SEDEX is a non-profit organization based in London, UK. Companies from anywhere in the world can apply for membership. Many retailers, supermarkets, brands, suppliers and other organizations require farms, factories and manufacturers they work with to undergo an ETHICAL SMETA (SEDEX Member Audit) to ensure that their operations meet the requirements of the relevant ethical standards. Audit results can be recognized by all SEDEX members and shared by them, so suppliers accepting SEDEX factory inspection can save a lot of repeated audit from customers.
Sedex stands for Supplier Ethical Data Exchange. It is a human rights factory inspection certification in The UK, which is generally required by British customers before placing orders. Support buyers: Mostly UK retailers such as Tesco, Tesco, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's, The Body Shop, Waitrose, etc. Many Chinese enterprises also began to implement SEDEX certification for their suppliers, and the certification content includes working hours and wages, working environment and so on. Scope of application: all industries.
What does Sedex factory audit agency have? What are the differences between Sedex4P and 2P?
Sedex factory inspection needs to be clear is 4P or 2P; Sedex recognized fair companies are: SGS, BV, ITS, TUV, UL, ALGI and so on. We currently have good cooperation with SGS, ITS, BV. Audit found nonconformity, such as the lack of catering service license, by submitting the rectification picture to the auditor, the auditor accepted, you can close the nonconformity. On CAP, such nonconformities are marked as "D". Follow-up: Non-conformities found in audit, such as insufficient wage payment, must be followed up on site for a second time, and such non-conformities will be marked as "F". In addition to the audit content and price, the most important differences are: Customers who receive sedex4P reports do not accept Sedex2P reports, and those who receive Sedex2P reports also accept Sedex4P reports. Brands such as Nestle, M&S and Swarovski only accept 4PS reports.
What are the basic regulations of Sedex factory audit? What does it include?
SEDEX Basic regulations
1. Forced Labour shall be prohibited
1.1 Compulsory Labour, incarcerated Labour and unwilling prisoner Labour are prohibited.
1.2 Employees shall not be required to pay a deposit or surrender their identity documents to the employer and are free to leave their employer after giving reasonable advance notice.
2. Freedom of association and workers' right to collective bargaining
2.1 All employees without exception shall have the right to join or form a union of their own choice and the right to engage in collective bargaining.
2.2 Employers should adopt an open attitude towards the actions of trade unions and their organizational activities.
2.3 There shall be no discrimination against employee representatives who may use their workplace to perform their employee representative functions. 2.4 Where the right to free association and collective bargaining is restricted by law, employers shall promote and not prevent the establishment of similar forms of independent and free association and collective bargaining.
3. Healthy, safe and hygienic working environment
3.1 A safe and healthy working environment shall be provided, taking into account the general knowledge of the trade and any particular hazards. Appropriate measures shall be taken to prevent all kinds of accidents and incidents damaging to health arising from, related to or occurring at work. Reduce the risks inherent in the work environment as realistically as possible.
3.2 Employees shall receive regular and documented health and safety training, which is repeated for new and changing employees.
3.3 Employees shall be provided with clean toilet facilities, potable water and, where possible, sanitary facilities for food storage.
3.4 The accommodation provided shall be clean, safe and meet the basic needs of employees.
3.5 Companies adopting this code shall appoint a senior management representative responsible for health and safety.
4. Use of children in work is prohibited
4.1 No more children should be recruited to work.
4.2 All companies shall develop or participate in and fund policies and programs that enable any child found to be engaged in child Labour to receive quality education until it is no longer a child. The definition of children and child work is given in the appendix. 4.3 Children and young persons under the age of 18 shall not be employed to work at night or in dangerous conditions.
4.4 These policies and procedures must be consistent with the relevant ILO standard provisions.
A living wage
5.1 The wages and benefits paid for each standard wage week shall at least meet the national legal standards or industry standards, whichever is higher. In all cases, wages paid should always be sufficient to meet basic needs and provide some discretionary income.
5.2 All employees shall be provided with written, easily understood information about the conditions of employment relating to wages before they start work and shall be provided with details of wages for the period covered at each payment.
5.3 Deduction of wages shall not be allowed as a disciplinary measure without the consent of the employee, nor shall any other deduction be made from wages other than those prescribed by national law. All disciplinary actions must be documented.
6. Working hours: in accordance with the law
6.1 Working hours must comply with national laws and standards prescribed by the industry, subject to strong protection of employees.
6.2 Under no circumstances shall employees be required to regularly work more than 48 hours per week on an average basis
Take at least one day off in seven days. Overtime must be voluntary and cannot exceed 12 hours per week. Frequent overtime cannot be required and must be compensated in accordance with the award pay scale.
7. Prohibition of discrimination
7.1 No one shall be discriminated against in hiring, compensation, training, promotion, dismissal or retirement on the basis of race, social status, national origin, belief, age, disability, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, affiliation to a trade union or political party.
8. Formal employment relationship
8.1 To the extent possible, the work to be performed must be based on a formally recognized employment relationship established in accordance with national laws and regulations.
