Your comprehensive ethics management and compliance solution

Ethics compliance software is a type of software or SaaS program that helps organisations ensure that they are adhering to ethical standards and regulations. It typically includes tools for monitoring and managing compliance-related activities, such as policy development, training, incident reporting, and auditing. Ethics compliance software is important because it helps organisations avoid legal and reputational risks, promotes ethical behaviour among employees and stakeholders, and demonstrates their commitment to ethical standards.

Choosing the right ethics compliance software for your organisation depends on a variety of factors, such as your industry, size, budget, and specific compliance needs. Some key features to look for when evaluating ethics compliance software include automated policy management and distribution, customisable compliance workflows, integrated training and awareness tools, real-time monitoring and reporting capabilities, and the ability to integrate with other systems and data sources. It's also important to consider factors such as vendor reputation, customer support, and data security when selecting an ethics compliance software provider.

Ethics compliance software can help organisations manage risks related to data privacy and cybersecurity in several ways. For example, it can provide tools for tracking and reporting on data privacy compliance activities, such as data inventory and classification, data access and sharing controls, and incident response planning. It can also help organisations stay up to date with evolving cybersecurity threats and regulations, by providing automated risk assessments, vulnerability scans, and threat intelligence feeds. Additionally, many ethics compliance software providers offer built-in data security features, such as encryption, access controls, and secure data storage, to help organisations protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorised access or breaches.

All users rely on the system but each group will do so in their own way.  Administrators might coordinate workflows or committee members conduct reviews, whilst researchers may submit and track any ongoing applications. Our compliance management solutions are built to provide support to every role.

Yes. The system supports animal research ethics, human research ethics, biosafety, and gene technology processes. The solution handles both animal research ethics and human research ethics in a single integrated system.

It uses SmartForms, validation rules, structured review stages, meeting tools, decision capture, digital approvals, and automated notifications.

Yes. Workflows, forms, rules, templates, and review steps can be set up and configured to fall in line with your organisation’s policies.

Utilise interactive dashboards, drill-down reports, scheduled reporting, data exports, and real-time analytics. All of this is available in one ethics compliance software solution.

Implementation is determined by process complexity and configuration needs. Most teams complete rollout through a structured onboarding plan that covers setup, testing, training, and launch.

• Human, Animal ethics applications
• Compliance (e.g. Biosafety, gene technology)
• Governance - Site Specific Assessment
• HREA form (including export to ERM)
• Victorian Specific Module
• Low and negligible risk and high risk
• Integrated CRM

• Application form submission
• Invitation, sharing and collaboration
• Amendments including tracked changes
• Versioning (form and document)
• Copy and form pre-population
• Document versioning

• Chat-like review commentary and applicant feedback
• Attendance recording, iCal invitations & online meeting
• Pre-meeting reviews and Conflict of Interest
• Request for more information
• Meeting agenda and minute auto-generation
• Single-file PDF meeting pack

• Automated committee allocation
• Committee membership & management including role management
• Recording of committee decisions

• User-definable business rules
• Drag and drop workflow editor
• Customisable workflow steps
• Intuitive WYSIWYG SmartForm editor
• Pre-population, validation, branching logic and advanced functionality
• Configurable stages and statuses

• Adverse events/Safety reports
• Annual and final reports
• Report scheduling and automated reminders
• Report review and acceptance/approval

• Drag and drop dashboard and report editor
• Interactive (drill down/filter) dashboards and reports
• Pre-built dashboards and reports
• Dashboard & report sharing

• Data export (Excel, Image, PDF, etc)
• Temporal data warehouse
• Geospatial visualisations
• Enterprise Reporting Connector (ERC)

• User-definable fields, lookups and validation rules
• Configurable home page & tiles
• Customisable pages
• Configurable labels and text

• Configurable document templates (Word, Excel, PDF, etc)
• Configurable email templates
• Tokenised email and document templates
• Branded email and document templates

• Approval certificate generation including approved document list
• Conditional approval
• Digital decisions (full committee and executive level) & out-of-session approvals
• Approved animal numbers
• Facility management

• HR integration
• Document/records management integration
• Animal species integration
• ORCID integration
• Google+ integration
• Microsoft Teams integration
• DocuSign integration
• REST APIs & Webhooks
• Centralised view of all email (inbound and outbound email)

• Configurable password policy
• Password blacklist validation
• Role & record-based security
• Single Sign-on
• Multi-factor Authentication (TOTP and Email)
• Advanced encryption (rest and in transit)

• IRAP and ISO 27001 certified
• GDPR & compliance with privacy principles
• Independent vulnerability & penetration testing
• Disaster recovery testing
• Load/performance testing