Impartiality Policy

Cert Africa will ensure that all internal and external personnel are aware of the need for impartiality.

Please download our Signed Company Impartiality Policy Document here…

Cert Africa shall ensure impartiality through application of:

• The commitment to deliver training activities that provides confidence and adhere to impartiality.
• The requirements as stipulated by the latest SAATCA CTR6.12 and other relevant accreditation bodies requirements as published;
• Cert Africa commits to act impartially in relation to its applicants or candidates.
• No training activities will be performed for clients of Cert Africa if any person has performedcsimilar or advisory activities for these clients that might lead to a conflict of interest. In order to ensure this, we shall take reasonable steps to establish whether a conflict of interest exists;
• The activities shall not be marketed or offered as linked with the activities of an organization that provides management system consultancy; we therefore commit to be responsible for the impartiality of the training activities and shall not allow other pressures to compromise impartiality.
• Cert Africa shall not provide certification services to clients where consultancy has been provided by any member in the same scope of work. The minimum period of impartiality allowed is two years;
• Cert Africa shall identify threats to its impartiality on an ongoing basis.
• Risk based approach will be periodically conducted to eliminate real and perceived threats to impartiality.

Management of Impartiality

Cert Africa will be solely responsible for the impartiality of its conformity assessment activities and shall not allow commercial, financial or other pressures that can compromise impartiality.

Cert Africa management will establish and monitor a risk assessment process arising from provision of certification including any conflict arising from its relationships, on an ongoing basis.