SMETA is the world’s most widely used audit. Businesses use SMETA to understand and make improvements to working conditions and environmental performance in their business and supply chain.
What is SMETA?
- SMETA is an audit, which helps you to understand standards of labour, health and safety, environmental performance, and ethics within your own operations or at a supplier site.
- Delivered by one of our approved auditor companies , you or your supplier is provided with a Corrective Action Plan to help improve performance in these areas.
- The SMETA audit is designed to help protect workers from unsafe conditions, overwork, discrimination, low pay, and forced labour.
Benefits of SMETA for your business
SMETA Audits have given thousands of businesses confidence that they are working with sustainable suppliers.
Increased visibility
Gain a greater understanding of the social and environmental performance of your business and suppliers
Prioritise high risks
Assess and monitor higher risk suppliers on their performance over time
Efficient supplier auditing
Data can be shared with multiple buyers, reducing the number of audits you’ll need to collect
Improve supplier performance
SMETA provides a Corrective Action Plan to help improve supplier performance and resolve issues found in the audit
Comply with legislation
SMETA audits facilitate compliance with existing and upcoming legislation
SMETA in numbers
60,000
+SMETA audits on the Sedex platform in 2023
115,000
Sites visited in 2024
180,000
SMETA non-complicances closed in 2024
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