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Just to let you know, we are not experts in every compliance topic in every country in the world. To be experts, we would have to employ hundreds of subject matter experts around the world and that is not who we are.
However, because we deal with thousands of certificates across various industries, we pick up a lot of useful information and because we are curious, we do a bit of research to get a basic understanding of the document and what it’s used for. We happily make this information available for free and provided in good faith on the basis that it may provide some guidance.
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All of the global glossary articles follow this template. It’s not 100% perfect so please bear with us as we update over 100 articles.
ORC Matrix
Strytex has developed the ORC matrix (Obligations, Risk and Compliance) as a tool so that organisations can structure their operational compliance records in a systematic framework. It is similar to the way the finance department structures your financial records into ledgers e.g Sales Ledger, Purchasing Ledger and General Ledger.
Obligation Hierarchy
We’ve prioritised obligations into 6 levels. For a detailed description please see the article Obligation Hierarchy.
- Legal
- Critical
- Best
- Ethics
- Discretionary
- Legacy
Risk Topic
Every organisation is subject to multiple risks and every organisation has it’s own way of describing each risk topic. Here we will try to highlight the main risk topics.
Compliance Class
After analysing over 10,000 compliance documents, we’ve categorised them as into six classes.
- Asset
- Company
- Product
- Contract
- Property
- Staff
Description and purpose
This will have a brief explanation of what the glossary item is all about.
Details
Depending on the type of glossary document, it has key aspects to it. We will pick out the most important, from a compliance perspective.
Renewal frequency
Many documents have multiple renewal periods, for example, you may have a 5-year drivers licences or a 10-year drivers licence. Asset maintenance or food safety documents have multiple renewal and/or maintenance frequencies. For example in Australia fire extinguishers must be serviced
- six-monthly
- yearly
- every 5 years.
Variants
Occasionally, but not always, we will group a set of documents because they are all variants on a single type of document theme, e.g
- Public Liability Insurance,
- Product Liability Insurance
- etc.
2nd level attributes
This is different to variants. Some glossary items have critical complaince related 2nd level attributes,
- how much is the liability insurance for?
- what type of plumber licence is it and what types of work are they authorised to carry out?
You want to make sure your suppleir has the right level of insurance, you want to make sure your plumber is qualified to carry out the task.
Also known as
Some glossary items have multiple names. It may depend on what part of the world you are in, what profession you are in or even how knowledgeable you are. For example, a drivers licence may also be known as a vehicle licence.
Geographic relevance
Glossary items can apply globally, across a trading zone, or just for one country. For example, a BWOF (Building Warrant of Fitness) is only used in New Zealand.
How and when Used
Internal compliance
How and when to use the glossary item for internal compliance
External compliance
How and when to use the glossary item for external compliance, e.g suppliers, contractors, supply network etc.
Obligation force
We believe the root cause of all obligations are external. Some are obvious, namely government statutes and regulations; others have less obvious external root causes. Applying the classic PESTLE analysis provides a starting point. Adding root cause analysis expands the picture. For example, this diagram provides a simple starting point.
We will attempt to define the external force for each glossary document
Internal controls
Obligations are often tied to a risk control, a policy or procedure.
Useful links
Kind of self-explanatory however we will not always include the link down as links get broken or archived.