Retailers, brands and customers are increasingly concerned that their goods are manufactured in a way that ensures fair treatment for all employees involved in their production supply chain. It is important to understand your suppliers:

• Labor standards
• Health and safety
• Environmental impact
• Business ethics

Understanding your suppliers protects your brand and reputation and helps you mitigate risks. It is also an effective component in strengthening your business’s resilience.

This webinar will provide a brief overview of social audit options, their drivers, and the sensitive challenges of social audits in the US. 

 Objectives

• Understand what is a social audit
• Importance of social audit to your business
• Learn the different types of social audits and what each covers
• Basic steps and challenges for a site towards conducting a social audit, including SMETA

Agenda

• Supply chain’s role in corporate social responsibility
• Social audits types and their drivers
• Benefits of social audits
• Basic steps and challenges to conducting a social audit
• Q&A

Target Audience: Individuals (Human resource team, Health & Safety, and Environmental Management) responsible for implementing social compliance audit/customer code of conduct / corporate social responsibility.

Language: English
Cost: No Charge

Can't make a live session? Register now and receive a complimentary recording after the live event. For further information, please contact: KN.NAM.Marketing@sgs.com

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