All TQCSI auditors are to comply with the following Code of Conduct:
- act professionally, accurately and in an unbiased manner.
- maintain confidentiality in regard to all work involved with the affairs of TQCSI clients.
- do not represent conflicting or competing interests.
- do not communicate false or misleading information that may compromise the integrity of any audit
- do not have any personal interest in the affairs of the companies audited.
- do not provide auditing or technical specialist services to companies to whom consultancy or training services have also been provided in the previous two and a half years.
- do not offer or provide consulting or training services to companies to whom auditing services have been provided in the previous two and a half years.
- do not disclose any details of systems, methods, processes, ideas, data, knowledge, facts, figures or any other information that becomes known related to the companies audited.
- do not discuss or disclose any information relating to an audit, including audit findings and certification decisions, unless required by law or authorised by contractual arrangements (such as with the Accreditation Body) or authorised in writing by the client.
- do not remove any documents from clients' premises unless it is part of the auditing activity and approved by the client.
- do not accept any inducement, commission, gift or any other benefit from a client, their employees or any third party.