Qualified people perform and review the work.
Training, experience, technical qualifications, and access to specialist expertise establish competency expectations.
GOVERNANCE & ASSURANCE
Integrity management requires clear authority, accountability, and assurance.
CONTROL & ASSURANCE
Governance establishes responsibility, authority, requirements, and assurance.
A defensible integrity management system defines who is qualified to act, who has authority to decide, which requirements govern the work, and how conformance is demonstrated.
Decision rights are explicit.
Ownership, technical authority, approvals, escalation paths, and accountability define who can make and accept integrity decisions.
Requirements govern how work is performed.
Codes, standards, procedures, acceptance criteria, and work processes establish repeatable technical controls.
Changes receive deliberate review.
Changes to assets, service, operating conditions, methods, or requirements are evaluated before their consequences are accepted.
The basis of compliance remains retrievable.
Requirements, approvals, technical records, exceptions, and closure evidence create an auditable record.
Performance against requirements is checked.
Reviews, audits, KPIs, recurring findings, and corrective actions show whether controls are functioning as intended.
THE GOVERNANCE TEST
Can the organization show who decided, on what basis, what controls applied, what was verified, and what changed afterward?
When those connections remain visible, governance strengthens assurance, accountability, and Operational Trust.