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SMETA – 2 pillar and 4 pillar assessments

Control Union Certifications 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.

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    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 labor, 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 labor.

    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.

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    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.

    How you benefit

    Gain a greater understanding of the social and environmental performance of your business and suppliers

    Assess and monitor higher-risk suppliers on their performance over time

    Data can be shared with multiple buyers, reducing the number of audits you’ll need to collect

    SMETA provides a Corrective Action Plan to help improve supplier performance and resolve issues found in the audit

    SMETA audits facilitate compliance with existing and upcoming legislation

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    How can I help you?

    Are you looking for a certain service or do you have any questions about the certification program? Let me know. My name is Prabhath Rathnayake and I’m glad to help.