P0000001xxx they will have an s and a audit conducted by commercial purchaser ngo retailer trade union brand owner. From a shared sedex and bsci antihuman trafficking programme to our shared vision to explore opportunities to. Sedex members ethical audit smeta best practice guidance. Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta measurement criteria. Social compliance audit checklist more than 100 audit questions to help auditors in auditing to ensure that social compliance and best ethical practices requirements are fulfilled. Sedex is a nonprofit membership organisation dedicated to driving improvements in ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chains. This common approach will help drive a common view of audit quality for suppliers, brands and retailers across the globe. Sedex, the supplier ethical data exchange, is a notforprofit organisation based in london, uk, open for membership to any company anywhere in the world. Working in alignment with the association for professional social compliance auditors apsca, bsci and sedex will develop and launch shared auditor metrics for the management of audit quality. For consistency, sedex members recommend following the below approach to audit frequency. Social compliance certification documents porcedures. There are approximately 240 questions across all sections of the selfassessment that will not export. The report has been uploaded to the sedex database.
Human rights due diligence is an ongoing risk management process that an organisation takes to both identify and act to prevent risks on workers and uphold human rights. Reducing the number of audits by submitting supply chain audit results to the database, sedex helps ensuring transparency and reuse of existing audit data. The provisions of this code constitute minimum and not maximum standards and this code should not be used to prevent companies from exceeding these standards. Factory checks the age before recruitment by the doctor and maintains age related documents in the workers personnel files. Emergency preparedness plan a sample copy of a major emergency preparedness plan and records maintaining for all the details in the 01 file. Jan 31, 2019 taking a corporate human rights due diligence approach. The risk assessment tool is only available to sedex a and ab members who have attended training on how to understand and interpret the risk information including within the tool saq guidance management controls report 1 day after completing the questionnaire, you will see a management controls report in sedex analytics. Guidance for registering on sedex and linking to kingfisher. A best practice guidance on conducting ethical trade audits. Taking a corporate human rights due diligence approach. Cdg is the most trusted name worldwide for sedex compliance. F 002sdx application for proposal sedex smeta audit. Below is a list of frequently asked questions about the saq. Enterprises which perform a sedexaudit according to the smetaguidelines and share this.
Using smeta, a supplier can have one audit conducted and share it with multiple customers, rather than having a different audit conducted for each customer. I have registered as a nonmember and signed into my account, but i cannot find the saq. Sample major emergency preparedness plan 01 sample file in ms word total 140 files quick download in editable form by edelivery chapter1. If the brand retailer is paying, name should be removed for sedex upload comment sedex6. The supplier ethical data exchange sedex is a notforprofit, membership organisation that leads work with buyers and suppliers to deliver improvements in responsible and ethical business practices in global supply chains. A set of instructions on the items to be checked by auditors smeta 6. Sedex audit is system which decreases number of buyers audit in your organisation. The sedex associate auditor group has worked together to develop the sedex members ethical trade audit, a publically available audit procedure which is a compilation of good practice in ethical audit technique. This allows customers to view data related to supply chain auditing from multiple parties, thus increasing the efficiency of supply chain auditing.
The supplier ethical data exchange sedex is a notforprofit, membership organisation. Normally a third party auditor will upload the report. Audit and a 4pillar smeta audit, which includes the. How to audit and optimize a pdf file using acrobat xi pro. Practice guidance covers both a 2pillar smeta audit and a. From a shared sedex and bsci antihuman trafficking programme to. Application for proposal sedex smeta audit f 002sdx iqnet ltd bollwerk 31 ch3011 bern switzerland phone. Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta measurement criteria version 6. The duration of any given audit depends on the number of employees and locations.
As a retailer, kingfisher is a sedex a member and this gives kingfisher full visibility of. Sedex was founded in 2001 by a group of retailers to drive convergence in. Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta best practice. Both a clinicianadministered version page 1 and a selfreport version of the audit page 2 are provided. Sedex supplier ethical data exchange program is a webbased system designed to help businesses improveethical performance of their supply chain. Audits in the smeta format focus as much on labor conditions and occupational safety as on environmental standards and ethical business practices. High risk annual audit medium risk 2yearly audit low risk at customers discretion 3. Sedex is a membership organisation for businesses committed to continuous improvement of the ethical performance of their supply chains. Smeta 4pillar audit guidance for suppliers for extended. Compliance with california transparency in supply chain act.
The sedex database enables its members to manage their suppliers and reduce their risks by exchanging information on ethical performance. The audit body is required to upload the audit report onto sedex, and the supplier is responsible for ensuring that it is published so that tesco may access the report. The sedex audit company group operate the worlds largest collaborative platform for managing ethical supply chain data. Sedex buyer members can access submitted saq data as a download or within our risk assessment tool. Supplier approval and management using sedex appendix a.
