The new ISO 37001 specifies a series of internal processes and policies to help organizations prevent, detect and address bribery, including adopting whistleblower protection, developing ethics policies, appointing an internal compliance officer, providing training for employees to combat bribery, conducting risk assessments, setting up internal financial controls and developing procedures to report and investigate deviations....]the example is being set by an organization's executives, Duchesneau said.The new ISO 37001 is earning praise from corruption fighters like Brodeur because it's the first time, he said, that anyone has established best practices among anti-corruption measures....]it comes with the "stick" of requiring continual compliance lest the company lose its certification, risk international shame and lose business....]the new ISO certification comes at a good time, he said, because a new industry has blossomed in Quebec in the wake of the Charbonneau Commission report released in November 2015.Management consulting firms, accounting firms and law firms are selling their services to companies to put in place anti-corruption programs and help them get their AMF authorization.PETER McCABE; PAUL CHIASSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES / A new industry is said to be blossoming since the November 2015 release of the Charbonneau Commission report: management consulting firms, accounting firms and law firms are selling their services to companies to put in place anti-corruption programs and help them get their AMF authorization.
Our new anti-corruption hammer is called iso 37001. (2017, Apr 01). Montreal Gazette Retrieved from http://0-search.proquest.com.millenium.itesm.mx/docview/1882918293?accountid=11643