Fire Safety- strengthened requirements and checks around the area of fire safety.
Root Cause– new checks to define root causes.
Environment– additional questions on the monitoring of emissions and waste.
Modern day slavery requirements – additional questions on Modern Day Slavery Act requirements.
Living wage – additional questions to track the most commonly used living wage methodologies used.
Business Ethics – allows NCs to be raised.
Land rights – related to legal land tenure and free, informed, prior consentĪ number of areas have been strengthened:.
Measuring workplace impact – a set of common industry indicators to measure improvements in the workplace.
Responsible recruitment (under Regular Employment) – Making recruitment practices more transparent – including migrant, agency and other recruitment practices.
Universal Rights (Clause 0.A) – an introduction but not a replacement for a full Human rights assessment.
The updated protocol has received extensive input from AIM-PRORESS to reflect evolving member requirements for assurance from suppliers on important new topics, including: This will become the standard SMETA methodology as of 1st June 2017. The long-awaited SMETA 6.0 audit protocol has now been published by Sedex. Mutual Recognition - New SMETA 6.0 audit protocol