Fairly traded supplier approval and management using sedex. Sede members ethical trade audit smeta best practice guidance version 6. For sedex supplier members, the saq provides feedback for current business practices and areas of improvement to help enhance performance, and as the saq aligns with smeta it can be used as a preaudit tool to help you prepare for a smeta audit. Emergency preparedness plan a sample copy of a major emergency preparedness plan and records maintaining for all. Audit formats for mutually recognised ethical audits coles may accept the following ethical audit formats as aligning with our ethical sourcing policy. See further details below on risk assessment and audit. Both sedex and bsci members will gain from this work equally. Enterprises which perform a sedex audit according to the smetaguidelines and share this.
The audit process is a sampling exercise only and does not guarantee that the audited site prior, during or postaudit, are in full compliance with the code being audited against. If the site wants the report to be uploaded to sedex, p number. This environment section is intended to take not more than 0. Our recordkeeping policy includes the suppliers sedex questionnaire, audit reports or audit company reporting letters. There are three types of sedex membership a, ab, and b. All auditors conducting smeta are required to pay a fee to access smeta or upload nonsmeta audits on the sedex platform. The system was designed for the user to easily complete their saq online within rbaonline. It is an assessment only and the main requirement is to establish whether a site is meeting applicable environmental laws andor has any certifications or environmental management systems in. Each organisation will be able to bring its members much larger and richer programmes than either bsci or sedex could launch individually. There are detailed help guidance documents available.
Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta measurement. Audit introduction the alcohol use disorders identification test audit is a 10item screening tool developed by the world health organization who to assess alcohol consumption, drinking behaviors, and alcoholrelated problems. Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta is an audit procedure which is a compilation of good practice in ethical audit technique. Smeta sedex members ethical trade audit is the audit procedure created by the sedex membership which is a compilation of good practice in ethical audit technique. Guidance for registering on sedex and linking to kingfisher step 6 uploading audits upload a recent site audit for each site. Selfassessment questionnaire saq responsible business. Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta best practice guidance. Sedex members ethical trade audit smeta measurement criteria ersion. Taking a corporate human rights due diligence approach sedex.
Sedex buyer or buyersupplier members can conduct smeta for their own sites and only auditors with a sedex affiliate audit company aac account can conduct smeta. Sedex auditor membership as a member of sedex, we perform all audits in accordance with the sedex associate auditor groups best practice guidelines. Smeta is one of the several systems that are referenced in standards map, the interactive webbased tool on voluntary sustainability standards developed by the t4sd program of itc. Criteria for inclusion in the audit company group on sedex 1 criteria for inclusion in the audit company group on sedex introduction sedex has recently created the opportunity for audit companies who are not members of the associate auditor group aag to be visible on the sedex system, when a supplier wishes to initiate an audit.
Kingfisher ethical and environmental audit policy standard. Review the list of document contents, and the amount of space used. It is one of a series of documents which support a 4pillar audit process which include. Compliance th alifornia ransparency n upply hain ct septemer 019 ersion. Preferred audit methodology aligned with other retailers semiannounced audit window sedex upload mandatory. After the audit, the audit body will issue a full written report in pdf format normally in 5 working days. The sedex members ethical trade audit smeta at a glance this document provides an overview of the sedex members ethical trade audit smeta best practice guidance. Questions and answers about smeta sedex audits tuv rheinland. An option to complete the saq offline in excel is also available, but please note that questions requiring attachments do not export to excel. Smeta was designed to minimize duplication of effort and provide aag members with an audit format they could easily share. Zs3534698 cabo blanco audit conducted by auditoria realizada por commercial. Noncompliance discovered in audits is followed by subsequent remediation and audits until compliance is established. The news has been published from our own news reporter as well as from the sources of various news sites, blog websites, bangla and english websites.
By doing so, improvements regarding ethically sustainable business practices can be made throughout the production chain. Since 2004, over 30,000 organizations around the world have made this their platform of choice, making sedex the largest collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data, thus. Date 003122 sedex 20171129 dqs cfs gmbh german association for sustainability. Announced, semiannounced and unannounced audits 78 a3. The sedexdatabase enables its members to manage their suppliers and reduce their risks by exchanging information on ethical performance.
Iqnet ltd application for proposal sedex smeta audit f 002sdx iqnet ltd bollwerk 31 ch3011 bern switzerland phone. Rbaonline has been designed to make it easy to complete the selfassessment questionnaire saq online and share it with multiple customers. Sedex members ethical trade audits required document checklist of sgs. Additional documents which support the audit process can be found on the member. Companies join sedex in order to use the sedex webbased system, participate in sedex governance. All documents reflect the latest version of smeta 6.
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