Tier 1 Governance Oversight & Guidance
What Tier 1 service delivers
Provide foundational oversight to ensure the management system remains active, aligned with business needs, and audit-ready.
Primary Driver & Focus
Prevent system drift between certification audits through structured governanceoversight and guidance activities. Includes annual ISO health check audit.
Key Service Offerings
- Annual organisational context & needs review
- Half-yearly review of risk profiles and exposures
- Annual review of system objectives
- Annual ISO health check audit
- Annual management review preparation
guidance
Best Suited For
Organisations that require periodic system oversight and guidance, but have internal capability to manage day-today system assurance activities.
Level of Consultant Engagement
Periodic, light-touch oversight.
Typical Cadence
Quarterly touch points with annual strategic and management review guidance, and ISO health check audit.
Outcome Objective
A management system with active planning, monitoring and review that is prepared for external certification audits.
Responsibilities Retained by the Client
- Active system ownership
- Implementation of corrective actions
- Maintenance of management system
processes & administration
- Conducts internal operational process audits and compliance evaluations
- Conducts the management review
Exclusions from Scope
Active implementation and administration of management system assurance; monitoring of organisational context, risks and objectives; internal operational process audits.
Governance Oversight & Guidance
Periodic oversight to maintain alignment and audit readiness
Governance & Assurance Support
Adds internal audits and compliance evaluation to confirm effectiveness
Governance Leadership
Ongoing governance involvement with performance monitoring and improvement.