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IMPARTIALITY STATEMENT |
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KBS understands the importance of impartiality in carrying
out its management system certification activities, manages conflict of interest
and ensures the objectivity of its management system certification activities. KBS
has identified the following prohibitive, restrictive measures to ensure the impartiality:-
- KBS doesn’t not certify
another certification body for its management system certification activities
- KBS and any part of KBS
doesn’t not offer or provide management system consultancy
- KBS and any part of KBS
doesn’t not offer or provide internal audits to its certified clients
- KBS doesn’t certify a management
system on which a client has received management system consultancy or internal
audits, where the relationship between the consultancy organization and KBS poses
an unacceptable threat to the impartiality of the KBS at least within two years
following the end of the management system consultancy
- KBS doesn’t outsource audits
to a management system consultancy organization, as this poses an unacceptable threat
to the impartiality. This does not apply to individuals contracted as auditors
- KBS' activities are not
marketed or offered as linked with the activities of an organization that provides
management system consultancy.
- KBS takes action to correct
inappropriate claims by any consultancy organization stating or implying that certification
would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if KBS is used
- KBS also doesn’t state
or imply that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if
a specified consultancy organization is used
- KBS does not use personnel
to take part in an audit or other certification activities if they have been involved
in management system consultancy towards the client in question within two years
- KBS takes action to respond
to any threats to its impartiality arising from the actions of other persons, bodies
or organizations that come to KBS notice. The actions may include putting the information
on KBS website, warning such persons, bodies or organizations involved, informing
accreditation body, initiating legal actions etc.
- KBS personnel, either internal
or external, or committees, who could influence the certification activities, act
impartially and don’t not allow commercial, financial or other pressures to compromise
impartiality. KBS has signed an agreement with each personnel to this effect.KBS
collect client feedback regularly to monitor the conduct of KBS personnel.
- KBS requires each personnel,
internal and external, to reveal any situation known to them that may present them
or KBS with a conflict of interests as per agreement
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