Service - Next Gen Standard

Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit is the world’s most widely used audit.

• • SMETA is an audit, which helps you to understand standards of labour, health and safety, environmental performance, and ethics within your own operations or at a supplier site.
  • Delivered by one of our approved auditor companies, you or your supplier is provided with a Corrective Action Plan to help improve performance in these areas.

The SMETA audit is designed to help protect workers from unsafe conditions, overwork, discrimination, low pay, and forced labour

Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production is the world’s largest independent certification program focused on the apparel, footwear, and sewn products sectors. Achieving a WRAP certification is a collaborative approach, working with facilities to ensure they remain in compliance with our 12 Principles. Facilities must be actively engaged, ensuring effective management systems are in place and demonstrating that they can and do fulfill their social compliance obligations.

The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) is an industry-driven movement that aims to monitor and assess workplace standards across the global supply chain. amfori BSCI audit helps a business monitor its supply chain to ensure that all suppliers are treating workers ethically and legally.

Initiative for Compliance and Sustainability actions are based on a common methodology applied by all ICS members and securing a complete control of the audit process by brands. ICS audits are mandated and managed by member companies. Audit launch is a member prerogative, which ensures a total control of the use of ICS tools. Audits are only performed by third party ICS-accredited audit companies. ICS audits are neither certificates nor labels. ICS members share common monitoring rules when critical non-conformities are identified in the factories. The vast majority of ICS audits are semi announced or unannounced.

Fair Labor Association offers membership programs for companies in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors to help them achieve Fair Labor Accreditation through a rigorous multi-year evaluation process. Its Fair Labor Standards improve working conditions and align with international labor rights frameworks such as ILO standards, UN Guiding Principles, and global supply chain laws. Through collaboration with businesses, universities, and civil society organizations, FLA helps companies create meaningful improvements for workers worldwide.

The SA8000 Standard is the world’s leading global certification program for social accountability in the workplace. There are 9 Core Elements of SA8000 such as Child Labor, Forced and Compulsory Labor, Health and Safety, Freedom of Association & Right to Collective Bargaining, Discrimination, Disciplinary Practices, Working Hours, Remuneration, and Management Systems.

The audit standard which is designed as per respective client’s requirements.

The generic social audit standards are the benchmark standards developed by responsible third-party audit firms.