SMETA – 2 pillar and 4 pillar assessments
Control Union UK offers SMETA (Sedex Member Ethical Trade Audit) auditing, a method developed by the multi stakeholder consultation initiative, Sedex. SMETA’s role is to align social audit standards and monitoring practices, to ease the auditing burden on suppliers by sharing reports and driving improvements in supply chain labour standards.
SMETA – 2 pillar and 4 pillar assessments
About the standard
SMETA, an audit process, serves as a comprehensive tool to evaluate and enhance standards concerning labour, health and safety, environmental practices, and ethical conduct within your organization’s operations or at a supplier’s site.
The audit house will provide a Corrective Action Plan to either you or your supplier to help improve performance in the areas identified.
By conducting a SMETA audit, the overarching goal is to safeguard workers against hazardous conditions, exploitation, discrimination, inadequate compensation, and any form of forced labour.
Sedex
Sedex is one of the world’s leading ethical trade service providers, working to improve working conditions in global supply chains. Sedex provides practical tools, services and a community network to help companies improve their responsible and sustainable business practices and source responsibly. Sedex offers leading products and services that enable members and Affiliate Audit Companies (AAC) like Control Union Certifications, to bring together different kinds of data, methodologies, standards and certifications.
Control Union Certifications
Granted as an Affiliate Audit Companies (AAC) of Sedex
Control Union Certifications is an Affiliate Audit Companies (AAC) of Sedex. Sedex is home to one of the world’s leading collaborative platforms for buyers and suppliers to store, share and report on ethical and social audit information quickly and easily.
Sedex helps more than 60,000 members in over 180 countries to work together to better manage their social and environmental performance, and implement measures to protect people, the environment and their business. Being granted an AAC account indicates Control Union’s commitment to correctly use SMETA, the Sedex social audit methodology, and to conduct audits with quality and integrity.
Control Union UK is authorised to carry out audits for this programme.
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