There is increasing pressure from consumers and, consequently, from supermarkets, NGOs, service providers and transnational corporations concerned about reputation management, to improve company labour policy and practice, particularly where goods are imported.
Ethical auditing is a process which measures the internal and external consistency of an organisation´s values base. Its objectives are two-fold: it is intended for accountability and transparency towards stakeholders, and for internal control, to meet the ethical objectives of the organisation.
This course is aimed at all supplier auditors, retailers, purchasers, co-packers, importers, commercial auditors, smallholders, trade unions and non-governmental organisations, promoting and improving the implementation of codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions.
Pre-audit process:
The social audit
"The reasons for examining the state of a company’s ethics include external societal pressures, risk management, stakeholder obligations, and identifying a baseline to measure future improvements. In some cases, companies are driven to it by a gross failure in ethics, which may have resulted in costly legal action or stricter government regulation. More often companies choose to do it simply because it is right, it is important, and it is likely to bring business benefits."
Robert Gaze – Event Director
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