Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) Best Practice Guidance

Below are some typical Audit Timetables which show how this might work in practice:
A5.1.3. Example Programme for 1 Audit Day Ethical Trade Audit
One auditor over one day – example 50 workers:
09:00 Opening meeting (management team including Health & Safety, environmental, union and HR
representatives).
09:30 Site Tour (Health & Safety rep. and environmental rep. to be available); Health & Safety, including
selection of six employees for interviews.
10:30 Employee interviews (six interviews). Also including union representative interview.
12:30 HR documentation (handbooks / employee files / payroll / time records) including paperwork (when
authorised) of those individuals interviewed.
13:00 Lunch.
13:30 Further review of payroll / time / employee files if required.
15:15 Health & Safety documentation and group interview (one group of four people).
16:00 Auditors prepare CAP report for closing meeting.
16:30 Closing meeting with management team: raise findings, best practice and issues with management.
17:00 Finish.
Example Programme for 2 Audit Day Ethical Trade Audit
Two auditors over one day – example 500 workers:
SMETA Best Practice Guidance (4-Pillar Version 4.0, May 2012)
9:00 Opening meeting (management team including Health & Safety, environmental, union and HR
representatives).
9:30 Site tour (Health & Safety rep. and environmental rep. to be available) Health & Safety, including
selection of employees for interviews. Both auditors.
10:35 Individual employee interviews (five total, fifteen minutes each), including one union representative
interview of thirty minutes. Both auditors to conduct interviews according to skill set.
12:00 Both auditors. HR documentation (handbooks / employee files / payroll / time records) including
paperwork (when authorised) of those individuals interviewed. Both auditors, six records each, 12 total.
12:45 Lunch.
13:15 Group employee interviews and remaining individual interview split between auditors as per skill set.
15:30 Health & Safety documentation and further tour / interviews if required. One auditor for
documentation, one for interviews, depending on skill set.
16:30 Auditors to prepare CAP report for closing meeting. Both auditors.
17:00 Closing meeting with management. Both auditors and management: raise findings, best practice
and issues with management.
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