Social responsibility factory audit: officially known as social responsibility audit, social responsibility audit, social responsibility factory assessment, etc. It is further divided into corporate social responsibility standard certification and customer-side standard audit. This "factory audit" is mainly implemented in two ways. Such standards mainly include SA8000, ICTI (toy industry), EICC (electronic industry), WRAP (clothing, footwear and hat industry) in the United States, BSCI (all industries) in continental Europe, ICS (retail industry) in France, and ETI in the United Kingdom. (all industries) etc.

1 Standard Audit

Social responsibility standard certification (SA8000) refers to the activity in which the corporate social responsibility system developer authorizes some neutral third-party organizations to review whether the enterprises that apply for passing a certain standard can meet the specified standards. It is the purchaser that requires Chinese enterprises to pass certain international, regional or industry "social responsibility" standard certification and obtain qualification certificates as a basis for purchasing or placing orders.

2 standard

Child Labor: Businesses must not support the use of child labor. The International Accreditation Agency (SAI), Social Accountability International, defines child labor as "all employees under the age of 16, unless local laws limit the minimum working age."

Forced labor: Enterprises cannot force employees to labor.

Health and Safety: Businesses must provide their employees with a safe and healthy work environment.

Freedom of Association and Right to Collective Bargaining: Companies must respect the right of employees to freely form and join trade unions for collective bargaining.

Industry Discrimination: Companies must not implement or support policies related to employment, salary levels, vocational training, job promotion, termination of labor contracts, and retirement

Discrimination based on race, social class, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, union membership, political affiliation or age.

Disciplinary Measures: Businesses shall not practice or support the use of corporal punishment, mental or physical coercion, and verbal assaults.

Working hours: Enterprises must comply with applicable laws and industry norms on working and resting hours.

Salary level: The company must ensure that employees are paid a standard working week salary in accordance with basic statutory or industry standards.

Management Systems: Upper management must develop corporate policies for social responsibility and labor rights, ensure compliance with all relevant national standards and compliance with other applicable laws.

3 programs

1. Pre-factory audit meeting: mainly introduce the purpose, procedure, required time and precautions of the factory audit.

2. Factory inspection process: check data, visit all areas of the factory and interview employees and managers.

3. Summary meeting: Summarize the problems found in the factory inspection and confirm the time and plan for improvement.

4 role

1. Reduce the second-party audit of suppliers by foreign customers and save costs;

2. Comply with local regulations to a greater extent;

3. Build international credibility;

4. Enable consumers to establish positive emotions about the product;

5. Enable partners to establish long-term confidence in the enterprise.

5 Content

The contents of the social responsibility audit are generally divided into the following points:

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6 Checklist

Payroll (Past Twelve Months)

Personnel roster and employee personal files

Labor Contract

Social Security Receipts, Rosters and Eligibility Documents, etc.

Business license

Fire inspection report or certificate of compliance

Fire drill records, emergency evacuation plans and work injury records, etc.

Environmental certification documents

Factory regulations or employee handbook

Government documents on local minimum wage regulations

Equipment safety license (such as elevator use license, kitchen hygiene license, etc.)

Special workers are employed (such as elevator workers, electricians, kitchen workers, etc.)

Approval of the local labor bureau on extending overtime

Juvenile workers physical examination and labor bureau registration records

Factory floor plan

Other documents (depending on the audit situation)

7 Focus

1. The legitimacy of the company: The guest can verify whether the company is legal and safe by checking the company's business license, tax registration certificate, fire escape map and other document data.

2. Child labor and underage labor: The guest absolutely prohibits the company from employing child labor under the age of 16, and can accept the employment of underage laborers over the age of 16 but under the age of 18, but must have the approval of the government department and take practical actions to ensure that underage workers are employed. Physical and mental health.

3. Discrimination: The client does not allow the company to discriminate in terms of gender, race, age, belief, etc. when hiring and promoting employees. The factory inspector will generally check the personnel files of all incumbents and the personnel files and labor contracts of the last 6 months.

4. Working hours: The company must ensure workers' rest time according to local laws and regulations, at least one day off per week, and no more than 60 hours of work per week.

5. Labor remuneration: For regular overtime and statutory holidays, employees shall be paid according to the rate prescribed by local laws, and the monthly salary shall not be lower than the local minimum wage. Customers generally check the employee attendance and salary payment records for the last 3 months or 12 months.

6. Disciplinary measures: The guests do not accept any fines, beatings and scoldings imposed by the company on employees, and do not accept forced labor by the company.

7. Health and safety: The company must provide a healthy and safe workplace and have necessary environmental protection measures and related licenses. Employees in special occupations must have corresponding operating certificates.

8. Anti-terrorism: There should be not only corresponding procedures for personnel exchanges and the circulation of goods, but also corresponding operation records. For the physical security of the company, the needle control management must keep records according to the requirements of the guests.

8 Benefits

1. Reduce the second-party audit of suppliers by foreign customers and save costs;

2. Comply with local regulations to a greater extent;

3. Build international credibility;

4. Enable consumers to establish positive emotions about the product;

5. Enable partners to establish long-term confidence in the enterprise.