Globals Cert in carrying out audit activities and is responsible for the impartiality of its audit and certification activities and is free from commercial, financial and other pressures that compromise its impartiality and manage conflicts of interest and guarantee the objectivity of its management system certification activities.

To gain and maintain trust, Globals Cert bases every decision on objective evidence of conformity (or non-conformity) obtained during the execution of their work and their decisions are not influenced by other interests or by other parties.

Personnel involved in audit and certification activities are not paid in a way that affects audit and certification results. All personnel, both internal and external who may influence audit and certification activities, act in an impartial manner.

Every personnel involved in audit and certification activities as well as issuing certificates must sign a Statement of Impartiality,

Globals Cert always identifies risks to impartiality, analyzes and documents possible conflicts of interest arising from the provisions of its certification. The identification of these risks includes risks arising from its activities, relationships, or relationships between its personnel. However, this relationship does not always pose a risk of impartiality to Globals Cert.

If a risk of impartiality is identified, Globals Cert will be able to demonstrate how to eliminate or minimize the risk, and Globals Cert has a top management commitment to impartiality.

Globals Cert as far as is required in carrying out its services is not permitted:

• certify companies that have shares in PT Global System Certification or its shares are owned by a certification body;
• offer or provide management system consulting;
• offer or provide internal audits to its certified customers;
• certify the customer management system if the certification body has conducted an internal audit or self-assessment of the customer within the last two years;
• certify the management system for customers who have received consultation or internal audit / self-assessment, if the relationship between the consulting organization and the certification body indicates a threat affecting the impartiality of the certification body;
• subcontracting audit services to a management system consultant because it is an unacceptable threat to the impartiality of the certification body;
• market or offer concurrently with the activities of organizations providing management systems consulting;
• state or indicate that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or cheaper if a particular consulting organization was used;
• provide assurance that there is no conflict of interest, personnel who have provided management systems consulting including those acting in a managerial capacity, if they have engaged in management systems consulting with a customer being undertaken within two years of the end of such consulting.