The Importance of Program Setup and Administration

The HEXDI.com online compliance program management tool mapped over 1,000 government standards from agency manuals, memoranda, consent agreements, and other sources. To address overlaps and duplicities, HEXDI merged the standards into hundreds of individual line items, organized under 12 top-level compliance modules as follows:

Compliance Module

Percent of Total Standards

1. MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT 9%
2. PROGRAM SETUP AND ADMINISTRATION 23%
3. TRAINING 10%
4. JURISDICTION, CLASSIFICATION, AND MARKING 5%
5. PHYSICAL SECURITY AND ACCESS CONTROL 2%
6. TRANSACTION SCREENING 8%
7. AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT 7%
8. EXPORT/IMPORT CLEARANCE 4%
9. THIRD PARTY MANAGEMENT 2%
10. RECORDKEEPING 5%
11. AUDITS AND ASSESSMENTS 10%
12. HANDLING VIOLATIONS 13%

As shown above, the greatest number of government standards falls under the Program Setup and Administration Module, which accounts for nearly a quarter of all the government standards. This module includes standards requiring the identification of key employees with responsibilities under the program; locating key employees in a company unit that minimizes potential conflicts of interest; sufficiently empowering key employees to perform their responsibilities; and ensuring that key employees have sufficient competencies, qualifications, and training to perform their responsibilities. Considering the combined government agency focus on these standards, they present a priority for virtually every compliance program.

More detailed information on the HEXDI items and modules and a comprehensive listing of the U.S. Government standard sources mapped by the tool are available at HEXDI.com. The HEXDI tool is regularly updated, so the distribution of agency standards may change over time.