SEDEX (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) What is Sedex?

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1 Sedex Introduction

2 SEDEX (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) What is Sedex?

3 Sedex- Global Membership Data taken from Sedex Annual Review

4 Sedex / AIM-PROGRESS Members

5 Why Sedex? 1.Reduce Duplication and audit fatigue 2. Reduce duplicative costs 3. Align standards and share best practices

6 Why Sedex? 2. Collaboration

7 Why Sedex? 3. Supplier-led

8 Why Sedex? 4. Secure database

9 Overview of Sedex Sedex does not X Pass Fail Certify

10 What do you need to do? Getting Started

11 Getting Started with Sedex Member SAQ AB B Register On Sedex Create your site of employment Completes your SAQ Add your customers Grants Access to Site Data

12 Sedex Membership types Member A Functionality: Views others data Functionality: Uploads own data AND views others data B Functionality: Uploads own data

13 Site of employments What is a Site of employment? Office / warehouse / factory owned by your company Your Site of Employment will determine your Sector Profile: Sedex Sector Profiles Manufacturing Agriculture (Big) Service Providers Intermediaries Agriculture (Small)

14 The SEDEX Self-Assessment Questionnaire Self Assessment Questionnaire Labour Standards Health & Safety Environment Business Ethics

15 Completing the Questionnaire - Supplier Workbook Check Sedex Supplier Workbook for more guidance

16 What do you need to do? Ethical Audits

17 Next Steps: Ethical Audits on Sedex Audit Your customer will confirm an audit is required Audit is scheduled & completed offline Audit report is uploaded to Sedex by your auditor Submit your corrective actions to the auditor to verify Your auditor will confirm if the issue has resolved

18 Next Steps: Ethical Audits on Sedex Sedex is a tool for storing and analysing data Any auditor can upload audits onto Sedex Any audit can be uploaded onto the Sedex system Requirements and frequencies will be determined by the customer

19 SMETA- SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit

20 Audit Issues Audit issues can be both positive and negative Audit issues will be categorised as: Good Example (GE) Observation (Obs) Non-Compliance (NC) Non-compliances: you will need to add a corrective action for the auditor to verify

21 Audit Issues closing down non-compliances Audit Issue Uploaded by the auditor You upload your corrective action plan Submit this corrective action plan to the auditor Auditor will review the information Verify the issue is closed

22 Summary of Issue Status Site Review: Issue has not yet been submitted to auditor for review or needs to be re-submitted. Auditor Review: The site is waiting for the auditor to review the evidence and verify the corrective action. Progress Made: The auditor acknowledges the site is working towards resolution but requires further Corrective Actions. Actions Rejected:The Corrective Actions are not satisfactory. Verified: The auditor is satisfied with the Corrective Actions. This Completes and closes the issue.

23 Data from SEDEX Get data for East Africa, this is for South Africa Top 5 most frequent Non-Compliances in Health & Safety Russia Non Compliance Frequency Rate % HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT 1547 CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT 1464 MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 1318 WORKER HEALTH/FIRST AID/ACCIDENTS 1111 FIRE SAFETY 930 CHEMICALS 766 BUILDING/SITE MAINTENANCE 636 HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING 635 INAPPROPRIATE DEDUCTIONS 557 ACCURATE/UNDERSTANDABLE CONTRACTS AND PAYSLIPS 542 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT/CLOTHING 507 BENEFITS INCLUDING INSURANCE 507

24 Data from SEDEX Get Data for East Africa, this is for South Africa Top 5 most frequent Non-Compliances in Health & Safety Russia Non Compliance Frequency Rate % HYGIENE FACILITIES 504 MACHINERY 471 LEVEL OF OVERTIME HOURS WORKED 449 RECORD KEEPING 436 LIVING CONDITIONS 431 DISCRIMINATION POLICY 255 RIGHT TO WORK 238 PAYMENT OF MINIMUM/INDUSTRY WAGES 197 LEAVE / HOLIDAY ENTITLEMENT 193 ACCOMMODATION FIRE SAFETY 155 PREMIUM RATE FOR OVERTIME 122 HARSH TREATMENT, HARASSMENT OR THREAT OF ABUSE 110

25 Questions?

26 Guidance and Support Sedex Guidance Packs Registration Guidance: Account Set Up: Audit upload: Telephone and support: UK Helpdesk tel. +44 (0)