ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management System

ISO 37001 anti-bribery management system incorporates anti-bribery measures into the company’s existing operation processes to establish an anti-bribery culture.  The purpose of ISO37001 is to implement a variety of related measures to prevent, detect and terminate any bribery.

The definition of “bribery” in ISO37001 is offering, promising, giving, accepting or soliciting of an undue advantage of any value (which could be financial or non-financial), directly or indirectly, and irrespective of location(s), in violation of applicable law, as an inducement or reward for a person acting or refraining from acting in relation to the performance of that person’s duties.

The main categories include:

• Establish an independent structure in the company to deal with anti-bribery regulations
• Conduct anti-bribery risk assessment
• Pre-employment screening
• Anti-bribery education and training
• Due diligence
• Financial and non-financial control mechanisms
• Political contributions for public welfare or charitable contributions and sponsorship management
• Hospitality expenses, travel expenses and petty expenses management
• Whistleblowing and investigation mechanism.

ISO 37001 Benefit

• Meeting Client requirement & expectation
• Reinforce corporate image and reputation
• Reduce operation costs.

ISO 37001  can be applied to

• Large Companies & Organisations
• SME
• Government Department & NGO
• Charity Organisation