SMETA

Item specifics

Audit Content:

(1) A SMETA audit was conducted which included some or all of Labour Standards, Health &

Safety, Environment and Business Ethics. The SMETA Best Practice Version 6.1 (March 2019)

was applied. The scope of workers included all types at the site e.g. direct employees,

agency workers, workers employed by service providers and workers provided by other

contractors. Any deviations from the SMETA Methodology are stated (with reasons for

deviation) in the SMETA Declaration.

(2) The audit scope was against the following reference documents

2-Pillar SMETA Audit

• ETI Base Code

• SMETA Additions

• Universal rights covering UNGP

• Management systems and code implementation,

• Responsible Recruitment

• Entitlement to Work & Immigration,

• Sub-Contracting and Home working,

4-Pillar SMETA

• 2-Pillar requirements plus

• Additional Pillar assessment of Environment

• Additional Pillar assessment of Business Ethics

• The Customer’s Supplier Code (Appendix 1)

(3) Where appropriate non-compliances were raised against the ETI code / SMETA Additions

& local law and recorded as non-compliances on both the audit report, CAPR and on

Sedex.

(4) Any Non-Compliance against customer code shall not be uploaded to Sedex. However,

in the CAPR these ‘Variances in compliance between ETI code / SMETA Additions/ local

law and customer code’ shall be noted in the observations section of the CAPR.