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Methodology
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