Anti-bribery implementation

source:KF Quality    author:KFQ    2021-02-24 14:45:34

Anti-corruption control is a paramount process for a third party inspection company.

The inspector is the frontier soldier to perform the inspection services on the field. The suppliers expect the goods could be shipped on time, so in some cases the supplier may bribe the inspector to get a pass result, or inspector may ask the bribery to change the inspection result. This is not what we want to see, we must take practical measures to avoid such things from happening and provide impartial inspection results to the client.

Then what preventive actions could be implemented? Please find some practices that KFQ is currently doing.

1) Emphasize the importance of anti-corruption policy during onboard training, sign the agreement, and clearly tell the inspector if bribery case is verified, he/she will be dismissed immediately without any compensation, and will inform other third parties of the his behavior.

2) Request the inspectors to clearly explain KFQ's anti-bribery policy one by one, and ask the factory representative to sign the form before commencing the inspection.

3) Arrange monitoring team from Quality dept to monitor the inspectors' performance without informing the inspectors (unannounced), audit the inspection process, spec verification and defect classification to ensure the inspection is complete and findings are impartial.

4) Analyze the inspection results per inspector, and focus on the monitoring for those inspectors that the inspection pass rate is extremely high, and the defects found are always marginally accepted.

5) Randomly select the supplier to do service satisfaction survey, and try to understand the scenarios of whole inspection process.

6) Encourage the inspector to report bribery behavior from the supplier, this will be linked to inspectors performance.

7) Arrange regional supervisors to visit the factory for those inspections with high risks.

Let's endeavor our best to provide a clean service environment in the inspection industry!

From kfquality.com