According to the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, human rights due diligence is an ongoing risk management process that a reasonable and prudent company needs to follow in order to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how it addresses its adverse human rights impacts.

Many countries are making legislative changes to make human rights due diligence mandatory. An assessment by DQS helps you to evaluate whether your current processes are sufficient to reduce the risk of human rights violations to an acceptable minimum.

Environmental due diligence is the level of care that can reasonably be expected of organizations to avoid significant harm to the environment. This includes, but is not limited to, compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations. An assessment by DQS helps you to evaluate whether your current processes are sufficient to reduce the risk of environmental harm to an acceptable minimum.

We probably do not need to tell you that incidents with information security are likely to result in legal charges. A due diligence assessment by DQS is an independent and objective evaluation of your IT security management processes – and possibly those of your business partners – that helps confirm their effectiveness. As such, the independent assessment is one further element that helps demonstrate that you have made every reasonable effort to prevent incidents.

While almost every business will have an anti-bribery policy in place, there is still a substantial number of organizations that do not have a robust due diligence program for anti-bribery. This leaves the risk of bribery unmanaged and makes organizations and their managers vulnerable in case of lawsuits. An assessment by DQS helps you to evaluate whether your current processes are sufficient to reduce the risk of bribery to an acceptable minimum.