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Facility Assessments Beyond Tier 1
Does the company disclose that the scope of supplier assessments goes beyond first tier facilities?
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About the data

Audits represent a snapshot in time at a particular supplier facility and can help companies understand if suppliers are complying with their labour and environmental standards. Audits can be used to monitor ongoing compliance with a company's standards where risks are deemed high and issues have been raised.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company publicly discloses that the scope of facility assessments goes beyond tier 1 facilities. Start by looking for a description of if and how the company conducts supply chain audits or other forms of supplier assessment.

Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company websites
- In Modern Slavery Statement or California Transparency Act disclosure
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Audit
- Factory visit/Assessment
- Supplier Compliance
- Social Compliance
- Assessment
- Monitoring
- Measurement or Performance Standards
- Off-site interview

Things to watch out for:
- Good place to look for section 4 questions might be a company's Modern Slavery Statement or if they publish their Know The Chain response as well as their annual report.
- Facility-level assessment processes are typically audits
- "Beyond tier 1 facilities" would be tier 2/3/4 etc, by which we mean processing facilities, textile mills, laundries and dye houses, suppliers of raw materials, farms, tanneries