API Monogram™ API Quality
Program Registrar™
API AUDITOR CODE OF ETHICS
In performing auditing services on behalf of API, you agree that you will at all times: To prevent any potential or perceived conflict of interest, you, your immediate family, or other
• Conduct your business in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, auditing members of your household shall not use your position as an auditor to:
standards and ethical standards of conduct, • Offer any services to a facility or a company affiliated with a facility that you have audited
• Adhere to facility safety standards and general industrial safety standards to protect your in the past 24 months or that you have been assigned to audit, where such services
health and well-being, would be provided by yourself, your immediate family members, or a company that you
or your immediate family members work for, contract with, or otherwise have a direct or
• Conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times during the course of the indirect financial interest in, or any affiliate of such a company. For purposes of this code,
contracted assignment, your immediately family includes, but is not limited to, any member of your household,
• Avoid any personal relationships, activities, or financial affairs that may influence your your spouse, your parents, your children, or your siblings.
performance or create the appearance of a conflict of interest or an actual conflict of • Discuss future employment opportunities with any facility or a company affiliated with
interest, a facility that you have audited in the past 24 months or that you have been assigned to
• Use adequate safeguards to prevent the disclosure of any confidential information, audit.
• Observe high ethical standards of conduct to ensure that the integrity of API’s programs • Accept or solicit from any facility, which you or your company have audited or been
is protected, assigned to audit, any money or anything else of value for yourself, your family, your
friends, any company or organization in which you or your immediate family member
• Immediately disclose to API any actual, potential or perceived conflicts, and has a direct or indirect financial interest, or any affiliate of such a company or organization.
• Immediately disclose to API any offers of bribes or other improper or unethical “Anything else of value” includes, but is not limited to, cash, gifts, hospitality, services,
attempts to influence your decision-making. commission, rebates, discounts, loans, vacations, event tickets, entertainment, trips, or
other items of value. A “financial interest” includes any ownership stake, employment
agreement, or independent contracting or consulting arrangement. Ownership of
publicly traded securities does not itself constitute a “financial interest” in a company
under this policy.
• Give any gifts, money or anything else of value to any API employee or their immediate
family members.
• Otherwise use your position as an auditor to seek an improper benefit from a facility or
company affiliated with a facility.
CODE OF CONDUCT FOR API MONOGRAM LICENSEES,
APIQR CERTIFIED ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAM APPLICANTS
API is committed to maintaining the integrity of its licensing and certification programs. • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not use a false identity for the
All licensees, certified organizations and applicants are required to act in a professional purpose of misleading others.
manner in accordance with high ethical standards, and to comply with all licensing and • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not imply that API is endorsing
program requirements at all times. For the purpose of this Advisory, the term “licensees, their products.
certified organizations and applicants” includes all organizations licensed, registered,
certified or under application with the API Monogram™ Program and/or APIQR,™ as well as • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not misrepresent their
those organizations’ employees, consultants, and other representatives involved in the API relationship with API, its members, officers, or directors.
licensing and certification process. • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not distribute false information
about API, its activities, or its members.
A failure by a licensee, certified organization or applicant to comply with the following
requirements could result in a delay in the licensing and/or certification process, • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not offer or provide any form
cancellation of an application, or termination of an existing license and/or certificate: of bribe or anything else of value to any API staff member, API auditor, other API
representative, or API staff member’s, auditor’s or other representative’s family or
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall conduct themselves in a friends, directly or indirectly. “Anything else of value” includes, but is not limited to,
professional manner during an audit. cash, gifts, hospitality, services, commission, rebates, discounts, loans, vacations, event
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall observe high standards of tickets, entertainment, trips, or other items of value.
ethical conduct to ensure that the integrity of the program is protected. • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants must promptly report to API any
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not slander, insult, abuse, (1) solicitation of a bribe or anything else of value in connection with an API audit
harass, or threaten API, its staff members, its auditors, or its other representatives, or (2) offer by an API auditor to provide any services to an audited facility within
either verbally or in written correspondence. 24 months of conducting an API audit, whether such services are related to API or
not. Reports may be made by contacting the Audit Program Manager at Audits@[Link]
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not engage in any conduct or by contacting any of API’s offices or any API staff member in person, by phone, or
that is designed to prevent or frustrate API employees or representatives, including by email.
auditors, from performing an evaluation of the licensees’ qualifications.
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not discuss future employment
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not make false claims of opportunities with any API staff member, API auditor or other API representative,
API certification or approval or otherwise infringe upon or misuse any intellectual or an immediate family member of an API staff member, API auditor, or other API
property or other property right of API, including, but not limited to, copyrights, representative while that API staff member, API auditor, or other API representative
trademarks, or confidential information. is involved in evaluating a license application or renewal.
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not assist a third party in • Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not reimburse API staff members,
making false claims of API certification or approval or otherwise infringing upon or API auditors, or other API representatives for lodging and travel expenses or for any
misusing any intellectual property or other property right of API, including, but not other costs associated with an audit. Licensees, certified organizations and applicants
limited to, copyrights, trademarks, or confidential information. may not provide, and API staff members, API auditors, and other API representatives
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not provide API or its may not accept, local ground transportation or standard accommodations on the
representatives, including auditors, with false or misleading information. facility’s premises, unless alternative lodging is not readily available and prior, written
• Licensees, certified organizations and applicants shall not violate any program-related approval has been provided by API staff.
API policy or any term or condition of the license agreement.
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