Resources
Templates, policies and checklists you can use today
Free to copy, adapt and use. No permission needed and nothing to sign up for. Written to be adopted as they stand, then made your own.
Policies and procedures
The foundation: a full anti-bribery policy and a speak-up procedure.
12 min read
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy (full template)
A complete policy a supplier can adopt in an afternoon: what is forbidden, what is allowed, who is responsible, and how it is kept alive. Pair it with the supplement for your country.
7 min read
Short-form anti-corruption and bribery policy (for incorporation into contracts)
A short, numbered policy dated 11 July 2018, written for the yachting sector and designed to be attached to a contract or adopted as it stands. It focuses on the UK Bribery Act 2010.
3 min read
Speak-up and investigation procedure
How to let people raise concerns safely, and how to deal with them fairly. A procedure you can adopt as it stands.
Training
Sessions you can run yourself: crew induction, sales-team training, scenarios and quizzes.
5 min read
Crew induction programme: gifts, commissions and kickbacks (facilitator pack)
A 60-minute session for captains, management companies and heads of department to run for every new joiner, with scripts, scenarios, a quiz and a sign-off sheet.
2 min read
Sales team code: one page, and what to say when asked for commission
A single page for everyone who talks to customers: the rules, the words to use, and what to do next.
5 min read
Anti-bribery training pack: 60-minute session, scenarios and quiz
Everything you need to train a sales, purchasing or management team: an agenda, ten yachting scenarios with answers, a twelve-question quiz and an attendance sheet.
Templates and forms
Declarations, registers, questionnaires and letters. Copy them, adapt them, put your name on them.
1 min read
Owner's APA transparency letter
A short, polite letter an owner or guest can send to the captain, manager and broker before a charter or season.
1 min read
Broker disclosure statement
A one-page statement a broker can give a client before a transaction, so there is nothing to hide.
4 min read
Supplier declaration: no hidden payments (three-part form)
A declaration a supplier signs for its customers, a declaration it asks of its own suppliers, and one for agents and introducers.
2 min read
Gifts, hospitality and commission-requests register
One register that protects the person who keeps it. Log every offer and every request, given, received, accepted or declined.
3 min read
Due diligence questionnaire for agents, brokers and introducers
Ask these questions before you appoint, or pay, anyone who finds you business. The answers, and any refusal to answer, are the point.
3 min read
Anti-bribery risk assessment (template, with yachting scenarios)
A short, practical assessment of where bribery could happen in your business and what you do about each risk. Do it once a year and after anything changes.
2 min read
Annual compliance certificate (staff and company)
A short statement that each person signs once a year, and the company signs for itself. It turns a policy into a personal commitment.
4 min read
Vendor Promise launch kit: announcements, answers and wording you can copy
Everything you need to tell your customers, your team and your market that you have made the promise: a statement, an email, posts, tender answers and a press note.
Checklists
Quick ways to test whether what you have is working.
3 min read
Head-of-department cheat sheets: who offers what, and what to do
One page each for captain, purser, chef, chief stewardess, chief engineer and bosun: the offers they are most likely to meet, and the answer.
2 min read
How to choose suppliers you can trust: a checklist for owners, managers and brokers
Ten questions that separate suppliers who earn your trust from suppliers who buy it, and how to ask them without causing offence.
5 min read
Annual anti-bribery self-audit checklist
Forty questions that tell you, honestly, whether your policy is working. Do it once a year and report the result to the directors.