Suppliers evaluated as being ‘high risk’ against the Fundamental Principles (mandatory requirements) of our RSP are required to undergo a third-party verification of their procedures and practices. For production item suppliers, this includes an on-site audit providing us with key insights into the practices within our supply chain and identifying where the risks exist and where the actual findings indicate issues that require remediation. We evaluate these results to find the endemic issues to help guide our capacity building and training work to address these issues in a more concerted manner.5
Our audit process is supplemented by Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) and our work with others, either bilaterally with our suppliers or through industry or other multi-stakeholder initiatives. HRIAs are carried out by independent expert organisations who visit a representative sample of our own operations, our suppliers and other business partners. After each HRIA, the external expert organisation writes a report with key findings and suggested ways of addressing them.6
. We
conducted shadow audits to understand how auditors
were identifying issues related to recruitment fees
and passport retention and will carry out further
auditor training at the end of February 2020.8