Services – Risk Management
Second and Third Party Audits
Other Risk Management Services
We also train auditors and standards schemes on audits and auditing, so we are ideally placed to understand what is required from the audit process, directly carry out second and third-party audits, and to help build capacity and understanding in your teams.
The TDi audit and assessment process
Needs analysis
We help with audit preparation and prioritisation as well as helping you understand your specific challenges and requirements.
Audit delivery
We conduct audits and deliver audit reports that capture the information you need to be confident in the performance of your suppliers.
Monitoring
We conduct follow up engagements to evaluate supplier progress towards implementing improvement actions identified during audits.
Supplier engagement
We prioritise key suppliers for engagement, training and capacity-building based on risk, dependency and influence.
Data
We develop and administer tools to track and manage your audit programme and its performance, including dashboards, aggregated data, and ongoing risk screening.
Second Party Audits and Assessments
As experienced second-party auditors, TDi conducts audits on behalf of our clients to evaluate the performance, compliance, and quality of their suppliers, partners, or service providers. This allows you to gain complete visibility into your suppliers’ practices worldwide. Our expert teams develop a supplier audit programme to suit your requirements and combine it with our risk data and analysis, so you get a holistic risk-based audit across your most sensitive supply chain operations.
We carry out audits and assessments against customer-specific requirements, supplier codes of conduct, and sustainability standards and frameworks such as:
- Subcontractor audits
- International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards
- Customer-specific requirements and supplier codes of conduct
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Materials from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (CAHRAs)
Third Party Audits
TDi Sustainability is an approved auditor against a variety of key sustainability, traceability, chain of custody and responsible sourcing standards for industry programmes and trusted partners, as well as sustainability standards, assurance schemes and frameworks.
TDi is an approved auditor for:
- The Copper Mark
- The Nickel Mark
- The Zinc Mark
- The Molybdenum Mark
- RECOSI Coal Programme (Bettercoal)
- RMI Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) and Downstream Assessment Programme (DAP)
- London Metal Exchange Track A and Track B
- EO100™ Standard for Responsible Energy Development
- Mining Association of Canada (MAC) TSM Protocols
Third Party Assessments
Our auditors have expertise in the regulations of the state/province/country in which they are auditing, experience conducting compliance audits in country (including DRC, India, and China) and in the local language.
TDi has conducted assessments against:
- IFC Performance Standards
- UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
- IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining
- World Gold Council Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs)
- Fairmined
- ITSCI Programme for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
- Responsible Cobalt Initiative
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Materials from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (CAHRAs)
- Responsible Jewellery Council certification
Every member of our audit team has between 10-25 years of hands-on audit experience
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