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Glossary

SMETA Audit

Sedex

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Overview

Sedex is a membership organisation that provides an online platform for companies to manage and improve working conditions in their global supply chains.

Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) is Sedex’s social auditing standard, which businesses can use to assess a supplier’s working conditions, across the areas of labour, health and safety, environment and business ethics, to improve performance and signal zero tolerance of human rights abuses such as child and forced labour.

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About

Name
SMETA Audit
Owner(s)
Sedex
First Published
2004
Licensing Terms
Open Access
Number of Participants
More than 500
Applicable Size of Entity
Agnostic/All

Governance

Scheme Holder Type
Industry Organisation – An organisation, association or membership representing and with a mandate for improving the services provided by an industry, its public standing, and including the industry’s sustainability performance.
Core Focus
Operating standard – A standard that sets expectations for the sustainability performance of a standard-holding organisation’s own operations
Claim Type
Business practice performance