Governance, Risk, and Compliance

GRC Consulting for Automotive

What we do

DCGroup helps automotive safety and compliance teams build governance, risk, and compliance programs that are clear, practical, and audit ready. We turn DOT and NHTSA expectations into everyday steps, align policy and controls with how your organization actually works, and design reporting that gives leaders a single, trusted view of risk.

Focus Areas

Regulatory mapping
Turn Safety Act obligations and Parts 573, 577, and 579 into a traceable control set with clear owners, review points, and evidence expectations.

Policy and control design
Write simple policies and right sized controls that people can actually follow, with versioned evidence capture ready for audits and leadership reviews.

Risk and issue management
Use a shared risk register, heatmaps, and issue tracking that plug into your safety office workflow, so risks and incidents move through one consistent process.

Third party oversight
Stand up fit for purpose due diligence and monitoring for suppliers, dealers, and service partners, with clear expectations and follow through.

Training and readiness
Provide short, role based training and tabletop exercises that prepare teams for incidents, inquiries, and management reviews.

Pre-incident and risk consulting

Current state review
Assess your existing policies, processes, and tools to see how work really flows today.

Gap and risk analysis
Compare practices against Safety Act expectations and ISO 26262 awareness so gaps and exposures are clear.

Practical roadmap
Build a prioritized plan with quick wins and realistic timelines that fit your teams and budgets.

Control library and evidence plan
Stand up a simple control set and evidence approach your teams can maintain without adding unnecessary overhead.

Post-incident support

Roles and workflow clarity
Clarify who does what from intake to closure so responses are organized and repeatable.

Documentation and response prep
Prepare clean documentation and responses for internal reviews, regulators, and other external stakeholders.

Audit ready records
Tighten records, indexing, and timelines so future audits and inquiries land on complete, well structured files.

Continuous improvement
Capture lessons learned from each incident and fold them back into policy, controls, and training so readiness improves over time.

Governance, security, and quality

Deployment choice
Run in your own cloud or through a secure exchange, aligned with your security, retention, and business continuity standards.

Access and control
Apply role based access and audit logging so you always know who viewed, changed, or approved policies, controls, and risk records.

Evidence and traceability
Maintain versioned artifacts, control histories, and issue files so every decision and exception is backed by a clear, reviewable record.

Quality and coordination
Align designs with ISO 26262 and ASPICE awareness, and coordinate across quality, safety, legal, and IT so the GRC program is embedded in how the organization actually runs.

Built to fit your organization

Every program is shaped to fit your business. We configure policies, control sets, risk scoring, workflows, forms, and dashboards around your plants, programs, and suppliers. You decide the deployment model, review cadence, and level of DCGroup support. Many clients start with one product line or region, then expand with confidence as value becomes clear.