Description

Social compliance is a focus on your policies and practices as well as those of your supply and distribution chains to protect the rights, health, and safety of workers. A social compliance audit is one that is conducted on-site at your supplier’s facilities to ensure they are operating in-line with accepted standards in these areas. An SA-8000 audit is a social compliance audit that conducted to verify whether a supplier is operating in line with local labor laws and international norms related to social responsibility. It is conducted based on the SA-8000 standard, which is the “leading social certification standard for factories and organizations across the globe,” established by Social Accountability International. SMETA audits use the ETI Base Code, founded on the conventions of the International Labour Organization, as well as relevant local laws. SMETA audits can be conducted against two or four auditing pillars. The two pillars mandatory for any SMETA audit are Labor Standards and Health & Safety. The two additional pillars of a 4-pillar audit were introduced to further deepen the social responsibility aspect of SMETA audits. Our professionally certified auditors can conduct ethical audits according to all major internationally recognized social audits standards, including: SA 8000 SMETA (Sedex) amfori BSCI ETI (ILO) Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) Initiative for Compliance and Sustainability (ICS)