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- Regardless of challenges and requirements faced by different organizations, SMS LLC recommends simple strategies to enhance compliance arrangements.
- Know your certifying body - develop a close working relationship with the organization that certifies your compliance arrangements to foster a partnership based on achieving common goals.
- Recognize and quantify the cost (financial and other resources) of compliance for your organization.
- Be mindful of the impact of your compliance programs on human resources - seek solutions that succeed within existing workflows and routine practices.
- Focus less on compliance audits and more on implementation and improvement. The best tools for enhancing the effectiveness of compliance arrangements have little to do with auditing and everything to do with cultivating awareness of requirements on a continual basis.
- Harmonize compliance arrangements whenever possible to address multiple regulatory and voluntary standards.
- Involve top management in meaningful ways that demonstrate their commitment to your organization's compliance programs.
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