Audit Standards
ISO9000
What is Checked During a Factory Audit?
Our auditors follow the globally recognized ISO 9000: 2008 Standard for Quality Management Systems, designed by international experts to verify all aspects of your supplier’s facilities and processes including credentials, equipment and workflow.
ISO 9001: 2008 Audit Criteria
Production scope: Supplier sets and meets realistic lead time estimates incorporating production, packing, etc.
Control of records: Ability to produce a document upon request, by way of an efficient organizational system.
Quality policy: Existence of an internal quality assurance system supervised by specialized personnel.
Internal communication: Regular coordination of personnel from all departments regarding progress as a whole.
Management Review: Assessment of management's role in implementing and maintaining the required quality policy.
Human resource management: Competence, training, and awareness of human resource issues.
Work environment: Maintenance of a safe, sanitary and efficient production facility.
Purchasing: Maintenance of an organized network of reliable raw material and component suppliers.
Control of nonconforming product: Isolation and disposal of units that do not conform to the client’s specifications.
SA8000
Social Accountability Standards
SA 8000, which is the first standard governing employees' working condition under Social Accountability International (SAI), provides a framework for independent assessment by a third party certification body, as in the cases of ISO 9000 quality management system and ISO 14000 environmental management system.
It is thus our great concern to refer to SA 8000 set of social accountability standards and guidance document to achieve your Factory Assessment requirements.
Child labour: Companies may not support the use of child labor. The Social Accountability International (SAI) standard defines child labor as the work of "any person under 15 years of age, unless local minimum age law stipulates a higher age for work."
Forced Labor: Companies may not support the use of "forced labor."
Health and Safety: Companies must provide a safe and healthy working environment for their employees.
Freedom of Association and Right to collective Bargaining: Companies must respect the right of all employees to form and join trade unions of their choice and to bargain collectively.
Discrimination: Companies may not engage in or support discrimination in hiring, compensation, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement based on race, caste, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, union membership, or political affiliation.
Disciplinary practices: Companies may not engage in or support the use of corporal punishment, mental or physical coercion or verbal abuse.
Working hours: Companies must comply with applicable laws and industry standards on working hours.
Compensation: Companies must ensure that wages paid for a standard working week meet at least legal or industry minimum standards.
Management systems: Top management must define the company's policy for social accountability and labor conditions to ensure that it includes a commitment to conform to all requirements of this standard and national and other applicable laws.
