BCI Compliance Group Limited
Code of Conduct
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Basic Company Policies
The above two categories comprise seven areas, as detailed below:
Impartiality
A. To both earn and maintain the trust and confidence of its clients, BCI must both be, and be
perceived to be, absolutely impartial.
B. To both earn and maintain the trust and confidence of its clients, BCI must be able to
demonstrate that its audit decisions as to conformities and/or non-conformities are based solely
on objective evidence and that its decisions are not, nor can they be, influenced by other
interests or parties.
| C. | Possible threats to impartiality include:Self-Interest Threat: This is the threat that arises from a person or a body acting in his or its own self-interest, for example, a financial self-interest, thus constituting a clear threat to its impartiality;Self-Review Threat: This is the threat that arises from an individual or a body reviewing the |
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work done by himself or itself, for example, auditing the management systems of a client to whom the certification body has provided management systems consulting, thus constituting a self-review threat;
c Familiarity (or Trust) Threat: This is the threat that arises from a person or a body being too
familiar with another person or body, or too trusting of the testimony provided by another person or body, instead of actively seeking objective evidence, thus constituting a familiarity threat;
| d | Intimidation Threat: This is the threat that arises from a person or body having the perception of being coerced, openly or secretively, such as the threat to be replaced or to be reported to a supervisor, thus constituting an intimidation threat;Financial Threat: There are no financial threats to our firm that could endanger its impartiality.To ensure the impartiality and independence of the verification process, any verifier who has |
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provided training or consultancy services to a specific facility, or who has been a former employee of that facility within the past year, shall not be assigned to conduct verification activities for that facility.