An Introduction to Anti-Bribery Management Systems (BS 10500): Doing right things
By Alan Field
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An Introduction to Anti-Bribery Management Systems (BS 10500) explains how to implement an ABMS that meets the requirements of BS 10500, from initial gap analysis to due diligence management.
Alan Field
Alan Field, LL.B (Hons), PgC, MCQI CQP, MIIRSM, AIEMA, GIFireE, GradIOSH is a Chartered Quality Professional, an IRCA Registered Lead Auditor and Member of The Society of Authors. Alan has particular expertise in auditing and third party assessing Anti-bribery Management Systems (ABMS) to BS10500 and counter fraud systems in the public sector to ISO 9001 requirements. Alan has many years’ experience with Quality and Integrated Management Systems in the legal, financial, property services and project management sectors in auditing, assessment and gap analysis roles.
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CHAPTER 1: NO OSTRICHES ALLOWED: AN INTRODUCTION TO BS 10500
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance on implementing a management system to the requirements of BS 10500:2010, the British Standard relating to an anti-bribery management system (ABMS). This will apply whether you are considering formal assessment or not.
Each ABMS will be as unique as any organisation’s culture and circumstances are. This guide will focus on the key areas that may need particular consideration and it will highlight other areas that may need to be researched further.
It is also important that a copy of BS 10500 is obtained, and its exact requirements read and considered in detail.
In the context of this publication, a management system is a framework where processes and/or procedures are used to ensure that tasks are delivered in a consistent way by an organisation, to ensure its objectives are achieved.
Anti-bribery – while it may (or may not) be a separate management system–may also be incorporated into many other aspects of compliance, ICT and HR policies, to name but a few. This will be examined further throughout the guide.
Ostriches and risk takers
Why consider BS 10500:2010 at all?
To answer this question, first consider a scenario. While it may not apply to your organisation, the risks and assumptions it raises helps one consider the landscape that BS 10500 seeks to manage.
One might call this scenario the ostrich approach to bribery and corruption risks. In other words, the belief that it will never happen in your organisation, and none of your customers, suppliers or contractors – or individual members of their staff – would ever engage in such practices. Many organisations still openly or implicitly think this. This might be because they simply see it as a low risk, or because – as most business relationships are based on trust – we prefer not to think that those we more or less trust would actually abuse that relationship.
This may also be due to a fundamental misunderstanding that just because an organisation itself is ethical and compliant in most respects, this does not necessarily prevent certain individuals working for them (and sometimes very senior individuals) from being corrupt. When we look at due diligence later in the guide we will explore this distinction.
It is also sometimes forgotten that the links between corruption and fraud are very close. If an organisation has a counter fraud policy with systems and controls in place, then there should be a similar process in place for bribery and corruption.
For example, if a subcontractor deliberately invoices a company for work they have not done, then that is probably fraud. If they tell one of their principal’s employees in advance and offer them an inducement to simply have the invoice approved for payment, then that is corruption as well. To recognise one circumstance as a risk to be controlled but then not the other, does not appear to make good business sense.
Take, for example, where very large contracts can be won, or lost, based on local relationships with clients, and where a so-called ‘beauty parade’ system operates. In reality, there may be little or no difference in price or product quality between a handful of competitors, for very high value contracts. Some organisations may be tempted to take risks in terms of giving inducements to potential customers, or their agents, to get the order. In some parts of the world this is normal business practice. Some individuals may even be lulled into believing they are doing nothing wrong, especially if these inducements are payments to local ‘charities’ or trade bodies (which the client, or agent, will either be a direct beneficiary of or, perhaps, a family member or other associate will benefit from).
In the industrialised world, inducements may be present instead of cash – they might include holidays, lavish entertainment (including for family members), interest free or low interest loans, paying healthcare costs, and having other bills paid out of company funds, to rather more complex arrangements, such as secret offshore investments. All