Impartiality Policy

IMPARTIALITY POLICY

SNR, declares that it will comply with the requirements of and ensure impartiality within all its certification activities for all the personnel related to the activities.The confidentiality, objectivity and impartiality of the certification activities by and on behalf of SNR, shall not be affected by the activities of the certified clients.

To Show Effective Implementation of policy ICERT will not provide and allow the Following

• Consultancy services for realization, continuity and sustenance of certification.
• Services for designing, implementing or maintaining a management system.
• Certification services against or on behalf of other certification bodies.
• All Personnel working for SNR shall not provide Certification Service with Consultancy group.
• SNR shall not allow any consultancy organization to market or offer the activities of SNR
• SNR shall not state or imply that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if a specific consultancy organization were used.
• SNR employees shall not participate in decision process of management system issues.
• SNR & its employees shall not participate in preparation and procurement of manuals, guides and procedures.
• SNR shall not provide specific and detailed advice or training on design, implementation and maintenance of management systems subject to certification.
• There shall be no pressure of any kind (financial, trade, administrative, moral or other) over SNR and the personnel regarding the execution of their obligation.

SNR identifies, analyze sand documents all possibilities for conflict of interests that emerge from certification processes including any conflicts that emerge from its relations. Presence of relations does not necessarily position the SNR in a situation of conflict of interests. If some relations create impartiality threats, SNR documents and eliminates or decreases such threats.

This information is presented to the Advisory Board members. It is necessary to cover all possible conflict of interests’ sources that are identified regardless of their origin. SNR requires from all employees, internal and external, to comply with impartiality rules as well as reveal any situation known to them that may present them or SNR with a conflict of interests. SNR shall use this information as input in identifying threats to impartiality raised by the activities of such personnel or by the organization that employ them. Such personnel, internal or external shall not be used unless they demonstrate that there is no conflict of interest. SNR shall not undertake any action that threatens the impartiality and/or are potential conflict of interests.