Verité Social and

Environmental Monitoring Program

Verité social and environmental auditing programs are known for the high credibility of our findings and the value of our recommendations. Confidential worker interviewing and other methods are key to the quality of the Verité process and to identifying areas of risk and opportunities for performance improvement. Information from management interviews, document review, and visual inspection are verified against worker interviews.  Workers’ information enables auditors to understand conditions on the factory floor from a key stakeholder perspective often missing in factory assessments.  In Verité’s analysis, almost 50% of the verifying data needed to confirm compliance with company CSR standards is derived from worker discussions.

The core components of our auditing approach:

• Best-in-class auditing teams
• Prioritization towards the high risk suppliers and most significant issues
• Auditing in context, accounting for regional, cultural, socio-economic and political environments and other challenges
• Identifying the underlying root-causes of problems surfaced
• State of the art worker interviewing techniques
• Consistent, accurate, and straightforward reporting
• Corrective and preventative action planning based on a continuous performance improvement model

Verité offers a range of CSR auditing services to meet a client’s specific goals:

• Verité Social Audit
• Verité Integrated Social and Environmental Audit
• Verité Risk Assessment Audit
• 3rd Party Verification Audit
• Gap Assessments
• Post-Auditing Monitoring - Verité Remediation Check-Up
• Training Audits
• Worker Interviews
• Management Systems Audits
• Post-Auditing Performance Assessment and Planning – SeeSupplier Training Programs

Verité audits client facilities against our best practice model and also audits against additional requested codes, client standards and processes. Our professionals are teams are qualified under certifications systems to provide services to perform services that are recognized and endorsed by Verité clients and certifying bodies.

For specific information, including quotes for our auditing services, please contact Supplier Programs Director Robin Jaffin by email (rjaffin@verite.org) or phone at 413.253.9227.