  I thought we were ready but there were some lightbulb moments. It was a logical process. The auditor was patient. We wanted the certification for areas of opportunity and we had many recommendations. I appreciated the audit.  I haven’t heard anything negative out of the process to date. It’s been good.

Tracey Costin

Affordable Staff

I’ve never been involved in auditing before. Completely new. Was not sure what to expect. The process was seamless.   There were some good recommendations.  I was made to feel comfortable. The process worked quite well. I’m feeling more than ready for the next audit. There was so much going on at the time of the audit that I just wanted to go back to the audit, it was more relaxing.

 

Eva Judge

Affordable Staff

“One of the greatest things that initially sold me on BLUE WOLF was your approach towards partnering, understanding, and treating us with respect towards where we are at in compliance with the standard.“
“I was nervous about it until we spoke on the phone in the premeeting. Once you started talking about your approach and your process I was sold. But to see it in real life and to see it actually come true was even more (…)”
After his first day of the audit: “I’ve been through so many audits you can’t even count. Your approach is by far superior than any other audit I’ve ever been through. The contrast was night and day. I’ve got some younger people who don’t have quite the same experience as I do, and their ability to feel like they could be participatory, have value and be respected throughout the process was outstanding. I have not made a better choice in picking a company to work with us in an audit process prior to you. You’re going to be here every year if I can help it. And if ownership changes and they want to do something different, I’ll fight to keep this process going because it has so much value.”

Joseph Shushok

Imerys

I’ve never been a part of one of these. I have learned absolutely so much. It was a privilege to be a part of this. I don’t ever want to experience an audit a different way.

Jama Morrison

Imerys, Quality Manager

If everybody could have an audit experience like this, more and more people would actually consider an ISO certification. Because so many people hear so many things about it, stressful myths, and everyone has a bad auditor experience from somewhere else. If more people could experience an audit this way, they wouldn’t have any reason to fear ISO.

Milo Fruk

CHS Broadbent, National EMS Director

I’ve seen some really bad crap auditors. Even I learned a whole lot from what we just went through with Seth that I didn’t even understand about the standard before.

Nick Maes

Automated Wellhead. Operations manager

“Blue Wolf has been great with providing us with clarity and direction so that our team can focus on the important aspects of our quality and safety management systems. What seemed like a very intimidating process to achieve ISO accreditation was made simple by Blue Wolf and their team. Their knowledge and our processes have added value and elevated our quality and safety program to another level. Thank you, Seth Shea, and the Blue Wolf team for a wonderful ongoing experience.”

Cynthia Sayer

Safety Administrator, Clark Bros, Inc.

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Andrew Stewart

Inks Production Engineer, NovaCentrix

“We completed our audit today with 1 minor non-conformance and 2 observations. I would highly recommend Blue Wolf certifications to anyone else your company is working with. Our auditor Seth was so personable, made the audit process as relaxed and comfortable as possible, made our staff feel comfortable talking to him, and he was very thorough in his findings. He makes you feel like you are working together, which is HUGE and really rare in a company/auditor relationship.”

Kerry Ashby

Senior Director, PEO/HR + Payroll Operations, Choice Employer Solutions, Inc.