The adoption of a social management system (SMS) is intended to enable an
organization to build an engaged workforce and sustainable workplace; to meet the customers’ social compliance requirements and improves the control of supply chain.
The effectiveness of an organization’s social management system can evaluated against the requirements of the SA 8000 standard and applicable national legislation by means of an audit. A competently conducted internal audit can help to improve social performance and identify opportunities for improvement in social management system.
This course develops the necessary skills to assess and report on the conformance and effectiveness of its implementation based on SA 8000. You’ll learn how to initiate an audit, prepare and conduct audit activities, compile and distribute audit reports and complete follow-up activities.
How will I benefit?
This course will help you:
- Prepare, conduct, report and follow-up on SA 8000 audit activities
- Identify and apply the benefits and requirements of an SA 8000 audit
- Gain the skills to assess an organization’s capability to manage its SMS
- Write factual audit reports and suggest corrective actions.
Who should attend?
Anyone involved in the planning, implementing, maintaining, supervising, or auditing of SA 8000 Social Management System.
This includes those:
- Tasked to carry out internal audits
- Appointed to organise the SA8000 audit programme
- Tasked to guide other internal auditors.
What will I learn?
You will learn about:
- The guidelines of management system auditing according to ISO 19011:2018
- The application of these guidelines to auditing SA 8000, and have the skills to:
- Initiate the audit
- Prepare audit activities
- Conduct audit activities
- Prepare and distribute the audit report
- Complete the audit
- Audit follow up
What's included?
On completion, you will be awarded an internationally recognized BSI Training Academy certificate.
Prerequisites
It is recommended that participants have knowledge of the SA8000 standard and local regulations on labour and the employment acts prior to attendance of this course. If not, we strongly recommend you attend our SA 8000 Requirements training course.
HRD Corp Claimable Course
This training course is HRD Corp claimable programme.
