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Bribery Prevention

Despite a worldwide effort to eradicate bribery, it is still prevalent in many countries and presents a real risk for businesses.

Bribery is a criminal offence and a predicate offence that can lead to money laundering charges. Both offences carry harsh penalties, including imprisonment and unlimited fines.

Any substantial gifts or hospitality could be seen as a bribe, including charitable donations. Even small favours that you think nothing of could be perceived as inducements.

Our Bribery Prevention Course will help your employees to understand what bribery is, the relevant anti-bribery laws and your systems and procedures for bribery prevention.

  • 30 Minutes
  • All staff
  • Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.
  • Compliance Essentials Library

Learning objectives

  • Define bribery and explain its consequences
  • Identify bribery risks and red flags
  • Comply with your Company's policies for gifts, corporate hospitality, travel expenses, donations, sponsorships and facilitation payments
  • Take steps to reduce bribery by associated persons (agents, contractors, third parties, etc) who work for us
  • Recognise how to seek advice and report concerns or suspicions of bribery

Introduction

  • Introduction to bribery
  • What is bribery?
  • Key offences
  • Penalties
  • You decide: Violation or no violation?

Our Anti-Bribery Policy

  • What this means in practice

Gifts, hospitality & expenses

  • Crossing the line: Gifts, hospitality & expenses
  • Crossing the line: Inappropriate gifts
  • Best practice: Gifts, hospitality & expenses
  • You decide: Should it be signed off?
  • Scenario: The watch

Donations & sponsorships

  • Crossing the line: Donations and sponsorships
  • Best practice: Donations and sponsorships
  • Scenario: The tender
  • Scenario: The fundraiser

Associated persons

  • You decide: Associated or not?
  • Crossing the line: Associated persons
  • Reducing the risks with associated persons
  • Identifying red flags
  • Working with associated persons
  • Scenario: Conducting due diligence
  • Scenario: The rumour

Foreign Public Officials

  • Crossing the line: Foreign Public Officials
  • Best practice: Dealing with FPOs
  • You decide: Suspicious or not?

Facilitation payments

  • Crossing the line: Facilitation payments
  • Scenario: Stopped at a checkpoint
  • Scenario: An inspector calls

Recruitment & placements

  • Crossing the line: Recruitment & placements
  • Scenario: A vacancy
  • You decide: Perceptions of bribery

Record keeping

  • Crossing the line: Record keeping
  • Scenario: Copy & paste

Anti-bribery laws & regulations worldwide

  • Crossing the line: Anti-bribery laws & regulations worldwide
  • You decide: Understanding anti-bribery laws worldwide

Reporting bribery & concerns

  • You decide: To report or not?
  • Scenario: Pressured environment
  • Scenario: The corporate box

Summary

Affirmation

Assessment

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Your questions, answered

How can I monitor and manage anti-bribery compliance in my organisation?

Implementing a gifts and hospitality register enables you to monitor and manage anti-bribery compliance effectively. Employees can log gifts, entertainment, and hospitality, providing a transparent overview of potential risks.

How can I effectively distribute my anti-bribery policy to employees?

Our Policy Hub allows you to upload and distribute your anti-bribery policy seamlessly to all employees. This centralised platform simplifies policy distribution and includes an attestation feature, ensuring employees acknowledge and commit to complying with the policy.

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarationssurveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

  • You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
  • For major legislative changes, we:
    • Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
    • Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
    • Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

How can I give employees a secure way to record suspicious activity so we can act quickly?

Our Suspicious Activity Register allows staff to log concerns or irregularities they observe, helping you detect potential issues early. The secure register can be reviewed by compliance teams, enabling prompt investigation and action.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features

Supported file types and details

File Exchange

File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB

SCORM files

Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB

xAPI file

Max file size: 2GB

Videos

File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help

Images

File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB

CPD evidence

File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Policy documents

PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Offline activities evidence

File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Client logo files

File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG

Registers

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Declarations

JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files