Dear Anagha,
I think this is one of the questions or Quiries i received when i was working as a Social Complaince Auditor. As some of the CITEHR friends added so many coments and advices to visit few related websites, hope you got the full information on the Complaince methodology.
I have 150+ audit experience for different Apparel, Textile, Footwear, Pharmaceuticals, Toys and other industries. For different brands like Nike, Reebok, Wal-Mart, Redcats, Carrefour, K-Mart, Tesco, Chicos, Quicksilver, Oshcosh, Coco Cola India and sooo on.
It is mandatory these days after the senario of Post 9/11 attack on World Trade Center. The USA Customs also demanding to comply C-TPAT(Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism).
All the importers at USA signed their Home Land Social and Security policies. With this as per the importer's CSR-Corporate Social Responsibility all the suppliers and sub-suppliers should abide by their Code of Conduct and Ethical Laws. The ethical certifications like WRAP, ETI, SA 8000, BSCI will solve this. But if we think as an indian it is very unfortunate that the USA importers are commanding us to follow their COC and our own laws. Most of the time during the audit i always discuss this issue with the factory management that the indian laws are far better than any other country and it is a shame that we are not following. for example one of the 9 policies that WRAP or SA 8000 speaks about is Health and Safety. The indian laws says that every two months the facility should conduct Mock Evacuation drill to make all the employees aware of the fire safety during the time of emergency. And as i said this is very unfortunate that the factory does not follow the law and the compliance auditor will defenetly will raise a Non-Conformity during the auidt.
Please open the attached file for detailed check list for self assessment for the status of the factory as on date.
I wish all the best for the Audit and if you need further information please mail me at [Login to view] or contact me at +91 9966389639