8.2 Preferences for employees protected by Labour or social security laws and regulations and based on formal employment relationships cannot be eliminated through the use of Labour contracts, subcontracts or work-from-home arrangements, or through apprenticeship programmes that do not provide genuine skills or formal employment, Nor can any such preferential treatment be eliminated through the excessive use of fixed-term employment contracts.
9. Ill-treatment or corporal punishment or abuse of employees is prohibited
9.1 Physical abuse or corporal punishment, or threats of physical abuse, sexual harassment or other harassment, and harsh language or other forms of intimidation are prohibited.
What are the SEDEX membership criteria? What are the membership and classification of SEDEX?
SEDEX membership Guidelines SEDEX is a membership based organization and each member agrees to abide by a common code of conduct. The main points of the guidelines are as follows:
1. All members agree to work towards the realization of the vision.
2. All members can use the corresponding functions of Sedex system according to their membership types.
3. All members promise to provide data to Sedex system with all their heart and regularly update it.
4. Members will be able to use and evaluate data, but only for the sole purpose of assessing compliance with their Labour and other ethical standards.
5. Members shall treat information downloaded from the Website as confidential information.
6. Companies can only enter data for use at the sites they own.
7. All members may run for election to the Board of Directors or join working groups.
SEDEX membership, classification
SEDEX membership is open to anyone who wishes to use the information exchange system to improve labor standards at their manufacturing sites or those of their suppliers.
The Board of Directors shall determine the class of members and classify them as Class A members, Class AB members or Class B members based on the following specific criteria. When the applicant is a member of a group of companies, only one company in the group (appointed by the parent company of the group) is eligible to join as a member, and the member company will represent all the companies in the group and pay the corresponding fees.
Class A member: any individual who is not A supplier (but has A trading relationship with A supplier) and is willing to access and analyze data through information exchange.
AB member: any supplier; Established a trade relationship with a supplier; Willingness to acquire and analyze data through information exchange; An individual who is willing to upload data to an information exchange system.
Class B member: any is a supplier; An individual who is willing to upload data to an information exchange system.
How to pass SEDEX certification? SEDEX certification review process guidance
SEDEX certification refers to the supplier business ethics information communication certification, SEDEX is a set of databases to help companies store information on labor standards in their business areas, and customers can share this information. Today, SEDEX is favored by many manufacturers and large retailers. If an enterprise passes the SEDEX certification, it shows that it abides by business ethics, so that customers will have more trust in the enterprise and be more assured to cooperate with it. I will also look for enterprises certified by SEDEX to place orders. Secondly, employees can work in a good environment and their wages are considerable. Such a factory is worthy of trust from customers. Employees can work well, create great benefits for the enterprise, and produce high-quality products.
The SEDEX certification audit process is as follows:
1. Initial meeting: introduce the purpose, time arrangement and operation method of audit, list the documents needed, introduce the details of on-site audit and employee interview, and answer the questions of factory representatives.
2, site audit: auditors on the site of fire facilities, machinery and equipment maintenance, ventilation and lighting work area, environmental protection work and so on a series of inspection, to ensure that the project are in line with the audit standards of the factory. 3, document audit: auditors in accordance with the requirements of the factory to check the factory's documents, mainly including employees' wages and hours records, employee information, and other production records, all documents required to save the most recent 12 months, the most recent 3 months must meet the requirements.
3. Employee interview: The list of employees interviewed is extracted from the site and personnel data, mainly favoritized to some younger and honest employees. Employee interview is conducted independently, and the representative of the factory is not allowed to intervene.
4. Audit summary meeting: The auditor issues a temporary audit report to summarize the existing problems and areas for improvement in the factory, and may follow up the audit if necessary, depending on the seriousness of the problem.
What is the budget for SEDEX certification? How long is the validity period?
SEDEX certification is accepted by many well-known brands, especially in the beginning of July 1, 2017, Wal-mart and Disney also accept SEDEX certification report, so many processing plants want to be certified according to SEDEX, so how much budget do YOU need for SEDEX certification? Several aspects are given respectively:
1, audit fee: it is the cost of payment to the third-party certification organization, more than 10,000 to 30,000 yuan. The actual cost is determined by three factors.
(1) the total number of processing plants to participate in the factory inspection, (such as: 1-100 people; 101-500; 501-1000; 1001 -- 2000, etc.), the approval fees are different for different levels of total number;
(2) Whether the processing plant does SEDEX 2pilla or SEDEX 4pilla, the costs of 2P and 4P are different. Due to the different audit personnel, the audit fee of 4P is higher than that of 2P;
(3) The processing plant chooses the approval organization, the approval organization is not the same, the approval cost is different.
2. Registration fee: Enter the Sedex official website to fill in the basic information of the processing plant, and then apply for registration. The current registration fee is 1200RMB/ year. (The key to applying for registration is to send the Sedex announcement report of the processing plant in the middle and later period, so that customers can search the processing plant on the official website and master the certification status of the processing plant. If the customer does not provide to send reports, processing plants can not apply for registration, immediately after approval will be announced to report to customers.
3, processing plant on the spot rectification fee: such as fire door, fire hydrant, fire extinguisher, alarm bell, safety exit lights, emergency lights, signs, safety exit these. Fire equipment if the processing plant has long, then you need to check whether everything can be normal application, the total number is enough, the specifications are not right. The actual cost of rectification depends on the specific situation of the processing plant.
