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"At tier one production site level we have a baseline ethical audit programme in place to ensure all sites comply with our standards. These audits must be conducted by a recognised third party company. The results determine if we
will approve a site for production of John Lewis Partnership own brand products, or allow production to continue. If a new factory is proposed that doesn't meet our minimum requirements, it has six months to make improvements suggested by the auditor before they can be proposed again."
Audits conducted by an independent company to take away bias.
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"For some of our smaller, specialist suppliers, which are often unique and artisan in nature, we recognise that a full ethical audit is not appropriate. In 2018
we piloted a bespoke self-assessment tool which gave us better insight into the way these businesses operate, and where there might be risks requiring management. In 2019, and in the future, the self-assessment questionnaire and visits to suppliers of this nature will be carried out more regularly."
Get smaller suppliers to fill out self-assessment questionnaires and has visits to suppliers to make sure they are following the rules.
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"At tier one production sites, demonstration of compliance to the RSCOP is initially undertaken through completion of the SEDEX self-assessment questionnaire."
Further proof they do use self reporting to see if the suppliers are complying with the laws and regulations both as audits and on site.
All evidence presented above on page 14 refers to "Assessing Risk".
Risk Management information is contained on page 17 (evidence for this metric taken only from their general merchandise section). See below:
Site visits independent: We run a programme which requires sites to have an independent audit every two years (p.17)
Audits (self-reporting): Self-assessment questionnaires (SAQ): Where the order value at
an own-brand tier one production site is less than £25,000 per annum an audit is generally not required. In these instances, the factory will be required to complete a selfassessment questionnaire (p.17)
Independent audits: In these instances, the factory will be required to complete a self assessment questionnaire which will be risk assessed by our third party independent auditor. (p. 17)
Site visits (self-reporting): no evidence so I have unchecked it.