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What is SMETA?
SMETA, powered by Sedex, is the world’s most widely used social audit. It helps you understand the standards of labour, health and safety, environmental performance, and ethics within your own operations or at a supplier site.
The SMETA audit is designed to help protect workers from unsafe conditions, overwork, discrimination, low pay, and forced labour.
Delivered by TÜV SÜD which is an Affiliate Audit Company (AAC) of Sedex and is authorised to conduct SMETA and Service Providers With a Distributed Workforce (SP DW) audits, you or your supplier is provided with a Corrective Action Plan to help improve performance in these areas.
Why SMETA is important
SMETA provides a framework for organisations to enhance their sustainable business practices, improve supply chain transparency, and achieve business growth. Organisations use SMETA to identify good practices in employment conditions. SMETA also demonstrates your organisation's commitment to ethical trading. You can legally claim your products are 'fair trade,' something increasingly valued by consumers. Demonstrating your ethical stance through a SEDEX audit will gain you a competitive edge.
How TÜV SÜD can help you with SMETA
TÜV SÜD is authorised to conduct both SMETA audits and Sedex Virtual Assessments. We provide honest and high-quality SEDEX audits to help you build sustainable supply chains. We conduct both the SMETA-2 pillar and SMETA-4 pillar audits.
A SMETA 2-Pillar audit comprises:
- Labour standards
- Health and safety
- Additional elements
- Universal rights covering UNGP
- Management systems
- Entitlement to work
- Subcontracting and homeworking
- Shortened environment assessment
Additionally, a SMETA 4-Pillar audit includes:
- Environment (extended) – this replaces the Environment (shortened) section detailed above
- Business ethics
