ISO 37001:2016 - Anti-Bribery Management Systems
Introduction
Establish, implement, maintain and continually improve a management system aligned to ISO-37001.
Risk-based thinking, process approach, and performance evaluation.
Consistent, effective, and evidence-based results.
ISO 37001:2016 provides requirements for an Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) to prevent bribery in organizational operations and business dealings.
Includes due diligence, controls, and monitoring.
Major Requirements Mapped to Clauses:
- Clause 4: Context.
- Clause 5: Leadership – Policy.
- Clause 6: Planning – Risks.
- Clause 7: Support.
- Clause 8: Operation – Due diligence, controls.
- Clause 9: Performance.
- Clause 10: Improvement.
Major Requirements (mapped to clauses)
- Clause 4 — Context of the organization
- Clause 6 — Planning (risks & opportunities, objectives)
- Clause 8 — Operation (operational planning & control, change, outsourced processes)
- Clause 10 — Improvement (nonconformity, corrective action, continual improvement)
- Clause 5 — Leadership
- Clause 7 — Support (resources, competence, communication, documented information)
- Clause 9 — Performance evaluation (monitoring, internal audit, management review)
Certification Expectations (for auditees)
- Bribery risk assessment; third-party due diligence; whistleblower channels.
How ACSGP conducts the audit
Aligned to ISO/IEC 17021-1 (requirements for bodies providing audit and certification) and ISO 19011 (guidelines for auditing management systems).
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ISO/IEC 17021-1/19011, ethics focus.
Value Addition Auditing: We assess both efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring your management system becomes an asset, not a liability—while maintaining impartiality, competence, and evidence-based principles.
Benefits of conformity with the standard
- Mitigates fines (avg $14M), builds ethical culture.
Benefits of ACSGP Certification
- IASCB for anti-corruption credibility.