4, tutorial fees: at this stage, about 98% of our country's processing plants do factory audit certification is to consult and guide the factory, if the processing plant itself to do most do not pass, there are two reasons, a processing plant do not understand the specification is not clear how to prepare appropriate documentation materials in advance, carry out staff skills training and on-the-spot improvement; The second processing plant does not have the approval organization's human network. Therefore, it is proposed that processing plants do SEDEX certification must be asked to consult professional technical guidance enterprises.
How long is the validity period of SEDEX certification?
Edex approval does not show qualification certificate, only audit report, by the customer decision approval is based on. If successfully passed, Sedex certification is valid for one year; If there are serious problems without approval, it is usually followed up after 3 and 6 months; A small number were followed up six or six months later; Details will depend on the Sedex announcement.
What are the differences between Sedex and BSCI? What's the difference?
Both Sedex certification and BSCI certification are for the approval of suppliers at the level of corporate social responsibility, so what is the difference between the two? BSCI certification BSCI certification is to advocate the business community to follow the corporate social responsibility institutions of the BSCI organization members of the world's suppliers to carry out corporate social responsibility approval, BSCI factory inspection includes: Follow laws and regulations, freedom of association and the right of group negotiation and control, strictly prohibit discrimination, compensation, working hours, site safety at work, strictly prohibit the use of child labor, strictly prohibit forced labor, natural environment and safety problems. BSCI currently has more than 1000 members from 11 countries, mostly European vendors and suppliers, who actively promote their suppliers around the world to adopt BSCI certification to improve their human rights situation. SEDEX certification SEDEX certification is also called ETI factory audit or SMETA factory audit, SEDEX factory audit is attributed to the level of corporate social responsibility factory audit, and the general corporate social responsibility factory audit has many of the same areas, the key is to supply
Safety, health and natural environment; However, it is also its own special areas, such as the regulation of a longer work week. At present, the United States and other countries have stipulated that their subordinate processing plants must be inspected according to SEDEX, and the key team members of SEDEX include TESCO(TESCO), P&G(Procter & Gamble), ARGOS, BBC, M&S(M&S) and so on.
Differences between the two
BSCI certification is mainly used for French-led European customers, and SEDEX certification is mainly used for American-led European customers, these two are member system, and some member customers are mutually identified, in other words, have done a BSCI factory audit or SEDEX factory audit, some BSCI or SEDEX members are identified. In addition, some customers are members of both organizations.
Why does the factory need to do SEDEX certification? What are the benefits of seDEX certification?
At this stage, many factories face several factory inspection and approval a year, and each factory inspection must be exhausted to prepare in advance, not only spending a lot of assets, but also consuming a lot of labor services. Doing SEDEX certification is a very good choice. SEDEX is a non-profit VIP membership organization with its head office in London and focuses on promoting social and ethical trade purchases around the world. It was founded in 2001 and now has more than 50,000 VIP members in more than 150 countries all over the world. Companies with all addresses around the world can apply for VIP membership. SEDEX has been the favor of many large and medium-sized sellers and manufacturers, many sellers, shopping malls, well-known brands, distributors and other institutions have stipulated that the collaboration with the large farms, factories and manufacturers to sign up for SEDEX factory approval, in order to ensure that their operations in line with the relevant social ethics regulations, The approval results can be recognized by all SEDEXvip members and shared resources by them, so the acceptance of SEDEX factory inspection by dealers can save a lot of repeated approval from customers. At present, well-known brands in the United States and many European countries agree with the audit report of SEDEX.
The benefits of SEDEX certification are as follows:
1. SEDEX certification guidance report, reduce the COC factory inspection, save the factory working time and cost costs at all levels, and remove the usual corporate social responsibility assessment, and save the approval cost.
2. Through SEDEX certification, factory quality, natural environment and corporate social responsibility intelligent management system will be comprehensively sorted and improved;
3. Consider the mandatory requirements of customers and start the cooperation with European customers, attracting potential users and improving the competitiveness of the company;
4. Improve the company's market competitiveness, improve its competitiveness in Europe, implement customer regulations and attract potential customers;
5.SEDEX certification guidance can improve the cohesion of the team, improve the association with the association and relevant stakeholders;
6. Through the guidance of SEDEX certification, in line with the international development trend, the pursuit of perfection of the company's continuous operation, to obtain long-term cooperation with customers;
7. Formulate cost-effective preventive measures for safety accidents and damages, reduce superficial risks, control costs and reduce the occurrence of safety production accidents, and reduce the risk to the minimum;
8. Attach importance to the lives of employees, improve the brand image of the enterprise, make employees have a sense of belonging, promote the harmony of intermediate economy, improve the technical training of employees, so as to improve the productivity of employees;
9. The exposure to risk sources at work can be alleviated enough to ensure the physical and mental health and safety of the office environment;
10. Improve the current corporate social responsibility management methods, enhance the economic benefits of production and manufacturing under the guidance of SEDEX certification, and promote the management ability of leading cadres and dealers of enterprises.
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