Sedex
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.
Standards and Regulations can apply to specific materials. Below are all the materials the SMETA Audit applies or could be applied to.