NGCL personnel are aware of the importance, of the fulfilment, of the requirements of the Impartiality Policy in certification activities to eliminate conflict of interest. Our employment and subcontractor agreement contain our impartiality commitment. All personnel (employees and subcontractors) have signed this agreement. Employees and Subcontractors know the procedure and inform us about any situation that could be considered as a threat of our impartiality. Also, the impartiality policy is published on NGCL’s website.
Situations that ISO has considered apply as NGCL’s impartiality commitment:
- NGCL does not permit financial or other pressures to certify a company to compromise impartiality.
- Through our Risk analysis NGCL identifies risks for possible conflict of interest presented during our certification services and how to eliminate or minimize.
- NGCL does not provide services of:
- Design, manufacturing, installations, distributers or maintaining of the certified product;
- Design, implementations, operators or maintaining of the certified process;
- Design, implementations, providers or maintaining of the certified service;
- Consultancy to the clients;
- Management system consultancy or internal auditing to the clients where the certification scheme requires the evaluation of the client management system.
- NGCL does not state or imply that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if a specified consultancy organization were used.
- NGCL certification process does not select auditors who performed consulting services or worked for the company in the previous two years.
- NGCL certification process does not select auditor who in the last two years have been consulting services or worked for the company to audit.
- NGCL does not certify activities or systems of other certification bodies.
- NGCL does not subcontract auditing services from a consulting or certification body.
- NGCL does not provide any service that creates a threat to impartiality; we will take the necessary actions to eliminate such threats.
- NGCL has an impartiality committee who through annual meetings ensure that we maintain fulfilment of the impartiality policy.