# ISO/IEC 42001:2023 A.4.6 — Human resources

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- Last updated: 2026-06-05
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**ISO/IEC 42001:2023**·Annex A `A.4.6`·medium·Component: **Organizational controls**

## What this control requires

> Competent personnel with defined responsibilities shall be assigned to AI-related activities and supported with training and oversight.
> 
> — ISO/IEC 42001:2023, Annex A A.4.6

### In plain English

Competent personnel with defined responsibilities shall be assigned to AI-related activities and supported with training and oversight. In practice, this means you can prove you define resources-level controls on a defined cadence.

## Why it matters

ISO 42001 is the first audited evidence regulators, customers and investors can ask for that you are managing AI risk. Each Annex A control is a check-box in that audit; it is also the management system enterprises are starting to require from AI vendors before an MSA can be signed.

## What an auditor looks for

An ISO 42001 auditor verifies you have an AI policy, a risk-based system of impact assessments for each AI system, lifecycle controls from data acquisition through retirement, and third-party-AI controls that pierce the vendor's wrapper to underlying model behaviour.

Within **Organizational controls**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Annex A A.4.6) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles.

## How to implement

1.  Write a short policy stating intent, scope and named owner.
2.  Encode it as a platform guardrail — SCP, Azure Policy initiative, Organisation Policy, or repository policy.
3.  Wire a monitoring signal that catches drift (CSPM rule, SIEM rule, scheduled query, Workspace alert) and ticket it.
4.  Review on a documented cadence and capture the review in the risk register or compliance tracker.

### Operational checklist

-   **Define.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Scope:** resources.

## Evidence to collect

-   **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document.
-   **Identity Scan.** IAM / IdP exports — Entra ID, Okta, IAM Identity Center, Workspace directory — showing accounts, roles, MFA state and last sign-in.

Policies, organizational records, and identity evidence should demonstrate that competent personnel are assigned to AI-related activities with defined responsibilities, access boundaries, and oversight. Focus: Human resources.

## How it maps to other frameworks

Computed from shared tags, control component and key-operation subjects — handy when you are reconciling controls across an audit.

-   [**ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.5.16** — Identity management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022/a-5-16-identity-management)

## Related controls in ISO/IEC 42001:2023

-   [**Annex A A.3.2** — AI roles and responsibilities](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-42001-2023/a-3-2-ai-roles-and-responsibilities)
-   [**Annex A A.4.2** — Resources documentation](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-42001-2023/a-4-2-resources-documentation)
-   [**Annex A A.4.3** — Data resources](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-42001-2023/a-4-3-data-resources)

## References

-   [ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 — ISO/IEC 42001:2023](https://www.iso.org/standard/81230.html)
-   Catalogue identifier: `Annex A A.4.6`

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