SOCIAL AUDITS

DEMONSTRATE INTEGRITY
AND REDUCE RISK
CONSUMERS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE A RIGOROUS SOCIAL AUDIT PROGRAM
AWARE – AND LESS TOLERANT – ENABLES YOU TO MEET THE GROWING
OF UNETHICAL LABOR PRACTICES. DEMAND FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY.
Whether it be the use of child and forced Bureau Veritas’ range of audit services help
labor, unsafe working conditions or other brands measure, improve and communicate
unscrupulous practices, social issues in social sustainability performance along
upstream supply chains can spell major their entire supply chains. Our global team of
reputational damage. Companies therefore experts conducts social compliance audits to
need complete visibility of their supply industry standards, and works with clients
chains and their own operations. to develop customized solutions.
 SMETA
The Sedex Members Ethical Trade
Audit (SMETA) is an internationally
recognized comprehensive audit
protocol applicable to all sectors.
Its methodology facilitates two-
and four-pillar audits around Labor,
Health and Safety, Environment,
and Business Ethics. Audit results
can be shared securely via Sedex’s
platform, enabling suppliers to avoid
duplicate audits.

SOCIAL
AUDITS
by Bureau Veritas

Independent social compliance

audits offer a rigorous process
for detecting and addressing
risks along your supply chain.
Bureau Veritas offers audits to a CLARITY
wide range of industry standards, CLARITY, Bureau Veritas’ modular
audit system, empowers businesses
as well as customized audits. to address social and other
risks – including health & safety,
environmental, business ethics,
business performance, responsible
procurement and client-specific
issues – along the entire value
chain. Fully customizable, CLARITY
can be used by companies of all
sectors and sizes to safeguard
reputation, improve performance
and earn stakeholder trust.
 Labor rights violations Unsafe, unsanitary
working conditions

Excessive ADDRESS Forced labor &

working hours
KEY TYPES OF modern slavery

SOCIAL
Poverty wages
RISK Child labor

Intimidation Discrimination
& harassment & sexism

ISO 20400,
ISO 26000
& CAP 26000
ISO 20400 and ISO 26000 are
international sustainability
standards. ISO 20400 lays out
guidelines for sustainable socially,
environmentally and economically
sustainable procurement. ISO 26000
outlines principles for corporate
social responsibility. Audits to these
standards enable organizations
to evaluate and improve their
social and environmental impacts.
Based on ISO 26000, CAP 26000
is a methodology developed by
Bureau Veritas Certification for
measuring CSR performance.

SECTOR-
SPECIFIC
AUDITS SA 8000
Certain sectors face particularly SA 8000 is a leading certifiable
high levels of social risk. Bureau international standard for ethical
Veritas offers a wide range of audit labor practices. It covers eight
services to help players in the metal key types of social risk: child
& minerals (e.g. RMI, ASI, RJC), labor, forced labor, health &
pharmaceutical (e.g. PSCI, EXCiPACT, safety, freedom of association
COSMOS), electronics (e.g. RBA, and collective bargaining rights,
JAC), food (e.g. SMETA AIM Progress) discrimination, disciplinary practices,
and other “high-risk” markets go working hours and remuneration.
above and beyond in achieving and It is anchored in a management
demonstrating responsible sourcing system that drives continuous
and business practices. improvement in these areas.
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YOUR TRUSTED
SOCIAL AUDIT
PARTNER
Bureau Veritas is a Business to Business to
Society company, committed to transforming
the world we in. A world leader in testing,
inspection and certification, we partner with
clients across all industries to meet their quality,
health & safety, environmental protection,
enterprise risk and social responsibility goals,
and achieve continuous improvement.

GLOBAL LEADER
Proven track record performing
audits against major social
sustainability standards

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
A rigorous, technologically advanced

KEY ADVANTAGES approach to audit scheduling and

reporting and KPI monitoring

OF SOCIAL AUDITS
SPECIALIZED AUDITORS
Protect reputation

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

Respond to growing consumer A global team of auditors with sector-

and investor demand for social specific experience and expertise
accountability

 Supply chain visibility

Understand your supply chain
WORLDWIDE NETWORK
and identify areas of risk Presence in 140 countries
 Compliance
Ensure compliance with regulations,
market and NGO standards and 3,000+
contractual obligations
SMETA audits performed yearly
 Continual improvement
Measure performance and
track improvement

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

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