compliance

Examples of compliance in the following topics:

• Affirmative Action

  • OFCCP conducts compliance reviews to investigate the employment practices of government contractors.
  • During a compliance review, a compliance officer examines the contractor's affirmative action program, checks personnel, payroll, and other employment records, interviews employees and company officials, and investigates virtually all aspects of employment in the company.

• Activities in the Human Resources Department

  • Ensuring compliance with legal and cultural expectations when it comes to employee compensation
  • Ensuring compliance with legal requirements based on job function for safety measures (i.e. hard hats in construction, available counseling for law enforcement, appropriate safety equipment for chemists, etc.)

• Calculating carbon footprints

  • Calculating a ‘carbon footprint' (i.e. the amount of carbon dioxide a process creates) is a trendy way to measure carbon emissions with the added benefit that, when lowered, the numbers can be used in public relations campaigns or to prove compliance with emissions legislation.

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• Collection from Delinquent Payables

  • Debt compliance describes various legal measures taken to ensure that debtors honor their debts.
  • In finance, the term "debt compliance" describes various legal measures taken to ensure that debtors, whether individuals, businesses, or governments, honor their debts and make an honest effort to repay the money that they owe.
  • Generally, regarded as a subdivision of tax law, debt compliance is most often enforced through a combination of audits and legal restrictions.

• Quality Inspections and Standards

  • Companies ensure the quality of products and services by adhering to ISO standards and performing quality audits to ensure compliance.
  • Quality audits can be an integral part of compliance or regulatory requirements.
  • Evans and Parker (2008) describe auditing as one of the most powerful safety monitoring techniques and "an effective way to avoid complacency and highlight slowly deteriorating conditions," especially when the auditing focuses not just on compliance but effectiveness.

• Banking Crises and Centralized Reserve Enforcements

  • If the Federal Reserve determines that a state member bank or bank holding company has problems that affect the institution's safety and soundness or is not in compliance with laws and regulations, it may take a supervisory action to ensure that the institution undertakes corrective measures.
  • If the Federal Reserve determines that a state member bank or bank holding company has problems that affect the institution's safety and soundness or is not in compliance with laws and regulations, it may take a supervisory action to ensure that the institution undertakes corrective measures.

• Types of environmental audits

  • Compliance audit.
  • Usually part of an overall assessment with an emphasis placed on compliance with environmental legislation and comparisons with ISO 14004 environmental management systems.

• Environmental audits

  • Additional services can include degrees of compliance with environmental laws and regulations, uncovering the expectations of customers, and liability obligations.

• Environmental audits don't hurt

  • Particularly for first-timers, there is no shame in admitting a lack of knowledge regarding the full range of business operations in terms of regulatory compliance, energy and resource use, raw material sourcing, supply-side issues, the creation and delivery of products and services, the inputs and outputs of offices and/or production facilities, cost relationships with suppliers, and subjects related to environmental management.